Spain will see the faces next Friday (10.00 hours) with Australia in the semifinals of the World Cup, after the victory of the oceanic team against the Czech Republic (82-70), who abandons the fight for medals as one of the teams revelation of the championship.

Sergio Scariolo's team thus gets a direct ticket to the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games , since only two European teams are still in the fight for the medals: Spain and France, the United States executioner.

Australia is being one of the strongest teams in the World Cup. Still undefeated, like the Spanish team and Argentina, which will play against France the other semifinal. The Australians managed to beat the Gauls in the group stage by a tight 98-100, so they are expected to be a tough bone for the Scariolo group, which has managed to beat strong teams like Serbia in the stages before or Italy

24 points from Patty Mills

Andrej Lemanis were superior to the Czechs, with San Antonio Spurs player Patty Mills raising his team and scoring 24 points, 4 rebounds and six assists. He has an average of 21.8 points in the championship. Czech star Bohacik did not have his best day, unlike the Chicago Bulls base, Tomas Satoransky (13 points, 9 rebounds and 13 assists), which was one of the keys for the Czech Republic not to lose pace.

In the first half of the game both teams maintained a high level and managed to reach the break with only three points of difference (33-30) in favor of the Australians and a total equality in the game. They started, however, the oceanists a third quarter attacking hard and achieved a decisive partial of 30 points to get into the semifinals.

The Czech Republic started strong last quarter and with a triple of Peterka and a basket of Pumprla managed to approach eight, an advantage that Baynes , Creek and Dellavedova did not let it materialize. The Czechs tried to hold on to the scoreboard in the last five minutes with two triples followed by Patrik Auda , who with 21 points was the top Czech scorer.

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