Despite the defeat in Vitoria by Laboral with the incredible three-pointer of Bertans in the end, Real holds in luck in their hands and with a simple victory passes to the next phase as 4th. The only scenario that leaves Real out if they win is to lose today Barcelona and Laboral, and tomorrow Olympiakos beats CSKA and somehow in a quadruple tie we will have 3rd Barcelona, 4th Olympiakos and 5th Real but I think it is unlikely that Barcelona will lose to Zalgiris.
In today's match, the Madrilenians who will line up without injury problems will have the first say against the problematic away Kimki who has lost all the away games away from home 2 weeks ago with the excluded Zalgiris in Kaunas.
Although the handicap given to us by the bookies (-6,5) is on the verge of no bet, I believe that Real owes a good performance in the Top 16 and the right moment is in today's match which is do or die.