2023-06-18 23:04:45
Aware that a defeat would eliminate him from Eurobasket, Spain controlled Greece on the last day of the first phasewith more brilliance in the first part and more suffering but a great Queralt Casas in the second, and achieved a victory that allows him to finish in first position of group A and qualify directly for the quarterfinals, without having to go through the round of 16.
The meeting started with both teams daring and successful in attack. The points from Pinelopi Pavlopoulou, who added nine of the first fourteen of his team, allowed Greece to compensate for the Spanish dominance inside, with Raquel Carrera as the stiletto. When it seemed that Miguel Méndez’s men were going to break through with their choral play, Mariella Fasoula and Spanou appeared to balance (20-18, m.10).
On the first play of the second quarter, his shoulder popped out. María Conde, who did not play again and broke the coach’s usual rotation. But the scoring appearance of Cristina Ouviña, with nine points almost in a row, and Leo Rodríguez brightened the defensive improvement of the Spanish, with Queralt Casas and Raquel Carrera making every rival action difficult (33-20, m.16).
Seeing that the game could be lost for good, Greece made an effort first to stop the Spanish escalation and then to close the gap and they succeeded (35-27, m.20).
As it happened before Montenegro, Spain she returned asleep after the break and Méndez had to call an early timeout to try to redirect a script that Tsineke had destroyed with his shots.
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The appearance of Carrera in both baskets and a couple of actions by the daring Queralt Casas allowed the most difficult minutes to pass without Greece managing to tie, despite the fact that he came within two points on several occasions (55-49, m.30).
The bad moment seemed to have passed, but Spain did not take off and Casas had to appear again with two long shots to give him the necessary cushion so that the risk of being eliminated would not seize the team in the final stretch and allow them a placid end to the game, something to which an omnipresent Carrera contributed again and which allowed Lola Pendande to debut in the tournament.
Spain, 76 – Greece, 60
Spain (20+15+20+21): Cazorla (8), Casas (16), Torrens (7), Gil (9), Carrera (14) – starting five – Conde (2), Domínguez (1), Ginzo (4), Ouviña (12), Rodríguez ( 3) and Pendant (-).
Greece (18+9+22+11): Pavlopoulou (13), Stamalamprou (1), Christinaki (2), Spanou (14), Fasoula (10) -cinco titular- Alexandri (3), Bosgana (2), Diela (-), Karlafti (-), Sotiriou ( 8), Stamati (-) y Tsineke (7).
Referees: Györgyi (ROM), Proc (POL) and Gracin (CRO). Sin eliminadas.
Incidences: match corresponding to the third day of the initial phase of Eurobasket 2023 played at the Tel Aviv Arena in Israel before about a hundred spectators.
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