Basketball, Women's European Championships: Italy's debut, screamed against the favored Turkey. Photo EPA / SPYROS CHORCHOUBAS
ROME – Start to scream for the Italian National Women 's Basketball Team at the 2019 European Championships. The Italians won against Turkey, who was the number one opponent in this group for the next round. The European women's basketball teams are exclusively broadcast on Sky Sports channels from June 27th to July 7th.
As Sky Sport writes in its online edition, Turkey was the toughest opponent we had to deal with, the most complicated obstacle to overcome at the onset and the girls of coach Marco Crespi responded in the best way, winning with desire and character for 57-54 a complicated game.
A match that changed his story in the last 5 minutes and 20 seconds, after Francesca Dotto's injury – slipped on the sticker in the bezel and forced to leave the field on a stretcher. An emotional shock that overwhelmed the Italians, who at that point responded to the difficulties by finding unexpected energies.
As the Sky Sport chronicle continues, captain Giorgia Sottana has taken the team on her shoulders, scoring most of the 16 points collected in the last minutes of the match. His baskets are the shock that served the Italians, who in the best defense contain Turkey and manage to close the challenge by winning the most important head-to-head in group C. At the final siren, at the end of a tight battle and a challenge in which the score remained so low, the baskets of all really count: the triple of Sabrina Cinili in the fourth period, the seven points of a monumental Martina Crippa also in defense, the presence under the basket of Lorela Cubaj.
As Sky Sport concludes, all wisely coordinated by Cecilia Zandalasini, the focal center around which the whole team rotates: the blue n ° 9 remains on the floor for over 37 minutes, despite the ankle injury that has clearly limited its impact and conditioned the game rhythm. They are then joined by the six points of Francesca Dotto, to which the dedication of all the comrades in the post-match is immediately gone. A victory for her, the best way to start in a group that now sees Italy as a favorite (source Sky Sport).
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