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

The duel between Ukraine and Lithuania will be played on Sunday, February 12 in Riga. The fight begins at 16:00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

The fifth qualifying round of EuroBasket 2023, which took place last Thursday, was a preparation for our team for the main game of all qualifiers. The Blue-Yellows scored a mission victory over Finland. Similarly, France beat Lithuania more than expected. And now, in a personal meeting, the Ukrainians and Lithuanians will play for the second place in group B, which will provide an opportunity to qualify for the final part of the continental championship.

Initially, it was clear that Finland would be the fourth in our quartet and that the results of the two talks with the northerners would not have serious significance for the Ukrainians. But today Alina Yagupova and the company will have to give everything. The wards of Srdzhan Radulovic need the biggest possible victory against the Baltic team to participate in the upcoming European Championship.

Recall that only the top four teams from runners-up in the ten qualifying groups will go to EuroBasket 2023. Moreover, this rating will not take into account the encounter with the fourth teams of their quartet. It is already clear that not a single team will achieve the indicators of three wins and one loss. Accordingly, in personal meetings, everything will be determined according to the target difference. Now for our girls -21, which is very, very bad.

At the moment there are many options for the development of events. Suffice it to say that the Israeli team, one of the hosts of the future championship playing out of competition in this election, will definitely be second in its group with one of the best results in the consolidated standings. This opens a bonus slot for the fifth best team in the second place. The second home country (the Slovenian national team) can play a similar trick if the Poles win, and then even reach the EuroBasket in sixth place. And if our western neighbors beat the Balkans, then with a 99% probability they will get one of the coupons with their own hands. In general, there are really a lot of tournament scenarios, and it is extremely difficult to name the exact difference that Ukrainians need in a match with Lithuanians.

Unfortunately, our opponent is not the kind of team that could easily make a big difference in a match with him. The Lithuanians were a strong national team by European standards. Their 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 Baltic women began to decline. The team no longer tops the Women’s EuroBaskets and even successfully stopped participating in the European Championship after 2015.

Now the Lithuanians are not so formidable anymore, but they still remain very dangerous opponents. This was fully felt by our team when they were heavily defeated by today’s opponent on November 24 last year. Ukraine was the favourite in that game, but after losing rebounds (39 against 48) and showing an extremely low 3-pointer percentage (9 out of 44, 20.5%), the blue-and-yellow team suffered a delicate defeat. – 62:81.

Now this fiasco is pulling Srzhdan Radulovic’s cover from EuroBasket 2023 in the opposite direction. However, it can still be fixed. All that remains is to wish our girls to show their best games at the most necessary moment and get a big win. And in no case do not relax, focus as much as possible until the final whistle. Every point scored, every rebound and unfortunately every miss can be decisive. And then you have to be patient and wait until late in the evening for the tournament battles in Europe to complete.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

February 12

Ukraine – Lithuania

Finland – France

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1.46 15.0 2.70 make a bet zrobbite bet