The Lithuanian-Ukrainian meeting will take place on Thursday, 24 November in Vilnius. The fight begins at 19.30 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

After the men’s team, it was also the turn of the women’s basketball team. Unlike those under the tutelage of Ainars Bagatskis, who are only struggling to qualify for the 2023 World Cup, Ukrainian girls are struggling to get into the continental forum. And today the “blue-yellow” will play away with the Lithuanian national team.

The first thing to notice when qualifying for the 2023 European Women’s Championship is the large distance between the first and second (available) qualifying windows. It’s over a year old. Our team played its last match in the continental qualifiers on November 14, 2021, and it is now perceived as a date from another life after all the terrible events started.

No wonder the Ukrainian fans of the orange ball forget their team’s standings during such a period. And it’s pretty good for us. Last November, Srdjan Radulovic’s team won two of two matches, including against one of the strongest teams on the continent, the French team (which was also defeated by Finland) and is now confidently leading Group B. However, given the difficult selection, it is too early to relax the system for the European championship. Recall that the winners of the ten qualifying groups and four teams from the runners-up will advance to the final division of the continental championship.

Many things will be decided for our team in the second qualifying window, when the Ukrainians will play two away games against Lithuania and France. According to the results of these meetings, the future prospects of the blue-yellow team will gain clear lines. To prepare for these two most important challenges, our head coach Srdjan Radulovic invited the following athletes:

Alina Yagupova (Fenerbahce, Turkey), Daria Dubnyuk (Bambibre, Spain), Victoria Shmatova (Basilia Potenza, Italy), Victoria Balaban, Ulyana Datsko (both – Neptunas, Lithuania), Miriam Uro-Nile (Castors Brain, Belgium) , Vita Gorobets (Targu-Mures, Romania), Christina Filevich (Frankivsk-Prykarpattya), Tatiana Gavrilchik (Brno, Czech Republic), Tatiana Yurkevichus (Gdynia Arch, Poland ), Anna Ruleva (Turan, Kazakhstan), Olga Maznichenko (Orly Basket) , France) )

Alina Yagupova, the leader of the national team and one of the strongest basketball players in Europe, must lead the ranks and the rest. Ready for the match and other important players of the national team. It is worth noting that only one girl represented the national championship due to the bloody war on the territory of Ukraine, this is Kristina Filevich from Frankivsk-Prykarpattya, all other basketball players named legionnaires.

The Lithuania women’s team was a strong national team by European standards. The golden age came in the 90s, when the Baltic team took the top positions in the continental championships and won in 1997. But in the new millennium, the success of the Lithuanians began to wane. The team was no longer ranked in the Women’s EuroBaskets and even successfully stopped participating in the European Championship after 2015.

Not everything is so simple in Lithuania and the current EuroBasket 2023 qualifiers. First, the Baltic basketball players won a tough home victory over Finland – 69:59, and then on the way they lost to the French team – 56:83. After that, the governing bodies of Lithuanian basketball decided to make changes and appointed a new head coach. The team is now headed by Mantas Shernius, a thirty-nine-year-old specialist who, in parallel with this … is assistant to Prometheus head coach Ronen Ginsburg.

In the upcoming game, Ukraine is the favourite, as can be seen from the betting offers for this match. But the opponent can bring a surprise. It has been a long time since the last official matches of the two teams, and Lithuanian basketball more than deserves a serious and respectful attitude. We hope that the blue-yellow team will prepare well for the next match and continue their streak in the current qualifiers.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

24 November

Lithuania – Ukraine

France – Finland

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