Ukraine – Finland. Prediction and announcement for the European Championship qualifying match

The match between Ukraine and Finland will be played on Thursday, November 12 in Riga. The fight begins at 7:00 pm Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

Our team’s performance in the EuroBasket 2023 selection is reminiscent of a sine wave. And very such an amplitude sinusoid. After the first game window with +29 wins against France, one of Europe’s strongest national teams in women’s basketball, our chances of playing in the final part of the continental championship skyrocketed. And they dropped drastically after the second game window. First, Srdjan Radulovic’s wards lost -19 to Lithuania and fell from the first place in the group, and then the French women’s away defeat – 88:109 and put us completely in third place in the B-quartet. .

Now our girls need to rectify the situation. They must win their last two qualifying matches against the Finnish and Lithuanian national teams. Moreover, this is far from guaranteeing Ukrainians access to the 2023 European Championship. Let’s be clear: the French will not miss the first place. The Blue-Yellows have to fight for the second place with the Lithuanian national team. But even finishing after the favorite guarantees absolutely nothing.

According to the tournament regulations, only four teams out of the ten qualifying groups will go to EuroBasket 2023. Also, after the main criterion – the number of points scored, the difference in goals in personal meetings is counted. The results of the fourth teams of their quartet are not taken into account. And here our team is not in very good shape. Assuming that France, Ukraine and Lithuania will make the top three (and 99% likely will), then we currently have a goal difference of -21. To understand the complexity of the task, it is worth saying that before the fifth round of selection, those who passed from the second to the fourth place had the numbers +17. This isn’t the rosiest math. But let’s put pessimism aside. As long as our girls have a chance, we need to hug them. To begin with, we have to beat the Finnish national team from outside our group.

The women’s team from the country of Suomi ranks at the bottom of European basketball, but has shown a positive trend in results recently. If in the EuroBasket 2019 qualifiers the northerners lost all six games in the group to the teams of France, Slovenia and Romania by a combined margin of -201 points, then in the EuroBasket 2021 qualifiers the Finns have already finished qualifying. a victory in existence (70:62 against Portugal). And although the Finnish girls have not yet won in the current election of EuroBasket 2023, they had a serious fight against the Ukrainians and Lithuanians, as well as the expected defeat from France. In three fights against more luxurious opponents, they never lost more than ten points.

The first match between Ukraine and Finland in the current qualifiers took place on 14 November in Helsinki. Although Alina Yagupova and her team are the clear favorites of the match, the match itself cannot be called simple for our girls. Ukraine was the leader throughout the match, but the hosts were consistently within one attacking distance. Fortunately it didn’t happen. The last siren recorded the victory of our team – 71:77.

It is worth noting that Ukraine’s EuroBasket 2023 selection will play both final games in Riga, which has already become the native of our basketball, and the following basketball players were invited for the decisive matches in our team:

Alina Yagupova (Fenerbahce, Turkey), Olga Alekseychik, Kristina Filevich (both – Frankivsk-Prykarpattya), Victoria Balaban, Ulyana Datsko (both – Neptunas, Lithuania), Miriam Uro-Nile (Castors Brain, Belgium), Vita Gorobets (Tigru- Muresh, Romania), Tatyana Gavrilchik (Falcon, Czech Republic), Tatyana Yurkevichus (Lublin, Poland), Olga Maznichenko (Orly Basket, France), Yulia Musienko ( Kara, France), Daria Dubnyuk (Bambibre, Spain).

The task before our girls is very difficult and their chances of reaching the final part of EuroBasket-2023 are obviously very low. But we will rely on the favor of luck and a good combination of results in other groups. By the way, it is necessary to start with a victory over Finland.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

February 9

Ukraine – Finland

Lithuania – France

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