From the Finnish group, Serbia, Finland, Poland and, with their victory in the last round, the group host, the Czech Republic, finally advanced in order of superiority.
Finland will face Croatia in the quarterfinals on Sunday. The match will be shown on channels. Playoff start times will be confirmed later.
The playoff pairs for the European Basketball Championships are clear. Finland will face Croatia in the quarterfinals on Sunday.
Finland beat the Netherlands 88–67 in their last group game today. When Serbia, as expected, defeated Poland and took the victory in Group D, Susijeng’s second place in its group was confirmed at the same time.
The other quarterfinal pairings are Serbia-Italy, Ukraine-Poland, Greece-Czech Republic, Germany-Montenegro, Spain-Lithuania, Slovenia-Belgium and Turkey-France.
Below is the final situation of the Finnish group:
If Finland advances to the top eight for the first time in its history, it will face the winner of the match between Spain and Lithuania in the quarterfinals.
Spain won Group A in Tbilisi, Georgia, despite suffering a surprise loss to Belgium.
Lithuania was in trouble in the B group played in Cologne, Germany. Lithuania started with three losses, but survived with victories over Hungary and Bosnia-Herzegovina.
The Czech Republic served nanna to the home crowd
In addition to Finland and Serbia, in the final round of group D, the host of the group in Prague took the victory. The Czech Republic beat Israel 88–77. Thus, the Czech Republic was the last team to enter the playoffs, while Israel, who beat Finland in overtime, finished fifth in the group.
The Czech Republic led the match 53–37 at the break, but Israel was still in pain in the third period to the end of four points. However, the Czech Republic withstood the pressure of its home crowd in front of more than 12,000 spectators.
Vojtech Hruban scored 25 points for the winners. The number one star of the Czech Republic, who suffered from injuries, returned from the NBA to Barcelona Tomas Satoransky could play. He got more than 32 minutes of playing time, scored 14 points, grabbed 8 rebounds and dished out 11 assists. Satoransky eventually played in three of the five group games.
– Mixed feelings. I’m happy with the win and going to Berlin, it was probably our best game we played. We imagined that we would be in better positions in the group, but the next place is the most important thing in front of this crowd. I’m super excited that the fans came out here every game and supported. I’m glad we were able to show them our gratitude, Satoransky maalaili (you switch to another service).
Croatia got what they wanted
In Group C, things went as Croatia wanted. Croatian NBA star Bojan Bogdanovic intentionally missed a free throw in the last moments against Ukraine today.
The more obviously Croatia wanted to face Finland in the quarterfinals and dodge in the diagram Luka Doncic star-studded Slovenia.
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As expected, Italy beat Great Britain in the final round. Thus, Ukraine, Croatia and Italy all ended up with eight points. Through a mutual comparison, Ukraine was second in the group, Croatia third and Italy fourth.
Group C was won by Greece with a clean game.
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Finland beat Croatia at the end of June in the World Cup qualifying game in a memorable way Lauri Markkanen with a last minute basket 81–79. In the end, Croatia was left without a place in the first group of the World Cup qualifiers. Finland, on the other hand, marched into the next group, from which it has already secured a place in next year’s World Cup.
Since that game, Croatia has become stronger with NBA players With Dario Saric as well as the American quarterback With Jaleen Smith and with a Euroleague player With Krunoslav Simon.
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