Weekly preview: Decisive games coming up this week

This week in EUROHOLD Balkan League offers us three exciting games which are very important for the standings in both groups.

First we have KS Vllaznia hosting KK Kozuv in Shkodra on Tuesday. The home team is still without a win while Kozuv is still without a defeat. This puts the visitors as favourites for this meeting but that doesn′t mean nothing. Vllaznia will surely go hard because this may be one of the team′s last chances to keep its chances for advancing to the next round. Mirza Sarajlija and Nemanja Gavrancic will be expected to lead the home team and will try to make things work. Kozuv from the other side is one of the two unbeaten teams in the competition and the only one in this group. The team is performing very well and has a balanced roster which is playing well. This is what Kozuv will rely on and will be hoping to leave Albania with 4th straight victory.

On Wednesday we have the Montenegrin derby between KK Sutjeska and KK Teodo. Both teams met during the weekend in the local league but in Tivat and Teodo won it. This for sure will add extra incentive to the match and we should be in for a great encounter. The hosts will be eager to take revenge and will try to do so led by Nemanja Vranjes, Nemanja Arsic and Nikola Pavlicevic. On the other side the team from Tivat will count again on Marko Mijovic and Aleksandar Radulovic and they will also need help from the others because for sure the atmosphere will be tough for the visitors.

The last game of the week should be another very very intesting one. In Kumanovo the local team will meet Rilski Sportist in a direct battle for first position in group A. So far the hosts have 2-1 record but have played only one match in their gym. Rilski on the other hand played all three at home and won them, so the team is currently first. For sure both teams will try very hard to get the victory and this is what it should be expected. The hosts rely a lot on the scoring machines - Aleksandar Kostoski and Vukasin Mandic, whose performance will be crucial in the match. The visitors on the other hand will need the experience of Yordan Bozov, Zlatin Georgiev and Tony Gugino for the hard atmosphere there and the energy of Vernon Taylor and Julian Norfleet because it surely will be a hard game for them.