South Sudan – Philippines. Prediction and announcement about the World Cup match

South Sudan v Philippines match will be played on Thursday 31 August in Philippines. The meeting will begin at 15:00 Kiev time.

The first group stage of the FIBA ​​World Cup has come to an end. Based on the results, the top sixteen teams will continue to compete in the second round, and the same number of less successful teams will play in the 17-32 consolation tournament. They are the ones who will start the struggle on the last day of summer.

The duel between the Philippines and South Sudan stands out in the schedule of today’s match day. After the clearly unsuccessful first stage, the hosts of the tournament will try to rehabilitate themselves in the company of seemingly weaker opponents, and the new player from Africa clearly plans to continue his invaluable performance in the championship.

South Sudan

Those who play for the first time in the world championship organize a very good tournament. Having spent ten years as a player in the NBA and also coached various clubs in the world’s strongest league for seven years, mentor Royal Ivey’s team came to the World Cup as a black horse, but still had every chance to get out of the groups.

The key for the Africans was their first-round match against Puerto Rico. The Sudanese were supposed to win this match, but they could not close the finish and allowed the Puerto Ricans to transfer the match into overtime, where the more experienced opponents turned out to be stronger – 96:101. After that, South Sudan won a sure 89:69 victory over the world champion losing China, and then suffered the biggest defeat in its short history (African team recently joined FIBA, December 2013) from Serbia – 83:115 .

The leader of South Sudan is naturalized American defender Curlick Jones. He scored a total of 59 points (an average of 19.7 points per game) in three games of the first stage and was ranked eighth in the tournament’s top scorers rankings. Jones is also not forgetting his teammates. He ranks fourth on the list of best assistants, averaging 7.7 assists per game.

Philippines

The hosts of the World Cup placed huge bets on the current tournament, but in reality everything turned out not to be as they wanted. The Filipinos, who were not the most difficult group in the first group stage, did not win even a single win despite three close matches. And if the defeat of the Dominican Republic (in the first round) – 81:87 and Italy (in the third) – 83:90 can still be attributed to the strength of the opponents, then the fiasco from Angola (in the second game day) – 70:80 worldwide It was unexpected for many basketball fans.

The main and only star of the team is naturalized NBA representative Jordan Clarkson. The Utah Jazz guard scored 72 points in three games and ranks third in the tournament for average performance (24 points per game). However, its performance is not very bright. Clarkson is far from outstanding shooting performance (36.4% on two-pointers and 14.3% on long-range shots). By both indicators, he is the worst of the twenty top scorers of the championship. Additionally, what largely predetermined the Philippines’ defeat was their expulsion due to too many fouls in the opening match against the Dominican Republic.

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Although the teams will not be able to go beyond the seventeenth place, the match is still awaited with great interest. The home team will try not to lose their credibility in front of their local fans and claim their first win of the tournament, and South Sudan is now writing its own basketball tale and clearly has no intention of stopping. Also note that not a single representative from Asia and Africa made the Top 16, which is 17-32 of the fate of Olympic licenses from these continents. It means that the place will be determined in the consolation tournament to be held.

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