For Australia up to 4 players surpassed 14 points, with Jock Landale being the team's top scorer with 18 points and 7 rebounds.
However both Nico Mannion and Simone Fontecchio finished the game with 21 and 22 points respectively. Mannion scored his personal high in this championship and recorded 7 assists.
The match ends at the Saitama Super Arena. Australia manages to take the victory and gets a foot and a half in the quarterfinals. Great reaction from Brian Goorjian's team, who managed to come back in the second half.
Great third quarter by Patty Mills who manages to overtake Australia thanks to 3 assists and 8 points in this time. Italy will have to keep making adjustments to prevent the game from slipping away from them.
The first half of the game ends with a score that reflects the great game that both teams are playing. Very good defenses and a very attractive pace of the game.
A few moments ago, both teams finished their pre-match warm-ups and in a few moments the line-ups for the match will be published, all live from VAVEL.com.
Both Italy and Australia are coming off wins in their first match at the Olympics and will fight to secure a place in the quarterfinals with another victory today. The match will kick off at 17:20 local Japanese time.
Australia's best player is looking forward to the match
Patty Mills wants to continue to enlarge his figure with the Australian national team and will seek to win again and continue fighting for a medal this year. Recall that Mills himself assured that he is thirsty for "revenge" for not having won the bronze medal last World Cup in 2019 against France.
It will be the second game of group B on the day, a few hours ago ended the match between Germany and Nigeria, which despite 33 points from the bench scored by Milwaukee Bucks forward Jordan Nwora, the German national team was able to secure the 92-99 victory.
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Just before the match starts, we will share with you the starting lineups Australia vs Italy live in the men's basketball group stage of the 2020 Olympic Games, as well as the latest information from the Saitama Super Arena. Don't miss any details of the game with VAVEL's minute-by-minute live online coverage.
Nico Mannion has been chosen for the first time to play as an Italian international because of the flashes of great player that he leaves every time he steps on the court. We must be very attentive to the development of the Golden State Warriors point guard because at any moment he could surprise many.
Nico Manionn en el partido vs Alemania / Foto : FIBA
The Australian point guard of the San Antonio Spurs is one more year the main reference of the Oceanic team in these Olympic Games. As he has been doing since he arrived to the national team, Mills averages formidable statistics in international competitions, without going any further, in the first game against Nigeria he scored 25 points shooting an amazing 5/8 from deep.
Nico Mannion, Marco Spissu, Alessandro Pajola, Stefano Tonut, Ricardo Moraschini, Michele Vitali, Giampaolo Ricci, Simone Fontecchio, Nicoló Melli, Danilo Gallinari, Amedeo Tessitori and Achille Polonara will represent the Italian team at the Olympic Games. The national team will be led by Meo Sacchetti.
Patty Mills, Matthew Dellavedova, Nathan Sobey, Chris Goulding, Dante Exum, Josh Green, Joe Ingles, Matisse Thybulle, Nicholas Kay, Duop Reath, Aron Baynes and Jock Landale are the 12 players selected by Brian Goorjian for these Olympic Games.
Both Australia and Italy won their first matches in these Olympic Games so whoever ends up winning this match would practically have a foot and a half in the quarterfinals of the competition.
Both teams have met before in the Olympic Games, leaving a balance of 2 wins and 2 losses. In 1976 Italy won (79-72), in 1980 Australia won (84-77), in 1984 Italy won (93-82) and in 2000 Australia won by 3 points (65-62).
