USA – Germany. World Cup semi-final prediction and announcement

The US-Germany meeting will take place on Friday, September 8 in the Philippines. The fight will start at 15.40 Kyiv time. The match will be broadcast live on Xsport TV channel.

An interesting geographical clash took place in the semi-final stage of the World Cup. In both pairs, the European team will compete with the North American representative. Of course, the Canada – Serbia duo is very interesting, but the confrontation between the USA and Germany is even more interesting, because in this the main favorite of the planetary forum will meet a team that has not yet known the pain of defeat. current tournament.

In the quarterfinals, the Americans did not have the slightest problem with Italy. Following Lithuania’s unexpected defeat, Steve Kerr’s wards went into the first game of the play-off stage with as much excitement and sporting fury as could be. The result of the meeting became clear in the middle of the second quarter, when the advantage of Stars and Stripes exceeded twenty points for the first time. Moreover, the US team only increased its advantage, while the Italians did not even have at least a noticeable breakthrough. The last siren recorded the victory of the Americans with an inappropriate score for such a stage – 100:63.

The German national team played a much more difficult match against Latvia. The main sensation of the Bundesteam and the planetary forum performed evenly in the first half, after which the Germans had a slight advantage of 36:34, and the team’s third quarter, taken separately, ended in a draw. Gordy Herbert’s team made a good breakthrough in the fourth ten-minute period, after which Germany took the lead by fourteen points on the score, 74:60. It would seem that the outcome of the match was clear, but even here the Baltic team found the strength to almost completely eliminate the backlog. As a result, after another unsuccessful attack by Denis Schroeder, it all came to a dramatic end in the final seconds, with Latvia’s Davis Bertansh scoring a three-pointer to win, but not on target. As a result, the Germans literally advanced to the semifinals – 81:79.

Oddly enough, today’s rivals don’t have a single player in their roster that would make the list of the 15 World Cup goalscorers. Best among the Americans are Anthony Edwards (20th place, 17.3 points per game) and Denis Schroeder (18th place, 18 points per game) among the Germans. The Toronto Reptors guard could have had a better rating, but he had a lousy game against the Latvians (only 9 points, 4 out of 26 (15.4%) shooting and a -10 efficiency rating).

Of course in the upcoming semi-finals, the USA team is the clear favourite. The Americans are way ahead of other teams in terms of overall team potential and amount of individual talent. However, Steve Kerr’s wards at the current World Cup have already tried the weak player role. While Bundestim coach Gordy Herbert prepared a really well-oiled German contraption for the tournament, he had difficulties in his studies in only two of the six matches (against Australia in the first group stage and Latvia in the quarterfinals), but still never failed. . So today’s rivalry will be between two really strong teams and it’s a bit of a pity that it won’t happen in the final match.

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