Continuation of the duties for the “official sweetheart”. OR Greece welcomes her M. Britain (18:30, ERT3, NovaSports 4, sport-fm.gr, News Bulletin 247) in Pylaia for the 4th matchday of the qualifiers Eurobasket 2025looking for… revenge for the defeat in London two days ago.
In fact, he can now secure qualification for Eurobasket with a win over her of Great Britain combined with her defeat Netherlands at its headquarters from Czech Republic. In addition, the roster will be slightly different compared to the previous match, since in Thessaloniki Vassilis Spanoulis will have the Kostas Papanikolaou, Giannoulis Larentzakis and Panagiotis Kalaitzakis.
The first two completed their obligations with him Olympic for the Euroleague and despite the day off until Monday given by George Bartzokaswill strengthen the Greek team. The third played on Friday (22/11) with Panathinaikos in Kaunas against Zalgiris and after the return of the mission’s charter, he flew to Thessaloniki. On the contrary, off the roster will be the Vassilis Mouratos, Lefteris Mantzoukas and Stelios Poulianitisin relation to the dozen of the first game, where the Greek team lost 73-72. Knocked out due to injury o Antonis Karagiannidiswhose place is taken in the dozen o George Tanoulis.
It is noted that the National Airlines mission landed in Thessaloniki shortly after 1:30 on Saturday morning, on a charter flight from Athensas there was a new departure delay due to bad weather. It was preceded by the more than five hour delay of the departure of the flight from London due to security issues at Gatwick Airport.
The referees of the match will be Manuel Mazzoni (Italy), Vencislav Velikov (Bulgaria) and Sinisa Prpa (Serbia).
The group score:
The schedule for the 4th matchday:
Netherlands-Czech Republic (24/11, 16:00)
Greece-Great Britain (24/11, 18:30)
The remaining games
Czech Republic-Greece (21/2)
Netherlands-Great Britain (21/2)
Greece-Netherlands (24/2)
Great Britain-Czech Republic (24/2)
The tradition
Greece and Great Britain have met at Men’s level twelve times in the past, five of them in the “window” process. The Greek team has nine wins.
The first meeting took place in 1984 at the Pre-Olympic Tournament in Paris and the second four years later again in a pre-Olympic tournament, this time in Rotterdam. Four friendlies followed in Heraklion, Patras and London, before the “windows” came into our lives, specifically the four matches for the World Cup qualifiers.
In November 2017, Greece won 95-92 in Leicester with the game-winning 3-pointer by Yiannis Athenaios. This was followed by a 75-70 win over Heraklion in February 2018 and a 78-69 loss to Great Britain in Newcastle. In the last meeting of the two teams before this year’s “windows”, the Greek team won easily 93-71 in Larissa.
Previous matches in detail:
Pre-Olympic Tournament 05/20/1984 (Paris), Greece-M. Britain 104-106
Pre-Olympic Tournament 07/06/1988 (Rotterdam), Greece-M. Britain 101-72
Friendly Match 08/08/2013 (Heraklion), Greece-M. Britain 95-62
Friendly Match 08/08/2017 (Patra), Greece-M. Britain 92-64
Friendly Match 18/08/2017 (London), Greece-M. Britain 72-68
Friendly Match 19.08.2017 (London), Greece-M. Britain 88-84
World Cup Qualifiers 24/11/2017 (Leicester), Greece-M. Britain 95-92
World Cup Qualifiers 02/25/2018 (Heraklion), Greece-M. Britain 75-70
World Cup Qualifiers 25/11/2021 (Newcastle), Greece-M. Britain 69-78
World Cup Qualifiers 30/06/2022 (Larissa), Greece-M. Britain 93-71
Eurobasket Group Stage 05/09/2022 (Milan), Greece-M. Britain 93-77
EuroBasket Qualifiers 21/11/2024 (London), Greece-M. Britain 72-73
Source: Sport Fm
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