Little rest for the real ones, and to tell the truth this Euro is a real fight for the organisms. Today ? End of the round of 16, four new matches, a bracket which will therefore reveal itself a little more and, tonight, the Blues will know their opponent in the quarter-finals.
Yesterday’s results
- France – Turkey: 87-86
- Slovenianse – Belgium: 88-72
- Germany – Montenegro : 85-79
- Spain – Lithuania: 102-94
The program of the day
- 12h : Ukraine – Poland
- 14h45 : Finland – Croatia
- 18:00 Serbia – Italy
- 20h45 : Greece – Czech Republic
Potentially fewer emotions than yesterday, but you never know. A quiet aperitif with Ukraine and Poland, two amazing teams who will fight to find Luka Doncic and Slovenia in the quarterfinals, then in the process the Croats will have to be careful not to fall into the trap set up by Lauri Markkanen and his friends snowmen before going, why not, to rub shoulders with La Roja in quarters. At 6 p.m. we get into the hard part with the shock of this day between Serbs who are very very (too?) sure of their strength, against Italians who have nothing to lose and who seem to be – watch out! – armed to try to thwart the predictions. The winner of this match will face France so we will obviously watch this match but we will watch it like Sunday scouts, and at the end of the program we will especially have an eye on the physical form of Giannis Antetokounmpo against the Czechs of a Satoransky who returned to form, with the carrot of qualifying to play host Germany in the next round. In short, no reason to get off the PC before midnight tonight and if there is a nap, we recommend the 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. slot. Sorry if it’s too late at the time of reading these lines. The last two games of the day will be available for Canal subscribers, and for the first two it will be necessary to keep an eye and refresh MySpace, welcome to 2007.
The bracket
Tomorrow’s program
- rest, rest, rest, rest!