The Spanish Basketball Team U18 did not fail in its first tie of the European Palma and imposed itself solidly to Greece (61-38) and eighths to be cited in rooms with the Se Serbia.
The team led by Javier Torralba starred with another great collective performance and with the defense as the main engine of the Spanish game.
The 16-5 of the first quarter already predicted a good game becoming, but the 22-10 partial of the second quarter put the icing to the rest with an advantage greater than twenty (38-15).
As usual in each championship match, the Spanish team found a new offensive reference. This Wednesday, María tapes touched that, with 8 points and 3 assists to rest, he led national statistics.
The defensive intensity allowed Spain to rob and run, but also generate losses in the Greek attack, which did not find solutions to the defense of the hosts in the third quarter.
With 47-32, Spain grew and closed the appointment at the Roberto Estrello de Santa Cruz de la Palma with the final 61-38.
The other most equal eighth duels were Montenegro-Hungary (74-71) and Poland-Eslovenia (67-65), which was decided with a free kick by Martyna Stepinska in the last second of the game.
With much more comfort, Belgium and Finland beat Israel and Türkiye, respectively, with an advantage around twenty points.
In the afternoon clashes, France rose without complications against Portugal (86-39) and Serbia surpassed Latvia in a more even encounter (57-66).
Precisely, Serbia will be the rival of Spain at the crossroads of the quarterfinals.
Together with the Mediterranean shock of Spanish and Greek, the day closed with the Dispute-Czech Italian dispute that fell on the side of the Italians (64-47) that will be measured to France in the next round.
The rest of the drawing of the quarterfinals is made up of the confrontation between Montenegro and Finland and Poland-Belgium.
