Luca Vildoza set to return for Panathinaikos vs. Barcelona / News - Basketnews.com

Luca Vildoza has reportedly overcome the knee injury that kept him sidelined for a month and will return to action in Panathinaikos' home game vs. Barcelona on Friday.

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Panathinaikos AKTOR Athenscame through Belgrade defeating Red Star 89-76, thus rising to 3rd place in the EuroLeague standings.

Luca Vildoza

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After the end of the game, Ergin Ataman addressed the injury problems in the team and the absences ofLuca Vildoza and Kostas Antetokounmpo, stressing that it is not easy for him to constantly rely on a short rotation.

"We played with 6 players. We had no help from the bench today. Except for [Kostas] Sloukas, who came off the bench and gave a lot of help. I hope that will change in the next few games," the Turkish coach stressed.

"We are missing 2 important players in the rotation, like Antetokounmpo and Vildoza and they will help us because it is not easy to play with 6-7 players all the time."

However, it seems that Vildoza is close to his comeback. According to SDNA, the Argentinian guardwill return to practice on Thursday with the view to making the 12-man squad for the Round 31 contest against FC Barcelona on Friday night.

Vildoza has been out of action for about a month, since he was ruled out before the Greek Cup with a knee injury.

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