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TOP SCORER – LUXEMBOURG: Geniets 16; ITALY: Romeo 21
IT ENDS HERE: Italy victorious in a much more than clear way, like the gap between the two teams. Fifth victory for the Azzurri!
51-109 Attura enters the three-point shooting competition.
51-106 Panzera doesn’t stop! Third triple.
51-103 Second triple from Panzera.
51-100 And with Andrè we reach 100!
51-98 In Lunetta Hamalainen, 1/2.
50-98 From three Panzera! Italy now close to 100.
50-95 Steal and support from Attura, timeout.
50-93 2/2 Andrè, which replies with the same coin.
50-91 2/2 Hey Etute with this lunette trip.
Last 5′.
48-91 Easy Makeup Support.
48-89 Romeo again, 7/8 from three!
48-86 Andrè steals the ball in midfield and scores in support.
48-84 Romeo’s triple sixth, still in his style!
48-81 Nice basket from Fassina, Luxembourg timeout.
48-79 From the Spreafico arc!
48-76 The Fassina jumper also arrives.
48-74 Triple with Geniets’ hand in the face, the timeout is now from Lardo.
45-74 Arrest and shooting by Geniets.
The last quarter begins.
TOP SCORER – LUXEMBOURG: Geniets 14; ITALY: Romeo 15
43-74 And with the triple on Spreafico’s siren, Italy flies over 30 points ahead!
43-71 2/2 Fassina.
Fassina throws himself in, do it and go free.
43-69 Inside the add-on.
43-68 Triple with a foul for Spreafico!
43-65 Hey Etute shows a nice pivot, but above all he is proving to be a valid element.
41-65 Romeo’s fifth triple! And from a sidereal distance, without rhythm!
41-62 2/2 Cattle.
Matilde Villa lands badly in an attempt to keep a defense on Hey Etute, leaves the field without supporting a leg. Let’s hope it’s nothing serious.
39-62 Second triple in a row (open) by Geniets.
36-62 Triple from very far by Geniets.
Half third quarter reached.
33-62 Verona again!
33-59 Round the line for Jablonowski caused by Bestagno, 2/2, 6’45” at the end of the third quarter.
31-59 Triple open of Verona.
31-56 Two more of Hey Etute.
29-56 Round the bezel for Hey Etute, 1/2.
28-56 Bestagno to get closer to +30.
28-54 Support from Verona.
28-52 Risposta di Skrijelj.
25-52 Verona starts again from three.
The third quarter begins.
19:54 The third quarter is about to begin.
19:51 Up to now, no other blue player has played more than Zandalasini’s 11’54”.
19:48 Merciless evaluation data: 15-69 Italy.
19:45 In the other group match, predictably, Slovakia-Switzerland 78-50. But Switzerland has long been in the game.
TOP SCORER – LUXEMBOURG: Geniets 8; ITALY: Romeo 12
A few hands with legs and arms spit Bestagno’s triple out of the basket on the siren, but it doesn’t change much at the end of the second quarter.
25-49 1/2 Beef.
Hey Etute coast to coast from Panzera’s turnover, free.
24-49 Make the additional Zandalasini. Last minute of the quarter.
24-48 Baseball launch for Zandalasini, stops, fakes, scores, is fouled, additional free!
24-46 Easy support from Zandalasini.
24-44 We go from Bestagno in low post, logical conclusion.
24-42 Make the additional Geniets.
23-42 Triple from the corner with a foul by Geniets, who takes advantage of Attura’s (too) extreme proximity.
20-42 Romeo’s ignorant triple from nine meters, it’s the fourth! Another Luxembourg timeout, 3’40” at the interval.
20-39 All good things come in threes, Romeo enjoys it!
20-36 Romeo answers!
20-33 Bidinger from the corner places the triple.
17-33 Quite a lucky layup by Mossong.
15-33 Rebound in attack and support for Andrè’s glass.
15-31 We return to the field with the free throws for Geniets who make fun of Villa’s experience, 2/2 for her.
Luxembourg timeout with 7’34” to play in the second quarter.
13-31 Romeo’s triple!
13-28 Andrè with a nice movement near the rebound basket in attack!
13-26 Blue domination under the basket, Andrè takes advantage of Keys’ attack rebound and supports.
The second quarter begins.
TOP SCORER – LUXEMBOURG: Jablonowski, Hey Etute 4; ITALY: Keys 11
Thus ends the first quarter of the game.
13-24 Romeo refuses the shot, unloads for Villa and it’s a three-point shot! +11 Italy!
13-21 Pair of free throws for Fassina, who misses the second, but collects his own rebound and supports!
13-18 Good movement near the basket of Hey Etute.
11-18 Support with an immediate foul by Keys, who then also realizes the additional. Inside Villa and Romeo.
Very good blue circulation, the ball reaches Keys who once again earns the foul line.
11-15 Good circulation for the support of Keys.
11-13 2/2 Raised Cow.
Andrè tries to stop Hey Etute in one against one, there are two free throws with 3’06” to the first siren.
9-13 Stolen from Fassina’s throw-in who then scores!
9-11 Triple by Esmeralda Skrijelj, one of the two sisters (among other things, a good shooter).
6-11 2/2 Keys.
Mossong sends Keys into the lunette.
6-9 In the chaos below comes a banal loss of Italy, Jablonowski scores one against zero.
Moments without great scoring streak for the two teams, we go in the middle of the first quarter.
4-9 Nice basket by Keys who also suffers the foul, but then fails the additional free. 6’38” at the end of the first quarter.
4-7 Geniets replies quickly after a good action.
2-7 Keys in appoggio!
2-5 From the Jablonowski average on which the doubling was skipped.
0-5 Open triple from Zandalasini, Verona sees it: three points!
0-2 And it is the classic jumper of Zandalasini from the average who unlocks the scoring.
And it starts with the first Italian possession.
However, there is a minute of silence first, for Turkey and Syria.
QUINTETTO LUSSEMBURGO: Geniets Jablonowski Mossong Wolff E. Skrijelj
ITALY QUINTET: Keys Bestagno Verona Zandalasini Spreafico
18:59 Teams from the two coaches, we’re about to start!
18:57 The hymns are over and it will soon be a tap-off!
18:54 And now it’s time for the national anthems ceremony after the two teams have been presented.
18:51 Not very crowded, to put it mildly, the Luxembourg, Center National Sportif & Culturel d’Coque. One grandstand filled, the other essentially empty.
18:48 Three precedents and three victories for the Azzurri with Luxembourg. The first two, in addition to the one mentioned in Faenza, in 2012 in Frosinone and Contern.
18:45 The warm-up of the blue
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18:42 In the first leg, in Faenza, Italy won 82-48. It was the day of Matilde Villa’s debut, that she scored four points. She is precisely the name that returns, as in a circle: she had skipped the last window, but in this one she is present after a season that she is playing at excellent levels, without Costa Masnaga-style figures, but with great coordination together with the other Reyer experts Venice.
18:39 For Italy, a “useless” comparison, in the sense that the Azzurri are already qualified for Slovenia and Israel 2023 and are not even afraid of giving up first place, which was conquered definitively at the same time as qualifying. If anything, there is a whole series of possible quintets to explore for the most varied situations.
18:36 These are the Luxembourg players (one of these will not be on the roster in the evening)
#1 The Best of The Best (2006, 1.83, C, BBC Residence)
#5 Seila Skrjeli (2006, 1.67, G, Diddeleng)
#6 Nadia Mossong (1986, 1.81, A, Diddeleng)
#9 Kyra Coulon (2004, 1.80, A, Basket Esch)
#11 Mandy Geniets (1998, 1.75, G, Diddeleng)
#14 Lisa Brigitta Jablonowski (1997, 1.90, C)
#16 Emma Blasen (2006, 1.75, G, Diddeleng)
#22 Liz Irthum (2001, 1.82, A, Grengewald)
#24 Laetitia Schumacher (2004, 1.75, A, Contern)
#27 Cathrin Wolff (1996, 1.81, AC, Grengewald)
#28 Esmeralda Skrijelj (1995, 1.78, A, Amicale Steinsel)
#32 Charlie Bidinger (1995, 1.70, A, Musel Pikes)
#35 Faith Ehi Etute (2005, 1.83, AC, Diddeleng)
18:33 These are today’s 12 blues:
#0 Jasmine Keys (1997, 1.87, A, Famila Schio, 21, 103)
#2 Matilde Villa (2004, 1.70, P, Umana Reyer Venice, 1, 4)
#3 Nicole Romeo (1989, 1.70, P, Iveco Eirene Ragusa, 30, 230)
#4 Martina Bestagno (1990, 1.89, C, Famila Schio, 51, 273)
#8 Costanza Verona (1999, 1.70, P, Famila Schio, 8, 69)
#9 Cecilia Zandalasini (1996, 1.86, A, Segafredo Zanetti Bologna, 65, 700)
#12 Valeria Trucco (1999, 1.86, A, Geas Sesto San Giovanni, 8, 15)
#19 Martina Fassina (1999, 1.82, G, Umana Reyer Venezia, 8, 66)
#22 Olbis Andrè (1998, 1.92, C, Segafredo Zanetti Bologna, 40, 270)
#23 Laura Spreafico (1991, 1.82, A, Gernika Bizkaia – Spain, 32, 104)
#24 Ilaria Panzera (2002, 1.80, G, Geas Sesto San Giovanni, 2, 1)
#30 Beatrice Attura (1990, 1.70, P, Iveco Eirene Ragusa, 14, 67)
18:30 Good evening to all OA Sport readers, and welcome to LIVE LIVE from Luxembourg-Italy.
The presentation of Luxembourg-Italy
Good evening to all OA Sport readers, and welcome to the LIVE LIVE of the fifth match of the 2023 Women’s European Qualifiers. Italy plays away against Luxembourg in a match with little to ask, given the already successful conquest of passes for Slovenia and Israel.
What little concerns above all finding quite significant victories both today and Sunday against Switzerland in order to find the best possible situation in view of the draw that will take place on March 8 in Ljubljana, home together with Celje, Koper (Capodistria) and Tel Aviv of the continental review.
There are returns of Matilde Villa and Francesca Pan (the latter kept however at rest), but there is also a lot of curiosity to find out which group could be the one put together for this occasion by Linen Lard. Santucci and Cubaj are missing, due to physical problems of a different nature. In share Luxembourg Jablonowski main among those under the magnifying glass.
So coach Lardo before the game: “There are many reasons why these two matches are important for us. We want to finish the group unbeaten and we want to improve our ranking in view of the European Championship. Luxembourg is growing, in November they played two excellent matches holding up against Slovakia and then dominating Switzerland away. Their hopes of qualifying have not entirely faded, yet another reason to approach this match carefully. As always, the girls showed up at the meeting with enthusiasm and we are very happy about this: we face the last two official matches before the European Championship, a precious opportunity to consolidate mentality and team spirit“.
The match between Luxembourg and Italy will see the duo kick off at 19:00. Have fun with the LIVE LIVE of OA Sport!
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