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World champions Spain slumped to another defeat at EuroBasket - edged out by unbeaten Turkey in Lodz.

Centres Asik Omer and Semih Erden combined for 25 points and ten rebounds as Spanish coach Sergio Scariolo (pictured) was left scratching his head, following the 63-60 defeat.

But he questioned a late foul call against Sergio Llull, when the game was still hanging in the balance.

"We saw that Turkey put in four big men and we had quite a good penetrator in Sergio Llull," said Scariolo.

"He beat his man and had a clear advantage. I don't know if it was a foul at the end. It was a very, very close game. Both teams played really hard the whole time. Turkey did better things in the last four or five minutes.

"We had big problems with our opponents getting offensive rebounds. We were playing good defense. We will keep going and we just have to focus on the next game."

Elsewhere, Serbia defeated hosts Poland and a silenced a partisan home crowd with a 77-72 victory.

Lukasz Koszarek kept Poland in a tense encounter but two free-throws by Milenko Tepic and a dunk by star man Nenad Krstic opened up a lead that Serbia professionally protected.

"This is big win for us," said Serbia's Uros Tripkovic.

"We played in a full arena, we played in a visiting court and we won so that shows the character of our team. It was an important win for us in this group.

"We didn't panic when they fought back. We just stayed focused on what we had to do and it was the right way to think."

Elsewhere, Slovenia eased their way past Lithuania 81-58.

Jaka Lakovic scored a game-high 24 points for Jure Zdovc's side meaning Lithuania must now beat both Spain and Serbia in their remaining games to stand a chance of reaching the last eight.

More than the Games / Eurosport