The Ukraine-Poland meeting will be held on Sunday, September 11 in Berlin. The fight starts at 13.00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

After the third round of the EuroBasket group stage, the Ukraine national team took part in the play-offs of the tournament and were slowly preparing for the relegation matches in Berlin, Germany. And on Sunday, our team will play its main game in the continental championship, and the rivals of the wards of Ainars Bagatskis will be the Polish team.

Such a 1/8 final pair was formed after the end of the fights in groups C and D. In the final round, Ukraine lost to Croatia by an acceptable margin and finished in second place in the six C (however, at the end of the final). In the match, it was noteworthy that the Croatians were not openly against this ranking) and the Polish national team was expected to lose to Serbia and fall to third place in group D.

The Polish team seems like a very suitable competitor for our team. The Ukrainians avoided a meeting with the very strong Serbs in 1/8 and parted ways with the Finnish national team playing basketball, which was quite difficult for us (Estonia will not let you lie), with a clear emphasis on the three-pointers. A strong player on their roster from the NBA. The national teams of Poland and Ukraine are in the same weight categories and our basketball players can count on reaching the quarterfinals.

Our geographic neighbors have a long history of performing at major tournaments, but the best pages were written a long time ago. The Polish national team participated in six Olympic Games (last time in 1980) and even took fourth place in the 1936 tournament. At the continental championships, the Poles have three bronze medals (1939, 1965, 1967) and one silver medal (1963). The Poles didn’t have much success at the last European Championship and their best result in the 21st century was ninth place at home at EuroBasket-2009. However, Poland did very well at the 2019 World Cup in China. Then, the white-reds took the last eighth place, leaving enough strong teams behind.

Thanks in large part to the baggage of this successful team, today’s rivals are still leaving. The list of our neighbors at the current EuroBasket is exactly 50% similar to the roster of the tournament in China three years ago. Also, all the main players like Mateusz Ponitka, AJ Slaughter, Alexander Balcerowski, Michal Sokolowski are in the ranks. The Polish talent pool could have been even stronger, but the young potential Jeremy Sohan (9th in the 2022 draft and a very promising basketball player) did not come to the tournament.

Overall, the full composition of the Polish national team at EuroBasket 2022 is as follows:

advocates: AJ Slaughter (Gran Canaria, Spain), Lukas Kolenda (Shlensk), Michal Michalak (Metropolitan, France), Jakub Garbach (Island Wielkopolski), Jakub Schenk (Tour, France)

Striker: Jaroslav Ziskowski (Trefl Sopot), Michal Sokolowski (Treviso, Italy), Aaron Chel (Torun), Mateusz Ponitka (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Alexander Dzeiva (Shlensk)

Centre: Alexander Balcerowski (Gran Canaria, Spain), Dominik Olezniczak (Gravelin, France)

The biggest contribution to team success is probably made by the four leaders of the Polish team. The team’s top sniper is Michal Sokolowski, averaging 12.2 points per game. Next up is naturalized American AJ Slaughter, who averaged 12 points per game with 38.2% on 3-pointers. He is followed by the main tall man of the team, Alexander Baltserovski, filling the piggy bank with an average of 11.8 points per game. True, he also does not get a lot of rebounds – 4.2 per game, the same number for defender Michal Sokolovsky. Mateusz Ponitka closes this foursome with 11.4 points, but at the same time, the Polish player does a lot of work on defense and is the team’s best assistant (6.4 assists).

Poland played five matches at EuroBasket 2022. In them, our neighbors won three victories and suffered two defeats. Moreover, in addition to the logical failure in the match with Serbia, the Poles suffered a uniform defeat from Finland. The full list of results from our competitors today is as follows:

09/02/2022. Poland – Czech Republic – 99:84

09/03/2022. Finland – Poland – 59:89

09/05/2022. Poland – Israel – 85:76

09/06/2022. Netherlands – Poland – 69:75

09/08/2022 Serbia – Poland – 96:69

It is worth noting that the national teams of Ukraine and Poland played a friendly match before the start of the EuroBasket. At the preparatory tournament in Turkey on August 12, the wards of Ainars Bagatskis beat the white-red – 88:60. And then Alexei Len did not play in our team, but the Poles also did not have a naturalized American AJ Slaughter.

Of course, this match will be the most important for the “blue-yellows” in the tournament. This victory will allow Ainars Bagatskis team to become one of the top eight teams in Europe and will be on par with Latvian head coach Mike according to the Ukraine team’s final result in EuroBaskets. Fratello himself. The opponent is not easy, but quite feasible. All that remains is to wish our men to come together and show their basketball. If they play the same as most of the group stage, our team will be on their way to the continental championship.

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