Ukraine – Netherlands. Prediction and announcement for the World Cup qualifying match

The meeting between Ukraine and the Netherlands will take place on Sunday, February 26 in Riga. The fight begins at 18:00 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

Our National Men’s Team will play its last match in the 2023 World Cup qualifiers today. To the great sadness of all fans of Ukrainian basketball, it will no longer be of great importance for tournaments. The wards of Ainars Bagatskis, who lost to Italy last Thursday, even lost their theoretical chance to successfully beat the qualifying tournament.

Currently Ukraine is fifth in Group L and will definitely not be in the top three. The last ticket for the planets forum from our group of six will be played today by the national teams of Georgia and Iceland. There can be a maximum of fourth place for the blue-yellow team. In case of today’s victory and the parallel victory of the Georgia team, our team will move to him. Ukraine will then finish in fourth place, bypassing Iceland.

It cannot be said that this will give great pleasure to all fans and those who are interested in Ukrainian basketball, but it will be of some benefit. The fact is that the results of the current qualification will affect the ranking in the selection for the next major tournaments. Accordingly, the higher the final position, the higher the ranking basket can be in future draws. The wards of Ainars Bagatskis will try to achieve this local success and finish the selection on a positive note in a conditional home match against the Dutch national team, an absolute stranger to our group.

Our opponent was not initially seen as the main competitor to reach the final in the world championship, but even with such preliminary scenarios it is very difficult for the orange team to add the current selection to the asset. The Netherlands have lost absolutely all their matches in qualifying and are confidently occupying the last place in the standings.

The first duel between the teams took place on the 11th of November last year in Almere, the Netherlands. At that time, the blue-yellows had no particular problems with the host, and in the first half of the meeting they took a comfortable lead – 35:59. Then Ukraine slowed down and was already playing by score, but this did not prevent our team from achieving a confident victory – 77:96. The most productive player of the match was Ilya Sidorov. He had 25 points and 5 assists that evening.

At today’s meeting, the Ukrainian team will receive the expected roster increase compared to the match in Italy. He has recovered from health problems and is ready to play Anatoly Shundel and Vladimir Konev. Considering the tournament situation of the upcoming challenge, it is very likely that both of the players mentioned above will be back on the field after a long hiatus (Schundel from autumn 2020 and Konev from September 2018). blue-yellow swimsuit.

The Ukrainian national team will close another chapter in its history with a game against the Netherlands. And although we did not qualify for the world championship, our team will definitely try to please their fans in the end. We look forward to a positive conclusion of local success and not the most successful selection.

Sport.ua forecast: Victory of the Ukrainian team

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February 26

Ukraine – Netherlands
Spain – Italy
Georgia – Iceland