The Netherlands-Ukraine meeting will be held on Friday, November 11 in Almere. The fight starts at 20:00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

After a busy second half of August – the first part of September, which featured the planetary forum and a qualifying window for EuroBasket 2022, the men’s basketball teams were overshadowed and replaced by club battles. However, less than two months later, the time for the fifth game window in the 2023 World Cup selection has entered the European basketball calendar. The Ukrainian national team will explore on Friday evening in the Netherlands, where they will play with the hardwood hosts.

It’s better to remain cautiously quiet about our chances of getting closer to the last four games in qualifying. The sensational August defeat in Iceland left Ukraine with very, very difficult options for elimination. There are mandatory victories for the blue-yellows and many necessary results in other matches of our sixes. So let’s limit ourselves to the banal, you have to play every match to win, then we’ll see.

The Ukrainian national team, led by Ainars Bagatskis, will continue their adventures in the 2023 World Cup selections. After the conclusion of EuroBasket 2022, the contract with the FBU for the Latvian specialist expired and everything went to the fact that our team will have a new head coach. However, the parties extended the agreement until the end of this qualifying round.

The mentor of the blue-yellow team remained the same, but the roster for the matches of the fifth qualifying window was noticeably updated compared to the EuroBasket application. In general, the coaching team called the following basketball players to prepare for the Netherlands and Iceland matches:

advocates: Ilya Sidorov, Denis Lukashov (both Prometheus), Ilya Tirtyshnik (Budivelnik)

Striker: Vyacheslav Bobrov, Pavel Krutous (both – “Budivelnik”), Ivan Tkachenko, Alexander Lipovy (both – “Prometheus”), Andrey Voinalovich (“Tartu”, Estonia), Sergey Pavlov (“Parnu”, Estonia), Artem Kovalev (” Pieno Zvaigzhdes (Lithuania), Vladimir Gerun (Betis, Spain)

Centre: Vyacheslav Kravtsov (Menorca, Spain)

The Ukrainian squad looks really unusual. It is quite logical that Alexey Len and Svyatoslav Mikhailyuk are not in it, you should not count on them during the season, but besides this, there are many more changes. The main team’s reinforced concrete players Bogdan Bliznyuk and Artem Pustovoy asked not to be called to the November window, motivated by personal reasons, and the coaching team went to meet them, and EuroBasket participant Dmitry Skapintsev is now trying his hand. G-League. Pavel Krutous, Andrey Voinalovich, Sergey Pavlov and Artem Kovalev, who left before the European Championship, were invited to the vacancies. Alexander Lipovy recovered from injury, and Vyacheslav Kravtsov returned to the national team for the N-th return in the frontcourt.

But due to injuries, our back line has a blunt appearance. Before the qualifying matches, the first called up Issuf Sanon, Vitaliy Zotov and Alexander Kovlyar were injured, so Ainars Bagatskis had to hastily call Ilya Tirtishnik, who was recognized from the matches in the Kyiv-Basket and is currently defending the colors of Europe. budivelnik In the coming days, the young player of the “builders” can make his debut in official matches for the national team of Ukraine. Thus, seven of the twelve basketball players who played in the last European Championship will miss the November games for various reasons.

Our closest competitor in the Dutch national team is not even among the continental middle peasants, but has recently shown a steady trend towards improving results. After a long hiatus in the finals of major tournaments, the Oranges managed to qualify for EuroBasket 2015 (21st overall) and EuroBasket 2022 (22nd overall). At the last European Championship, the Dutch basketball players were expected to lose all five games in the group, but in each of them they showed a will to fight and even managed to get on the nerves of the teams of Israel, Czech Republic and Poland.

There are no European basketball stars in the Benelux team. After the end of EuroBasket 2022, the national team’s potential decreased even more and the leader of the orange, Vorti de Jong, completed his performances in classical basketball. The talented player decided to focus on 3×3 basketball. In his absence, Greek club “PAOK” defender Yannick Franke and his back line colleague Charlon Kloof from Portugal “Porto” should lead the team.

Ukraine is the clear favorite in the Netherlands match. However, the last loss to Iceland in the World Cup qualifiers is still very fresh in the memories. So do not create illusions about an easy walk in Almere. The duel will not be easy, but the individual skills and experience of our team leaders should play a role.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

11 November

Holland – Ukraine

Iceland – Georgia

Italy – Spain

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