The match between Italy and Ukraine will be played on Thursday, February 23 in Livorno. The fight begins at 22:00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

The long-running elections for the 2023 World Cup are coming to an end. National teams all over the planet must be in the final qualifying window. It will include an away match against Italy and a home match against the Netherlands for the Ukraine team.

The tournament position of the “blue-yellow” team is not easy, but it has no chance of success. To play in the planet forum, the wards of Ainars Bagatskis must win both matches and count on Iceland vs Georgia to lose at least once in their match. There are options where this may not be enough to successfully surpass our team’s qualifications, but these are more from the theory category, so we won’t focus on them.

The Ukrainian national team will start the decisive game window with an away match against Italy. The Apennines are second in our group with six wins and two losses and have already secured a ticket to the world forum. Therefore, the coaching staff of our opponents, led by Gianmarco Pozzeco, has every moral right to devote their final playoffs to improving their playing connections and looking for the nearest substitute. To some extent, this assumption turned out to be correct. If you look at the Italian national team’s roster for this match against Ukraine, there will be only four players (Nico Mannion, Marco Spissu, Giampaolo Ricci and Paul Biliga) who will fight for our team on 24 August in Riga. And compared to the Squadra Azzurra app for the last EuroBasket 2022, Amedeo Tessitori is added to them.

In general, the application of the Italy national team to the Ukraine match is as follows:

Defender: Nico Mannion (Virtus Bologna), Marco Spissu (Venice), Diego Flaccadori (Trento), Giordano Bortolani (Verona), Riccardo Visconti (Pesaro), Thomas Voldetense (Varese)

Forwards: Giampaolo Ricci (Milan), Riccardo Moraschini (Venice), Guglielmo Caruso (Venice), Luca Severini (Tortona)

Headquarters: Paul Biliga (Milan), Amedeo Tessitori (Venice)

As you can see, the composition of the Italians is truly experimental. It lacks many famous basketball players. But that doesn’t mean the Appeninians won’t be playing to win in front of their fans, and wanted players won’t want to fully express themselves in front of Gianmarco Pozzeco.

Resisting this variant of the Italian national team will be very good for the composition of our national team in the middle of the season. For the final matches of the qualifying stage, the technical delegation of the Ukrainian national team invited the following basketball players:

Defenders: Ilya Sidorov, Issuf Sanon, Denis Lukashov (all – Prometheus), Anatoly Shundel (TalTech, Estonia), Alexander Kovlyar (Kalev, Estonia)

Forwards: Vyacheslav Bobrov, Bogdan Bliznyuk, Vladimir Konev (all – Budivelnik), Alexander Lipovy (Prometheus), Vladimir Gerun (Betis, Spain), Andrey Voinalovich (Tartu, Estonia)

Headquarters: Artem Pustovoy (Murcia, Spain)

Key players like Issuf Sanon, Bogdan Bliznyuk and Artem Pustovoi have returned to the national team after missing the December playing window. The application also includes a possible socialite – subsequent fights for Alexander Kovlyar could be the first in the adult team. Two basketball players who returned to the main team after a long break draw attention. Volodymyr Konev, who is the only representative of the Ukrainian Super League in the national team, last played in the blue-yellow team in September 2018, while Anatoly Shundel achieved such a privilege in only two matches in November 2020. Among the losses of our team, the absence of Prometheus junior forward Ivan Tkachenko, who became an important component of the Ukrainian national team last year, is noteworthy.

But not everyone in the current squad of the Ukrainian national team will play with the Italians. Anatoly Shundel and Vladimir Konev did not fly to the Apennines due to health problems. The absence of the latter threatens to become particularly vulnerable, as our frontcourt rotation could turn into a very limited rotation. And here we can also recall the absence of the senior player of the national team, Vyacheslav Kravtsov, who was not released by his club (the February window for matches of national teams in the Taiwan championship is not provided).

But our team has enough staff potential to beat such a version of Italy. It will not be easy, the full stands (the match is expected to be closed) will put the hosts ahead from the first minutes, but the blue-yellows have to put up with it. There is no room for error for the Ukrainian team, and the wards of Ainars Bagatskis understand this very well and will try to improve their ranking in the tournament. All that remains is to believe in our team and wish success in the most important match.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

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February 23

Italy – Ukraine

Iceland – Spain

Netherlands – Georgia

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