Italbasket, nightmarish fourth quarter against Ukraine
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Italy-Ukraine 73-84
Second loss for Italy at FIBA EuroBasket 2022 and it’s a knockout that hurts because after succumbing today to Ukraine 84-73 the Azzurri have now slipped to fourth place in Group C.
On Tuesday, the Azzurri return to the court at 9 p.m. to face Croatia, which today won over Estonia 73-70: it will be the Forum’s second sold-out game. In the other challenge of our group comfortable the success of Greece over Great Britain (93-77).
The best Azzurro scorer of the game was Achille Polonara with 17 points, in double figures also Simone Fontecchio (14) and Marco Spissu (11). For the Ukrainians, 25 points by Mykhailiuk.
