Third round of 16 scheduled for today in Berlin, and locals who will try to set the city on fire by continuing their almost immaculate course in this Euro. The task will be difficult but the Germans have nevertheless inherited an opponent very within their reach with Montenegro, within their reach but still solid third in Group A behind Spain and Turkey. And quite frankly, we could have a REAL basketball game at 6 p.m., on Canal Plus for subscribers.
The Mercedes-Benz Arena in Berlin will be packed this Saturday at 6 p.m., and let us tell you, it will not be Australians in the stands. A people screaming in unison their love for their team which, moreover, has achieved a very interesting Euro so far. Life-size test therefore for this German team, largely within its reach but beware, because the opponent of the day showed during the group stage that it owed its place here to no one. Bojan Dubljevic chains the double-doubljevics and Kendrick Perry is diabolical at the controller, Marko Simonovic started with a bang and remains a solid threat inside and Montenegor as a whole have a strike force that should not be neglected this afternoon. For it ? Damn, those Germans have some serious arguments to make. We obviously think of the duo of NBA leaders Dennis Schroder / Franz Wagner, in the oven, in the mill and in boxes for ten days, but also to a slew of role players who participate each in turn or all together to make Germany a very solid team at this Euro. Niels Giffey, Andreas Obst and the Teutonic Kyrie Maodo Lo in particular, while under the security guards Theis, Voigtmann and Thiemann did not come to the selection to monitor the cooking of the sauerkraut. It runs fast, it runs non-stop and it falls everywhere, and all these cocos will therefore, once again, receive the support of a public greatly committed to its cause, it can help, so it seems.
The rosters
Germany : Niels Giffey, Justus Hollatz, Maodo Lo, Andreas Obst, Dennis Schroder, Christian Sengfelder, Daniel Theis, Johannes Thiemann, Johannes Voigtmann, Franz Wagner, Nick Weiler-Babb, Jonas Wohlfarth-Bottermann
Montenegro : Igor Drobnjak, Bojan Dubljevic, Aleksa Ilic, Vladimir Mihailovic, Zoran Nikolic, Nikola Pavlicevic, Kendrick Perry, Petar Popovic, Dino Radoncic, Nemanja Radovic, Marko Simonovic, Zoran Vucelljic
The journey of the two teams
- Germany – France : 76-63
- Germany – Bosnia: 92-82
- Germany – Lithuania: 109-107
- Germany – Slovenia : 80-88
- Germany – Hungary: 106-71
- Montenegro – Turkey : 68-72
- Montenegro – Belgium: 76-70
- Montenegro – Bulgaria: 91-81
- Montenegro – Spain : 65-82
- Montenegro – Georgia: 81-73
6 p.m. for this third match of the day, and a winner who will have a good chance of heading to Greece in the quarter-finals. Still in Berlin huh, but we understood each other. Much more than a test, it is a real challenge that awaits Germany, to prove at home that it is a little more than an outsider of this EuroBasket 2022.