Hellenic-Pimarros, broke the quarter-final barrier and nothing stops it from the dream!

He spent the … curse of the quarterfinals and left for the medal zone by Greece!

Performing a dominant and passionate appearance from start to finale, National like… torrent seduced Lithuania In the “Xiaomi Arena” of Riga, Latvia, celebrating a Historical victory with a score of 87-76 In the quarter -finals of Eurobasket 2025 and Shout that he was going for a medal!

His team Vasilis Spanoulis Read the game excellently, control the rebounds that were the big “weapon” of the Lithuanians and with Leader once again John Antetokounbos closed a position on the semifinals of the European Championship for the first time in 16 years!

THE ‘Greek Freak’ Finished the match with 29 points (9/15 shots), 6 rebounds, 2 assists and 4 steals, with Vasilis Toliopoulos Make his best match in the tournament with 17 points (6/8 shots)! Shocking were also Kostas Papanikolaou (8p, 7p, 3rd.), Kostas Sloukas (11p, 4p, 4s.), But also the Costas Antetokounbos (4p, 3rd, 2nd., 4block), with the latter having the best +/- of all national!

Now, the next obstacle of “Official Favorite” to the final is The Turkey of Ergkin Atamanwith the semifinals being scheduled For Friday (12/09)!

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The match:

OR Our national She started with her classic “Recipe”, with Slouka, Dorsey, Papanikolaou, Mitoglou and Yiannis Antetokounbos in its original five, with Lithuania To select a tall shape on its part. Greece started the game in defense and attack, with our opponents taking advantage of their size and with Valancionas leading a 7-0 lead. Its representative complex Our country … broke the pomegranate after 2:40 racing minutes with a basket of Johnbefore “Greek Freak” with four more points, plus two of Mitoglou, reduce to 9-8 in the five minutes.

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Then Veltska and Mitoglou exchanged three-pointers (12-11), for the Sloukas and with a acrobatic leap to give the first “blue -white” lead for 12-13 in the 7th minute. At that point, the Greek… machine got ahead, with Costa Antetokounbos to “cover” the baskets and to asak the Lithuanians With 2 plugs (!)at a time when Dorsey and Toliopoulos with apt shots behind 6.75m and John With five more personal points (11 in the quarter) closing the period for ‘Official Favorite’ At +5 and 24-19!

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With Senteckeskis’ three -pointer started the second quarterwith Toliopoulos responding with the … same currency and Papanikolaou then with two points from the line of shots writing 29-22 at 12 ‘. Interval in which the Costas Antetokounbos distributed two more majestic plugs, Being the fear and terror of the Lithuanians near the racket! Greece’s aggressive crescendo continued with two big three -pointers by Slouka and Samondurov, launching the difference to +11 for 35-24 two minutes later.

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After the five minutes, the representative band of our country lost a little bit of his clear mind, as there were no good distances and the right choices in the attack. At the same time, with the spearhead of the Valansiuan and its dynamics in the low post, Rima Curtinitis’ team “rooted” the difference, Reduce to Pontus (38-39) At 1:25 ‘before halftime. And while everything seemed to be the two teams to go to the locker room with a little difference, came Toliopoulos’s tripod and the foul on the same phase on Kostas and the renewal of the national attack with him, with Giannis to complete the “Pentapon” with lovely fade away, closing the half time with the Score at 44-38! Significant statistics in the first half, just two offensive rebounds in Lithuania, but also 13-2 in favor of Greece in the open court.

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With … problems started the third quarteras, in less than a minute, John was charged with his third foul and Mitoglou reached 4 personally with two gathered. In which Valancias reduced to 41-44 with 3/4 shots, before Yiannis, Sloukas and Kostas Antetokounbos with a 7-0 score in three minutes, send the difference to double digits for the 51-41 at 24 ‘.

Thanks to the excellent and offensive “blue -white” defense, the Lithuanians managed to score a score after 4.5 minutes with the shots of Sargouna, with Dorsey and Slouka responding with their own series from the charity line. For 55-43 at 27 ‘. ‘Lietua’ needed seven whole minutes on the period to find her first basket Inside, at a time when Papanikolaou with a three -point lead in the next attack sent the difference for the first time at +13 and 58-43. In the last part of the season, the typical hosts found a bit of an aggressive pace scoring with pluralism, with Greece, however, having the “answers” and with Toliopoulos, Kostas and Yiannis Antetokounbos, closing the quarter. at +12 and 64-52.

With psychology heights, “Official Favorite” entered the Fourth and last period! With Vasilis Toliopoulos to take responsibilities on him and score 4 points, with his three -pointer Papanikolaou But also the magical assist of the leader in the nail of Samondurov, Greece preceded With +16 for 73-57 at 34 ‘!

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A difference that Lithuania has never been able to overthrow, since ‘Greek Freak’ with seven points kept the distance at two -digit prices For 82-71 at 39 ‘! Despite the baskets of Gentraitis and Radzevici, Sloukas and Yiannis were cool from the line of shots in the finale and Greece got the historic pink sheet of match with the final 87-76!

The quarters: 19-24, 38-44, 52-64, 76-87.

See the statistics of the race here.