Olympic Games: Spain Finishes First In Group And ‘avoids’ The Dream Team Of The United States At The Hand Of A Great N’Dour »LA TRIBUNA

Espaa has become in its own right one of the coconuts of the quarterfinal draw to which it arrives as seed after finishing the group stage first with a new recital against Canad which was imposed by 66-76 . Lucas Mondelo’s team is crossing out missions on its roadmap and after getting the pass to the crosses in the match against Serbia, it has now managed to avoid the United States in the first round of the KO thanks to a new sample of solvency that places the combined Spanish in the car of great favorites to the medals.

A condition that has been won on the court with brilliant minutes like the first three he gave away against the North American team. Led by a Cristina Ouvia (15 points and seven assists) who plays at a different speed than the rest, and for Astou Ndour (20 points and 11 rebounds) that has been determined to become queen of the zones, Spain took off with a partial of 3-9. A difference that increased to 13-23 with two minutes to go to the end of the first quarter, which ventured a placid match to close this first part of the championship.

Canada entered the party hand in hand with Fields and cut the score (25-29, min. 17) to spice up a game in which the Spaniards avoided melee and devoted themselves to saving effort by slowing down the tempo of the crash to take it to rest with six rental points.

A new acceleration after passing through the changing rooms was the final take-off that Spain needed to break up the game. He did it with a 2-16 partial (36-56 on the scoreboard) from the hand of an omnipresent Ndour and an Ouvia that begins to have the face of a leader in a team in which Mondelo proposes and she has, Canada tried again to get into the clash with a 5-0 partial midway through the third act and when Everything seemed ready to close the clash with a Spanish lease, the nerves arrived at the beginning of the last set.

Canada had to cut the differences to aspire to be one of the two best third-parties and did so with an 11-2 start to which Spain had a hard time reacting more than necessary, losing to the step forward that the North Americans took in defense. That increase in intensity pill with the step changed to the Spanish team that had to temper the spirits and counteract the Kia Nurse microwave moment. He did it based on defense, which is the identity of this team and the one that has taken him, for now, to the quarterfinals.

Now it is time to think about a quarter-final in which, except for catastrophe, he will not meet the United States. The US team has to lose decisively to France and that does not seem to be the case when we talk about a team that has not lost an Olympic match since 1992. The most fearsome rival of the entire tournament and which Spain, for now, has avoided until the semifinals.