Women’s Eurobasket: Winner of Croatia, the surprise Bosnia and Herzegovina in the quarterfinals for the Blue

The French basketball players, favorites for the continental title and first in their group after three clear victories in the first round, will face Bosnia and Herzegovina in the quarter-finals of Euro 2021 early in the evening (6 p.m.) in Strasbourg. Bosnia and Herzegovina, driven by the performance of its pivot Jonquel Jones (24 points, 17 rebounds), Bahamian naturalized in May 2019, hardly beat Croatia 80 to 69, in a play-off Monday early evening in Strasbourg.

The players of Valérie Garnier, beaten four times in a row in the final of a European Championship (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019) will start off largely favorites of the match against Bosnia, to join for the seventh consecutive time the last square of one Euro. For their part, Bosnia is playing a European Championship for the first time since 1999 and created a surprise by beating Belgium for the first group match in Strasbourg.

A Spain-Serbia shock from the quarter-finals

The other posters are also known. Monday evening, the Spanish basketball players, double reigning European champions, beat Montenegro 78 to 51 in the Euro-2021 play-offs and will face Serbia on Wednesday evening in Valencia in the shock of the quarter-finals of the European Championship. The Spaniards arrived at this Eurobasket lessened by the absence of their best player, Alba Torrens, tested positive for Covid-19 five days before the start of the competition, just like Tamara Abalde. In addition, the executives of the selection like Marta Xargay, Laura Nicholls or Ana Cruz have retired internationally.

Result, the players of Barcelona Lucas Mondelo lost against Belarus at the start of Euro, at home. A setback which therefore forced Spain to compete in this dam. But above all, this second place in the group rocked the Iberian selection, present in nine of the last ten squares of the European Championship, in an extremely tough part of the table with Serbia, European champion in 2015, while Belgium and Russia also figure in this half of the table.

In Valencia, the other quarter-final will pit Belarus against Sweden who easily dominated Italy in the play-offs.