Portugal vs Germany: Basketball Score & Recap

	1	2	3	4	T
	17	14	21	33	85
	19	17	13	12	58

Germany

85

	1	2	3	4	T
	17	14	21	33	85
	19	17	13	12	58

58

Portugal

Germany

85

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58

Portugal

Lusos endure three quarters to the world champion and say goodbye to the Eurobasket with their heads high

This Saturday Portugal had an appointment for history. The Portuguese team has only been able to participate in four Eurobasket editions and its best classification was in 2007 when it accessed the second phase of the continental championship. For years the prominence of Portuguese sport was monopolized by football and, to a lesser extent, athletics, as main sports in the Iberian country. Basketball gave good players but had a residual effect on the grill of sports modalities, but this year the Portuguese selection claims its prominence winning eighteen years later A match in the European tournament. With the classification achieved as a fourth classified of Group A, thanks to the fact that Portugal managed to beat Estonia and the Czech Republic, they accessed a place in the qualifiers of the Eighth Eurobasket final. As a prize and to celebrate it, the rival in luck could not be more complicated, Germany, current world champion, undefeated in the competition and sweeping their rivals, with prominent players in NBA and Euroleague, Dennis Schröder, Daniel Theis, Andreas Obst, Tristan da Silva or Franz Wagner among others, directed from the bench by Álex Mumbrú.

As we said in the previous article in Basket passion On the Portuguese selection and its confrontation with the Germans, we can talk about a struggle of “David against Goliat”, A powerful metaphor that represents the victory of a helpless against a giant opponent, much larger and strong In the morning before the crash, he gave a 99.3 % of votes favorable to Germanyan overwhelming figure that explained his favoritism. The possibility of a surprise of the Portuguese team about the powerful Teutone selection was a chimera, but the matches must be played and not “Sell the bear skin before hunting it”.

Surprising meeting start

A few seconds after starting the game, Portugal led 2-7 thanks to two baskets of Neemias Queta and another from Rafael Lisbon, but the Portuguese joy lasted little, since the next two German attacks left 7-7 on the scoreboard. After this tie, both teams noticed the pressure of the appointment and chained several consecutive failures That they avoided changing the result for two minutes, until after half of the first quarter Germany woke up and gave continuity to its partial with a 9-0 that put things in its place, by remaining without scoring a single Portugal point for 5:30 minutes. Neemias Queta scored his sixth point from the free kick breaking the Sorta, which was still not scoring at stake until Miguel Queiroz less than two minutes from the end of the room, placed three to Portugal (13-10). The ten minutes closed with a marker in favor of Germany of 17-12. The releases of three of this period between both teams only saw Two successes of eighteen attempts (1 of 9 each selection). The percentage of Portuguese success was 21 % in field shots, Germany copied the chaotic game of three Portuguese but its launches of two, raised to 41 % the success the efficiency in the field shots.

The party has no owner

The second quarter began with a new triple wrong of Portugal, which Germany imitated again in the following attack (1 of 10 each team). Francisco Amarante y Candido SA broke with the malefice finally and with two triples put Portugal back ahead (21-22). The German team was not the rest of the tournament and It cost him a lot to write downremained in the game thanks to the success of two and the faults caused that placed Portugal in Bonus with 5:36 for playing in this room, while the Germans committed their first staff after five minutes of play. Germany stuck in point 21 for four minutes and Portugal took advantage of a partial 0-8 to open a Little gap in the electronic (21-26). A dead time by Álex Mumbrú reacted to his own and unbridled his attack by returning the partial with a 6-0 and recovering the command in the electronic (27-26). At the end of the first part 31-32 for Portugal and All to decide. The mistake from the Triple laid to Germany failing sixteen consecutive triples (the second quarter with 1 of 18, a very poor 5.6 %) and the world champion could not with the surprising Portugal, which gave the impression that was more efficient in low annotation matches, as against Estonia (65-68) or Czech Republic (50-62).

The surprise continues, Portugal holds the pull

The return of changing rooms left a few minutes to reflect all the spectators of the encounter and rub their eyes. The normal thing is that the second part Germany recovered its scoring smell and broke the meeting as soon as possible, if with a horrible percentage in triples it was at one point, when its attack carbure They should devastate the Lusos. But one thing is the theory and another the practice, because they reached the Ecuador of the third quarter with the same script, 42-40 for Germany and adjusted game, but something had changed …

Germany pressed and opened a small six-point gap (49-43), the largest of the game until that minute 28, Mario Gomes aware of the danger asked for a dead time so that they were not the clash, but their pupils began to have serious problems, Isaac Bonga scored a triple, the second of the room for Germany and continued expanding the distance by touching the distance of the psychological barrier of the ten. (52-43), after a few moments recovering from the blows, the Portuguese response put the score again, closing the third period With Portugal to a point From Germany (52-51), when Diago Gameiro culminated, a basket in the last second, thanks to the eighth rebound of attack by Portugal that gave them a new opportunity and signing a partial 0-8 in two minutes.

Germany destroys Portuguese dream

The last room Germany repeated its departure from the previous period and handcuffed Portugal’s attack, drying the first four minutes. A partial of beginning of 13-0 He gave an advantage to Germany that was placed fourteen above (65-51). When the first Portuguese basket of the fourth period arrived, Mario Gomes had spent a dead time and Germany was already thrown. Travante Williams succeeded since 6.75 and tried to give hope to their country, but the Germans had mutated and took the shaped form. Everything that won Germany in the first thirty minutes, now managed to materialize it easily and reached the last three minutes of the game with twenty margin points and a single Portuguese basket. When Francisco Amarante scored the second basket of the room, everything was determined. A 33-7 devastating for Álex Mmbrú closed the clash with an unfair advantage for the fight that players in southern Europe had put on the parquet, 85-58 and end of the Portuguese dream.

Both selections signed a bad percentage from Triple, Portugal got 20 % success and Germany improved ostensibly reaching an acceptable 27.8 % after 5.6 % of the first half. In two Germany shots signed a Exceptional 71.4 % For 30 % of Portugal, in addition the rhythm imposed by the Germans (especially the last quarter) gave 20 points to the counterattack while Portugal failed to write down in that section.

The best for the German team were Franz Wagner With 16 points, 7 rebounds and 5 assists, Isaac Bonga With 15 points, 7 rebounds and 4 robberies and Maodo lo With 12 points, 3 rebounds and 4 assists, while Portugal highlighted Nehemiah Queta with 18 points and 11 rebounds, Daniel Relvao with 4 points and 6 rebounds and Diogo Gameiro with 7 points and 4 assists.

Data Sheet:

Germany (17+14+21+33) 85: Isaac Bonga (15), Franz Wagner (16), Daniel Theis (8), Dennis Schröder (16), Andreas OBST (5) -Quinteto Inicial- Oscar da Silva (2), Maodo Lo (12), Tristan da Silva (11), Justus Hollatz y Johannes Thiemann. Seleccionador álex Mumbrú.

PORTUGAL (12+20+19+7) 58: Diogo Brito (5), Travante Williams (8), Rafael Lisboa (4), Miguel Queiroz (2), Nehemiah Queta (18) – Initial Quintet – Vlad Voytso, Francisco Amarante (5), Diogo Gameiro (7), Daniel Relvao (4), Nuno Sa Y Candido Sa (5). Mário Gomes selector.

Eighth Party of the Eurobasket 2025 between the selections of Germany and Portugal, played on Saturday, September 6, 2025 at 2:15 p.m. personal offenses.

Author: José Manuel Crespo

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