A big sigh of relief, the second in a few days. The French basketball team qualified this Wednesday evening for the semi-finals of the Euro defeating Italy, 93-85.
As in his round of 16 victory against Turkey on Saturday (87-86), Vincent Collet’s players had to go through extra time to advance to the next round.
And once again, the Blues pass for miraclessince the Italians, like the Turks before them, missed free throws at the very end of the match to seal the score of the game, before the French picked up the score and won in extra time.
“Even in bad shape, we try to get out of it”
“It’s been twice now“, blows the captain of the Blues, Evan Fournier, who regrets”an air hole” in the third quarter of the meeting, catastrophic (18-31).
“We make too many mistakes that sometimes help our opponents, recognizes the coach, Vincent Collet, but there is something that we cannot take away from this team, it is determination: we never give up, even in bad shape, we try to get out of it”.
The Olympic vice-champions will face Poland on Friday who eliminated the defending champion, Slovenia (90-87).