Greece, with their souls and leaders Avdala and Samondurov, threw out Finland and left for octave!

The National Young Men’s Qualifying U20 Qualifying in the Eurobasket U20 Wednesday night (16/07)!

Kostas Papadopoulos’ team prevailed hard with Score 85-78 of the Finland Fighter In the indoor gym of New Bodrum, thus getting the ticket for the octave of the event and continuing its course to the medal zone!

After a balanced first half, our country’s representative band pressed “Gazi” in the third quarter, where it reached +15. However, the guests not only did not hand over … weapons, but reduced to the middle of the fourth and last period, with Greece to deposit soul and quality in the parquet in critical last minutes And to get the coveted pink sheet.

Top for the ‘blue whites’ was the Neocles with 23 points, 8 assists and 7 rebounds, with the Alexander Samondurov Follow up with 20 points (5/14 shots, 10/14b), and 9 rebounds. Valuable solutions still gave the Stefanos Spartalis (11p, 6p), Lefteris Liotopoulos (11p, 5p) and the Andreas Patrikis (6p, 6p, 2s.). For the Finns, the one stood out Elmeri Abby with 22 points, 7 rebounds and 8 assists.

Now, our national team is waiting for her opponent to find out at tomorrow’s quarter -finals (17/07, 18:00) later, who will come from her clash France with Belgium.

The match:

In the best possible way the game started for the Our national team, which thanks to Touliatos’ three -pointer and the two -pointers of Abdala and Spartal, preceded with 7-1 in the first three minutes. The sequel was not proportional, since, the dynamic game of Finnish, In conjunction with our own offensive failure, they allowed the guests to Reduce to 8-7 in the 6th minute, scoring only with shots! With a quick 6-0 series, Finland went ahead for the first time in the match, Making it 13-10 a minute later, Before, the “blue -white” reaction comes and with an outburst in the last two -minute hand Liotopoulos and PardonGreece, closed the first period At +4 and 19-15thanks to the great buzzer beater tripod of the 19 -year -old former Peristeri guard.

With Alexander Samondurov To get into the equation of the race and score his first points, the representative band of our country led 23-17, At the beginning of the second quarter. Nevertheless, whenever our national team went to escape, Finland was “present”, remaining in the game. With Abi and Amzil finding the way to the Greek basket, the whole of Miko Toupamaki, reduced to Pontus (25-24) to 14 ‘, with them Lobby and Paraskevopoulos respond with two shots behind 6.75m, For +7 and 31-24two minutes later. The guests, however, proved to be “hard nuts” and Harry in their Physical Game, remained close to scoring, with the two teams going to the locker room with the score at 37-33.

Quite different was the scenery in the third quarterwith Kostas Papadopoulos’ players “cleaning up” their minds in the respite and getting quite dynamically in the second half on both sides of the parquet. With them Neocles and Alexander Samondurov to lead in the offensive side, closing the period with 7 and 8 points respectively, Greece managed to dominate the match perfectly and with one impressive 13-1 series Within four minutes, to launch the difference At +15 and 54-39 in 27 ‘! With a quick 9-0 series, Finland reduced to six (54-48) a minute later, however, Samondurov and Avdala with a two-point one and one excellent defense each closed the period at +10 and 58-48 for our National.

In the fourth and final periods, Finland played its last .. paper. With lasting counterattack and big Abi, Lindberg and Amzil shots, Reduce to Pontus for 69-68 in the 35th minute. Despite the loss of +15, our national team did not lose its concentration and With pluralism in attack and large defenses, He managed to build a safety difference until the final, with Samondurov winning a surprising nail for 80-72 in 39 ‘, essentially locking the victory. A victory, which eventually came with the final 85-78.

The quarters: 19-15, 37-33, 58-48, 85-78.

See the statistics of the race here.