The Women’s National Basketball team was defeated but left promises in Germany

He fought bravely, but was defeated at Germany or Women’s national basketball team.

Despite setting a high standard of performance and being highly competitive throughout the match held in The Hague, fighting for victory until the final seconds, the ‘blue and white’ eventually lost narrowly 79-76falling to 1-2 in her group for the Eurobasket 2025 qualifiers.

We remind you that our national team plays without the stress of qualifying, since it has a guaranteed presence in the final phase of the competition that will be held in our country and in SEF, next June. Next match for our national team next Sunday (10/11, 14:45) in Chalkida, against Italy.

Leading for the “blue and white” in the match are Chineke (23p), Beans (20pts, 5 rebs, 3 assists) and Spanu (17 points, 12 rebounds), while for Germany the first scorer was Gelich, with 16 points and 14 rebounds.

The match started with our national team entering the court strongly and leading 11-5, before the home team found their footing, equalizing at 12-12 and 19-19 with the end of the first period with a three-pointer by Schiffer, even though our national team had earlier found itself at +6 again (13-19).

The German women took the lead for the first time after the initial 3-2, with our national team remaining without a basket for almost two minutes and giving their opponent the right to build a streak that reached 15-0, escaping with 28-19. However, with the protagonists of Fasoula and Tsineke, the “blue and white” got closer to 35-29, while Spanou formed the 39-35 of the first half.

The home team kept their small lead after the two teams returned from the locker room, until Gelich came to make it 49-41 with a well-timed three-pointer, but Chineke continued to… pull the paddle aggressively for our National Team, keeping the close to the score until and the 58-53 of the third quarter.

Greece remained highly competitive in the fourth quarter, getting within a point (60-59) thanks to a short 6-1 run with 5 points from Spanou, before the Germans escaped with 71-65 thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers by Berthold, Schiffer and Wilke. The match was a derby until its last seconds, with Chineke giving the lead (75-76) to our National Team with 44” left for the final, but in the end the German women won with the final 79-76.

The quarters: 19-19, 39-35, 58-53, 79-76

The match statistics