Basket: Italy – Cyprus, the chronicle of the match · Eurobasket 2025
European Basketball 2025: Italy-Cyprus 89-54 (24-6, 40-19, 67-43)
The blue quintet is confirmed, but it is clear from the outset that the minutages will not be the usual. Coach Pozzecco therefore starts with Alessandro Pajola, Matteo Spanish, Simone Fontecchio, Nicolò Melli e Momo dioufCyprus replies with Constitin Simitzis, Simon Michail, Michalis Koumis, Darral Willis Jr e Nikos stylianou.
For almost three minutes it is not marked, if not at a stopped stopwatch. Cyprus puts only two baskets from the field in the first quarter, Italy despite some difficulty in shooting manages to spread, thanks to a “cap” that the Cypriot suffers for almost nine minutes, in which the only points scored are the free of Willis. Those with which the score opens, only to run into the partial of 19-0 in favor of the Azzurri (8 points diouf, 6 Spanish and triple frontal scored for Fontecchio). The men of Item They are unable to give continuity to the conclusions from the long-the second triple creates it from the bench-but at the first siren, they are on 24-6.
A mortgage on the game, even with three quarters to be played. Because even when it is unlocked Filippos Tigkas (Best marker of his with 15 points), Cyprus is unable to mend the distances if not until -12. In all this, the Italian bench begins to take over: Gallinari and Procida sink from the arch, also enroll in the report Darius Thompson and Nicola Akele, but we must restore Spanish ball in the final to overcome the 20 points of advantage, with the free of the 40-19 at the end of the second quarter.
From the 19 points of the first half of the race to the 24 points on returning from the long interval: Cyprus finds the inspiration in attack and can be seen since the first bars of the third quarter, with the triple of Antreas Christodoulou. Italy, however, has a 10-point source in this fraction and responds blow by blow to the offensive Cypriot, so much so that the partial remains in favor of the Azzurri (27-24 in the fourth), without voltage drops and without losing ground in a game that heads towards the credits.
Marco Spissu from the distance places the basket of +25, the greatest Italian advantage touches +27 with curls in the middle of the final and is still Spanish, with a game, to update the score on +31, scoring the two free of the 79-48. In the final minutes, the bar is still rising: Procida and Gallinari, from three, push Italy on 89-54: thirty -five waste points to close the games And to wait for Greece, from the sofa. A victory of the Hellenics would mean second and eighth final with Slovenia, a defeat would launch Italy in the first place for an eighth against Israel.
The Spyros Kyprianou Arena of Limassol greets its darlings and the blues, who will leave on Friday 5 September for a row. Eurobasket comes alive, with Italy still in the race.
