Summary and highlights of Turkey 86-87 in France Eurobasket 2022

Thank you all for joining us in this intense duel with an exciting ending, it was a pleasure to be with you all.

Tarbe steals the ball to give France the win;

Joubert scored two points to give France +3

Ivan Fournier hits a three-pointer to give France a four-point lead;

We go into overtime tied 77-77.

Joubert scores with a header to tie the score at 77 in overtime;

Thomas Hertel puts France within two points

Seamus Heizer scored three goals to lead Turkey by one point

Amath M’Baye with a dip to close the gap

Ivan Fournier misses a triple at the buzzer

Sehmus Hazer scores a basket and Turkey is already five points ahead;

Sidi Othman equalizes and the France coach says it’s over

Tunser Bograhan makes a 3-pointer to put the Turks within two points

Arkan Osmani’s basket gives the Turkish national team more than 5 points;

Yvan Fournier makes a basket, giving the Frenchman +9 with his head

Yvan Fournier misses a three-pointer at the buzzer and the French go into the first half down by 8 points.

Turkey scores 7 points with a 3-pointer by Sidi Othman and the French coach stops the match.

Sidi Othman makes two free throws to lead the Turkish team with 11 points

Korkmaz scores a hat-trick to close the gap to 11 points and the French coach calls a timeout

Vincent Poirier leads the French team by 16 points

Kabaka misses the whistle on the final count in the first quarter;

Ivan Fournier scored to lead France with nine points;

Thomas Hertel scores to put the French +9 ahead and the Turkish coach in the match & nbsp

Sengon scores the first two points for the Turkish national team

Rudy Gobert scored two free throws, putting France on the scoreboard with 0:7

Gershon Jabosal scores the first points in the match

Turkey will be without Shane Larkin due to injury;

The national anthem in Berlin is played minutes before the start of the first leg of the Round of 16.

The winner of this duel will meet the winner of the match between Serbia and Italy tomorrow in the quarter-finals;

The match between Turkey and France will start in an hour, both the preview and the minute-by-minute of the game can be followed here on VAVEL

The French national team entered the Eurobasket with five wins in the six matches played. The only loss was against Bosnia and Herzegovina, while before that they beat the Czech Republic in the World Cup qualifiers and are second behind Lithuania. They played four friendlies to prepare for the European Championship and won all of them. They didn’t get off to a good start in Eurobasket after losing to Germany in the opening match, but bounced back with wins against Lithuania (73-77), Hungary (78-84) and Bosnia (68-81), although they lost to Slovenia. They finally finished the group stage in third place.

The Turkish national team entered the European Championship after four defeats and played a total of six friendly matches, in which they won three. Before playing Eurobasket, they lost to Latvia and Serbia in World Cup qualifiers. While they started this European Championship with wins over Montenegro and Bulgaria, they suffered an unexpected defeat against Georgia in extra time, but bounced back again in the last game against Belgium. They lost to Spain in the race for first place and finished the group stage in second place.

They have achieved 14 times with a positive record for France with 9 wins, while Turkey won with five wins. However, the last time they met with the winner of the confrontation was Turkey, it happened in 2019 in a friendly match. In 2015, they met in the round of 16 match of Eurobasket, in which the French won 76:53. The Turkish side managed to defeat the French in the second round of this competition in 1997.

Turkey and France will meet in the round of 16 of Eurobasket 2022.

My name is Manuel Carmona Hidalgo and I will be your host for this match. We’ll be bringing you pre-game analysis and news right here on VAVEL.