Greece-Italy: Last friendly test on Greek soil for the National Team

Its third friendly match as part of its preparation for the upcoming World Cup is tonight (19:45, ERT, News Bulletin 247, sport-fm.gr) in OAKA against Italy the National us, on the third and last day of the tournament Aegean Acropolis!

After the two consecutive victories against Slovenia, the “blue and white” were defeated two twenty-four hours ago with 71-64 by Serbia, in a match with enough elements of an official match, suitable for useful conclusions.

His team Dimitris Itoudis trailed for most of the game, found itself trailing by as much as 15 points in the 3rd quarter, came close to turning it around going into the “final stretch”, but ultimately lost in the final 71-64. In this particular game, our national team showed positive elements in defense, but also presented offensive weaknesses, which they must… cover in tonight’s game. The leader for our National Team against Serbia was Rogavopoulos, with 19 points, while Papapetrou also had a good performance, in his first match after the shoulder injury.

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Kostas Papanikolaou is expected to remain out tonight as well, so that he can fully overcome his own minor injury problem, while Giannis, Kostas Antetokounmpo remain out as well, with their participation in the World Cup remaining doubtful.

On the other hand, Italy started with a marginal victory (89-88) against Serbia in their Acropolis commitments, while tonight they will look for 2/2. Ponceco’s team had Fontecchio (13 points), Spagnolo (12 points) and Polonnara (11 points) as the leaders in the match, while Luigi Datome was injured in the first half and did not play afterwards.

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Italy are coming off three consecutive friendly wins so far (they also won against Turkey and China) and will be in Group 1 of the World Cup alongside Angola, the Dominican Republic and the Philippines.

Italy’s roster:



Spisu, Tonut, Meli, Fontecchio, Ricci, Spagnolo, Caruso, Polonara, Diouf, Severini, Prosida, Voldetense, Paiola, Datome.