He bowed to upper France and now preparing for the final with Turkey the National

The National Women’s Basketball Team bowed to the superiority of France.

After an excellent first half where he looked at the “tricolor” and for some details he did not take a lead in the locker room“Blue -White” was unable to follow the frantic rhythm of the French In the second half, with Greece knowing defeat with heavy 92-56 in the SEF For the 2nd match of the group phase.

The statistics that made the big difference and raised the scales overwhelming in favor of the typical guests was the percentage of three -pointwith France shooting with the amazing 63.4% with 12/19 shots behind 6.75m. and our national team has only 4/20 (20%).

Now, our country’s representative complex is called the Next Saturday (21/06, 20:30) to give a qualifying final against Turkeywith both teams tie 1-1 and the winner getting the coveted ticket for the Eurobasket quarter -finals 2025!

For Greece, who wrote history and broke the record of arrival in a National Women’s Race In our country since 2004 with a total of 8,860 spectators, the distinguished Artemis Spanou with 14 points and 5 rebounds, with the Mariella Fasula (11p, 4p) and Robin Park (7p, 7p, 2s.) Follow in performance.

For the winners, the top of all was the Lounge with 17 points (5/6 tr.) and 5 rebounds, with the Toure and Rubert add from 15 and 14 points respectively.

The match:

Quite balanced was the start of the match, with the Our national team To be fully concentrated on the chef’s parquet, giving huge emphasis on her inhibitory duties. It is characteristic that in the first five minutes of the match, he forced the France to be in three errorswith the “blue -white” completing two steals! The typical hosts had the upper hand in the scoring from the start of the match, thanks mainly to Toure’s excellent appearance with 9 points in the quarter. At the same time, Greece remained close to scoring, constantly targeting the rival racket and with the awesome Foggy and Span They had six points each, overpowered for the first time for 12-10 and a little later with Park’s three-pointer For 15-13 in 6 minutes!

We have said it before …
This duo is all we need ??#Eurobasketwomen x @Hellenicbf pic.twitter.com/9ojxyctfkb

– Fiba Women’s Eurobasket (@eurobasketwomen) June 19, 2025

At that point, the ‘Trikolor’ They improved their image in the defense, allowing our national team just two points in the last four minutes and even shots at Spanu, at the same time where those with a shot behind 6.75m. From Salon and Toure, they closed the First period at +4 for 21-17.

The representative complex of our country had an explosive Three minutes at the beginning of the second period! Where thanks to her big three -point Booscanin her shots Pavlopoulou and her two -point PARKSran a quick 7-0 series for our favor 24-21 at 13 ‘! France’s reaction came from the district, with the typical home side finding three three -pointers within two minutesovertaking in the score and Writing 34-28 in the middle of the quarter.

In fact, shortly thereafter, with Ayiagi’s basket, France even went to +7 (36-29), with Pavlopoulou then giving a huge aggressive breath to the blue-white shot behind 6.75m for 36-32. The baton was taken by Spanou and Fasoula, with the first scoring with a terrific goal-to-go and the second an excellent basket after posting, reducing to 40-37 at 19 ‘. Somewhere there, however, three consecutive errors in the Greek attack gave France the opportunity to find easy points in the transition and if they closed the first half ahead. with +7 for 44-37.

Enough nervous was the start in the second halfwith both teams making mistakes and failing on many shots, which resulted in the individual score in the first 2.5 minutes at 1-1! As time went on, France turned on both ends of the parquet, Petros Preca’s team to “stick” aggressively, with just 3 points and those from shots in the first five minutes of the periodthus finding back to Score 53-40. It is characteristic that the first “blue -white” basket came at 4:16 before the end of the quarter by Fasula for 53-43. The awesome and awesome Loungewith two back-to-back three-pointers raised the difference to 59-43, with France continuing with the foot pressed … in the throttle and closing the period at +19 and 64-47 with a score of 20-10.

Like that, the Fourth and last period acquired a procedural character with Greece obviously frustrated not be able to unite the situation and “groan” the difference. As a result, France was constantly raising the difference, even reaching at +36, finally celebrating the win with the final 92-56. An indication of the national image was that in the second half he scored just 19 points and conceded 48, while in the first quarter he scored 17 points!

The quarters: 21-17, 44-37, 64-47, 92-56.

See the statistics of the race here.