Greek national team: Larentzakis knocked out by Holland, question mark for Papagiannis

With… the right hand entered the new era our national team, which in the debut of Vassilis Spanoulis on the “blue and white” bench beat the Czech Republic in the packed SEF, at the premiere of the EuroBasket 2025 qualifiers.

Now, the representative group of our country turns its attention to the away game against the Netherlands next Monday (26/02) for the second matchday of the qualifying groups.

From the game in The Hague will be absent Thomas Walkup, Kostas Papanikolaou and Dinos Mitoglou so that they can take a breath, three players who were excellent in yesterday’s match and helped significantly in getting the pink match sheet.

From then on, he was knocked out Giannoulis Larentzakis, who, although he played against the Czech Republic, is still suffering from a meniscus problem, so the decision was made to protect him.

At the same time, doubtful is given o George Papagiannis, with the Fener center having a muscle spasm in the left adductor, as a result of which he underwent an MRI scan, which in the next few hours will show the exact problem he is facing.

Everything shows, therefore, that Naz Mitrou-Long will make his debut as a natural, while Michalis Luntzis, Lefteris Mantzoukas and Vangelis Zougris will also enter the dozen.