We had to play 9 games in total. After 8 games we only won 2. Those were against The Netherlands and Bulgaria. because we lost most of the games we had to play for place 13 or 14. But places 14,15 and 16 would be going down to division B next year. So this game was very important. Our opponent were The Netherlands. We already played against them in the beginning of the EC. We won that game, so The Netherlands were ready for there payback.
The day of the game I was really stressed out! We really needed that win! We started really bad, at the half time we were 15 points behind. We started better in our 3th quarter. We came back till 5 points. The first half of quater 4 we stayed 5 points behind. The last 3 minutes of the game we stood equal! Now we had to go over them! there were only 20 seconds left and we were up by 1 point. We kept the ball in offense as long as we could. The last 5 seconds The Netherlands had one more chance to win the game,but they missed there shot! So we won the game with 1 point! That meant that The Netherlands had to go to division B, and we stayed in A. We reached our goal.
