He shone on the chef by crushing Switzerland and showed the hard for the difficult!

The premiere of the National Women’s Basketball Team at Eurobasket 2025 was impressive and highly promising!

On Wednesday night (18/06), the “blue whites” made an excellent appearance throughout the race and thanks to its unlikely defense and pluralism in the attack, crushed with 87-65 Switzerland SThe Faliro Stadium, in its first game in the group phase!

His team Petrou Preca She made tremendous energy and tension in the parquet, dominating her opponent in all statistical categories. Characteristic was the fact that Greece finished the match with 27 assists and 13 steals, getting 21 points on the open court!

The top scorer for our representative band to face France tomorrow (19/06, 20:30) for the second race, was the Mariella Fasula With 21 points, 6 rebounds and 4 assists. Excellent solutions gave the Robin Park (14p, 6p), the Helen Bosgan (14p, 5p), the Eleanna Christinaki (12p, 3rd.), But also the leader, Artemis Spanou With 6 points, 5 rebounds, 6 assists and 4 steals!

The match:

Excellent was the start of her Our national teamwhich was fully concentrated on both ends of the parquet, imposing its own pace early. With a clear disposition and targeting to hit the “painter” and supply Fasula, the “blue-white” led 11-2 and shortly thereafter with 13-4 in the first 4 minutes, thanks to the 4 points of the Greek center and 5 from Christinakis!

From the middle of the period onwards, the Switzerland He overcame the original shock and began to “bomb” the Greek basket with a shot behind 6.75m. With the Schwarch and Erminethe guests not only reduced the difference, but also managed to pass the score with 17-16 and 19-16 in the 9th minute, before the Booscan with one shot and the Hajjileon with a nice middle distance basket, write 19-19 of the period.

With its “weapon” its terribly aggressive and pressing defense, Peter Preca’s team made a stunning second quarter, in which it capitalized its racing superiority. With Park’s two-pointer and stealing and lean from Crimele to surprise, Greece made it 23-19 in the first seconds of the period, with the Swiss calling a time-out immediately. Somewhere there, they came forward PARKS and the Helen Bosgan With the first scoring five points and the second one … dressed Curry, Clark and Ionescu together and with 9 points from 3 three -pointers (!), Greece fired the difference At +15 and 41-26 in the 16th minute!

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In the final minutes of the first half, the National managed perfectly in favor of the result, kept the Swiss low on the score, at the same time that she took advantage of the team fouls, finding easy points from the line of shots. So, with Fasula and Spanu stand out in the finale, Greece went to the locker room with its 46-32!

The half -minute break did not change the image of the match at all, with the “blue -white” having the first and last word in the chef’s parquet and in the third quarter. In front of nearly 6,900 fans, National continued with the foot pressed on … Gazi and Robin Park and Mariella Fasula In the lead role executive with the first to score 5 points and the second 4, For +18 for 57-39 in 25 ‘! It was noteworthy that Greece Keep Switzerland at zero for more than 4.5 minutes (!), Thanks to the terrible defenses and the exuberant appearance of its leader, Artemis Spanou!

The guests were unable to follow Greece’s high tempo and the offensive defense from our athletes, who completed the season with 5 steals! In the last two minutes, Five Points of Crimele, sent the difference for the first time to +21 (62-41), before Bosgana from the line of the shots form 64-44 of the quarter.

Like that, the fourth and last periodit became a procedural nature, as the victory case had already been judged by the excellent first 30 minutes of our national team. Even so, our representative band not only did not turn turns, but even reached +24 on three occasions, fasting the finale with victory with The impressive 87-65!

The quarters: 19-19, 46-32, 64-44, 87-65.

See the statistics of the race here.