Italy vs Türkiye: EuroBasket 2023 – Score & Semi-Final Preview

Among the first 4 of the European Championship !!! A dream that comes true 30 years after the silver of Brno. Bringing Turkey to Piraeus today (76-74 DTS) the women’s national team qualified for the semifinals of the Fiba Women’s Eurobasket 2025 and Friday will return to the field to challenge the winner of Germany-Belgium (time to be defined, directed on Raisport, Sky Sportununo and Dazn).

An extraordinary result, for the blue, who with today’s success have also ensured access to the pre-world tournament that will be played in March 2026 and which will qualify for the World Cup (Germany, 4-13 September 2026).

In the other quarter of the final, France beat Lithuania 83-61, tomorrow the quarter program is completed with Spain-Cechia and Belgium-Germany.

Today the best blue marking was Lorela Cubaj with 16 points, Cecilia Zandalasini with 14 points, Jasmine Keys and Costanza Verona both with 12 points also in double.

These are the words of FIP President Giovanni Petrucci: “Blue, moving, very good, extraordinary, are proud of this group for how he played these games. It is a young team, who has a present and a future. I am happy for this result, now very difficult games await us but at this point we don’t want to stop. “

So Coach Capobianco: “I have been saying this for weeks, this group has not stopped working with passion and attention even one day. Today we collect an important result by returning to the semifinal at 30 years from Brno, I am proud of this group and its ability to react to delicate moments, as in Bologna. Turkey is a very difficult team to deal with, it has a size and speed and a lot of experience but we had prepared it well and as always when we went in difficulty we reacted as a team, not only with our individuality “.

The words of Verona: “This group is more or less the same that two years ago was eliminated prematurely by Montenegro at the end of the first phase. We did not want to try another disappointment of the genre in any way, we repeated it for the whole gathering and I think this is the reason why we always go out of the complicated moments. Today we did it in the extra, after having grossed the cane of the tie as a siren, and we did it with Cuba, All protagonists.

Cecilia Zandalasini’s comment: “That last shot of the extra one did not want to enter, I believe that in the end it entered because after so many disappointments we deserved this huge joy. In the second quarter I watched me a little, I thank my companions who kept us in the game. We are winning these games all teams, with a defense, a bouncing, a flake taken, a double -sided, a well -made block. In the end I cried with joy”.

Verona, Pasa, Zandalasini, Keys and Cubaj is the quintet chosen by Coach CapobiancoItaly takes the field with the right head: a lot of concentration, the right tension. Verona and Pasa bring us on 9-4, on the other side it is McCowan who hurts us from below and outside. The advantage, even if contained, we keep it until the end of the first quarter thanks to the 7 points of Keys (20-17).

In the second quarter it is Senyurek who cancels the +7 blue with 5 in a row (24 equal), when McCowan is on the bench to finish, Capobianco opts for a light quintet with Zandalasini in strong wing. A couple of penetrations converted to the basket by Bayram prevent us from escaping, minute after minute also from the arch even our percentages cool down (2/10) and so Turkey finds the first advantage of the match from the bezel 3 ‘from the long interval with McCowan (28-30), which then allows the red and white to stretch up to 31-35 at the end of the second quarter (14/34 from the field. Blue).

At the start of the third partial the decisive escape of Turkey seems to arrive, who with the free of Cakir finds the +9 (33-42) but as in Bologna at the moment of difficulty the Italy finds nail polish and malice: Zandalasini finds the feeling with the basket, Keys hits from the arch and we return ahead (45-44).

At the last six minutes you arrive in parity, Italy finds the +5 with Verona (62-57) but it is still McCowan to shorten from the lunette to 3 ‘from the end (62-61): the blue come one step away from the semifinal but do not exploit the many occasions earned in the game ending thanks to a super defense. Keys takes us to +3, then the lost ball of Verona arrives after the free free of the new +3 of Zandalasini, 5 ″ from the siren the blue forgive the ball and grant the tag in Uzun.

The extra time decides the suspension of Cecilia Zandalasini, after for three minutes the two teams had remained fasting. As in Bologna, a game won, lost, won, lost and then still won. But this time the joy is infinitely superior given the importance of the stake.

Italy-Türkiye 76-74 D1ts (20-17; 11-18; 19-15; 18-18)
Italia: Keys* 12 (3/5, 2/4), Pasa* 5 (1/2, 1/2), Verona* 12 (5/7, 0/4), Zandalasini* 14 (4/12, 0/1), pan 4 (2/5, 0/1), Cubaj* 16 (8/12), Madera, Santucci 2 (1/2, 0/1), Fassina 3 (1/2 from three), Andrè 8 (4/7), Spreafico ne, Trimboli (0/3 from three). All: Capobianco
Türkiye: What, Long 20 (4/12, 1/3), Cakir 9 (2/4, 1/1), Fitik 7 (2/4, 1/3), McCowan 16 (6/9), Bilgc ne, Response 8 (3/9, 0/2), Bayram 6 (3/4), Senyurek 8 (2/5, 1/5), Erdogan, Atas Ne, Ural. All: Satisfied
Arbitri: Ariadna Chueca (Spagna), Gvidas Gedvilas (Lituania), Gatis Salins (lettonia)

The other quarter final
France-Lithuania 83-61 (35-14; 21-17; 15-14; 12-16)
France: Brochant 7 (2/4 da tre), FopPossi (3/4, 0/2), ayayi* 11 (2/3, 1/1), Rupert* 15 (2/5, 3/3), Salaun* 10 (2/2, 2/2), Badiane 6 (3/7, 0/1), Tourè* 6 (3/6, 0/2), Pouye 4 (2/3, 0/1) (0/2), Lacan 10 (2/3 da tre), Bernies* (0/2, 0/3), Astier 6 (3/5, 0/1). All: Toupane.
Lithuania: Jocyte* 9 (1/2, 0/1), Nacickaite Van de Horst 2 (0/5 Da Tre), Raulusaityte, Sinickaite* 2 (1/3), senskit* 16 (4/8, 1/2), Sventorait* 15 (4/10, 0/1), Meskonyte 5 (1/3, 1/3) (1/2, 0/1), Zabotkaitė 1 (0/1 da tre), Donskichyte, Labuckiene 8 (3/5). ALL: Stanisauskas
Referees: Georgios Poursanidis (Greece), Karolina Gajdosz (Poland), Paulo Marques (Portugal)

Italy and the women’s European
Italy has returned to organize a group of the women’s European European Championship 18 years after the edition hosted by Abruzzo, the eighth time for our country is ever. No other nation boasts the same record, following there is France with 5 editions and Hungary with 4. In 1938 it was the turn of Rome and the blue won gold, in 1968 in Sicily, 1974 of Sardinia, in 1981 of the Marche, in 1985 in Veneto, in 1993 of Umbria and in 2007 of Abruzzo.