{"id":486273,"date":"2026-03-02T21:09:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=486273"},"modified":"2026-03-02T21:09:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T20:09:39","slug":"biberovic-delivers-again-as-turkey-complete-the-sweep-over-serbia-in-istanbul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/biberovic-delivers-again-as-turkey-complete-the-sweep-over-serbia-in-istanbul\/","title":{"rendered":"Biberovi\u0107 delivers again as Turkey complete the sweep over Serbia in Istanbul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1830\" data-end=\"2244\">Turkey beat Serbia <strong data-start=\"1896\" data-end=\"1905\">94-86<\/strong> in the World Cup 2027 qualifiers: top scorers <strong data-start=\"1952\" data-end=\"1974\">Tarik Biberovi\u0107 21<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"1979\" data-end=\"2002\">Aleksa Avramovi\u0107 16<\/strong>, with <strong data-start=\"2009\" data-end=\"2036\">\u00d6mer Faruk Yurtseven 17<\/strong> and <strong data-start=\"2041\" data-end=\"2060\">\u0160ehmus Hazer 15<\/strong> key for the hosts and <strong data-start=\"2083\" data-end=\"2103\">Ognjen Dobri\u0107 14<\/strong> for Serbia. It was Turkey\u2019s second win over Serbia in three days, following the game in Belgrade, leaving Serbia <strong data-start=\"2217\" data-end=\"2224\">2-2<\/strong> after four games.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2246\" data-end=\"2495\">Turkey created separation early, leading 28-21 after one quarter and stretching it to <strong data-start=\"2332\" data-end=\"2341\">41-25<\/strong> early in the second. Serbia responded with a strong run to pull within <strong data-start=\"2413\" data-end=\"2434\">48-44 at halftime<\/strong>, capped by Avramovi\u0107 scoring on the last play of the half.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2497\" data-end=\"2812\">Serbia got as close as two in the third and even had a possession to take the lead, but defensive lapses and rushed threes swung momentum back to Turkey, who carried a <strong data-start=\"2665\" data-end=\"2674\">76-63<\/strong> lead into the fourth. Turkey then managed the finish, leaning on Biberovi\u0107 and timely shots from Osmani to close out the 94-86 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second loss in three days for Du\u0161an Alimpijevi\u0107\u2019s Serbia, who rally but fall short, 94-86<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":486274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[297,313,383],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-486273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-serbia","category-turkey","category-world-cup"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2026\/03\/Biberovic.webp","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486273\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486273"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=486273"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=486273"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=486273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}