{"id":35840,"date":"2025-11-28T00:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-stunned-by-lithuania-in-opener\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T00:59:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T00:59:05","slug":"fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-stunned-by-lithuania-in-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/fiba-world-cup-2027-qualifiers-great-britain-stunned-by-lithuania-in-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiba World Cup 2027 qualifiers: Great Britain stunned by Lithuania in opener"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Lithuania snatched a thrilling 89-88 victory against Great Britain in their opening match of the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers in London. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ignas Sargiunas, who topped the scoring chart for the visitors with 27 points, bagged the decisive three-pointer in the final second to seal a remarkable comeback after GB had dominated the first half.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Marc Steutel&#8217;s side led 51-38 at the break, but Lithuania stormed back after the restart, taking the third quarter 30-16 to lead 68-67 heading into the final period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They levelled the game at 75-75 before GB&#8217;s men regained control briefly, only for guard Sargiunas to emerge as Lithuania&#8217;s hero and inflict a painful defeat on the hosts at the Copper Box Arena. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/cgmn9re38pmo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuania snatched a thrilling 89-88 victory against Great Britain in their opening match of the 2027 Fiba World Cup qualifiers in London. Ignas Sargiunas, who topped the scoring chart for the visitors with 27 points, bagged the decisive three-pointer in the final second to seal a remarkable comeback after GB had dominated the first half. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35841,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35842,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35840\/revisions\/35842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}