The Youth National Team defeated Iceland and “flew” for the quarter-finals!

The qualification to EuroBasket U20 quarterfinals celebrated the National Youth on Wednesday night (12/07), winning hard with 83-75 of the fighting Iceland in “Two Aorakia” of Heraklion!

With “ally” her polyphony on offense, as five players had double-digit points, but also thanks to the excellent executive second half, the “blue and white” reached the pink match sheet and is now waiting to find out her opponent in the “8” that will result from the pair Turkey-Montenegro. The match will take place at 18:30 or 21:00.

The first scorer for our national team was Sotiris Economopoulos with 18 points, with Zougri (17p., 12r.) and Manjuka (16p., 9p.) to perform another excellent performance in the event. Valuable help was also given by Basin (12p.) and Floating (10 p.).

The match



Her start was quite nervous of our national team, with the Icelanders taking advantage of it and with consecutive three-pointers taking the lead with 12-5 in 4′. With Zougri, Mantzouka and Oikonomopoulos finding solutions in the offensive part, Greece went ahead (20-19) in the 9th minute, with the quarter ending in tie and 24-24.

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With two consecutive three-pointers by Bazina and Kalaitzakis, the second period began, with the “blue and white” taking the lead for the first time in the match with +2 (30-28) at 13. However, Iceland continued to make it difficult for our representative group and with them Gunnarson and Atlas to lead the offensive part, went to the dressing room in front in the score with 45-41.

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The scenery is completely different third quarter, with Greece taking out energy and tension on both ends of the floor. Thanks to their excellent defense – 5 steals in as many first minutes of the quarter – our National team ran an impressive 14-0 run for the +11 and 63-52 at 26′! All the Icelanders could do was cut short with a 3-pointer by Kiardasson for the 65-56 of the quarter.

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At the beginning of the fourth and last period, Greece raised the difference up to +15 (74-59), showing that it “cleans up” the case of victory. Somewhere there, a relaxation occurred, as a result of which the Icelanders came back and with a 10-0 run reduced it to 4 (78-74), two minutes before the final. In the remaining time, our national team made good defenses and, with a focus on attack, reached victory and qualification with final 83-75.

The quarters: 24-24, 41-45, 65-56, 83-75.