Photo of the day: Italy eliminates Serbia in Basketball, 94-86!

September 14, 2024

Rare in sports History of champions.

Italy of men’s basketball “thinks” and eliminates the number 1 favorites, Serbia, from the European championship! 94-86!!!

It is the round of 16 for the European Basketball Championship – 2022, that is taking place in four weeks: Rep. Czech; Georgia, Germany and Italy Berlin: September 11

Serbia – Italy 86-94

After four parts with these results: 28-20 / 23-25 / 17-21 / 18-28

Italy: Spissu, Tonut, Fontecchio, Polonara, Melli. Mannion, Ricci, Datome, Pajola, Biligha,
Tessitori, Baldasso Tr. : Pozzecco

Serbia: Marinkovic`, Micic, Kalinic, Lucic, Jokic. Jaramaz, Milutinov, Jagodic-Kuridza, Davidovac’, Guduric’, Ristic’ Tr .: Pesic’

A match that “slipped” out of the hands of the Serbian team. A few three-point shots from Spissu mainly but also from Fontecchio, Melli and Datome made the Italian team reach and surpass the Serbian team with a 10-point difference (for a moment in the match) and achieve a victory that will shock the world. the sport of basketball. “We shocked the world”!

These would be the words of Italian trainer Pozzecco at the end of this quite dramatic and interesting meeting due to the course of events. When the Italian trainer is excluded from the management of the team, Italy is currently 4 points behind the Serbian opponent.

From this moment, the “azurret” explode and no one will think that they will be the ones who will win the challenge. No one will bet even a penny for the Italians, but… It will be Spissu, the scorer of Venice, the initiator who will make a series of three points.

From 57-63 the result reaches 66-63. And it’s him again, Spissu, when the score on the electronic scoreboard shows 73-72 at the start of the second half. From this time fragment until the end, it will be Italy that dominates.

In the end, Marco Spissu scored 22 points and played the match of his life. Coach Pozzecco is in tears for this great victory and praises his players. In fact, the emotions are indescribable for this well-deserved success against an opponent that was precisely defeated by their strongest and decisive “weapon”, the three-point shots.

This time, the Italians were more efficient with long shots. Italy is in the quarter-finals against France.

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