The “thorn” of the Czech Republic was difficult to get out of her side National us without leaving a trace, and the next test on the way to medals is Germanya good team without big stars that will rely heavily on their home ground to compete against the much stronger blue-whites.
On a night of disappointments and surprises, when Finland beat Croatia, Poland, Ukraine and Italy, Serbia (all three matches ended with the same score, 94-86!), the “official favorite” managed to exorcise the ghosts of the past and beat the team that had hurt them badly as at the previous World Cup and last year’s pre-Olympic game, but of course they can’t stay there. In order to be in the semi-finals and one step closer to the podium, he is invited tonight (21.30) overcome host Germany’s hurdle in the quarter-finals with an additional opponent and the pressure generated by being the favorite.
Both on a team and individual level, our national team is one step ahead of the Germans, but it needs to find the duration and balance in order to maintain the aura of the winner to the end.
It hasn’t had any easy victories so far, although it remains the only undefeated team in the competition. And this difficulty will be useful if it serves as an alarming bell and does not allow complacency, which in these cases is perhaps the biggest enemy.
Our team does not have problems at the last minute. In contrast, the participation of Franz Wagner and Nick Wyler-Babba remains doubtful.
More than 5,000 Greeks are expected to join our team, most of whom will be expats living in Germany and neighboring countries.
Two days of quarter-final and waiting
Today (18.15) the EuroBasket quarter-finals will be opened by the seven of Spain, who survived the duel with Lithuania, and the wonderful Finland Lauri Markkanen, who did not get to Croatia, forcing Stojan Vrankovic to step down from the post of president of the federation. Then at 21.30 there will be a match between our team and Germany, in which the winners of these pairs will meet in the semi-final phase. The other two quarter-finals will take place tomorrow, with the most interesting being the first (18:15) between France and Italy, who surprised by knocking out Serbia. In tomorrow’s other pair, Slovenia’s Lukas Doncic is the clear favorite against Poland, despite the loss of Zoran Dragic to a bicep injury that will keep him out for 6-8 weeks.
Source: Kathimerini
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