Prometheus-Hamburg. Prediction and announcement for the European Cup match

The meeting between Prometheus and Hamburg will take place in Riga on Wednesday, October 4. The match will start at 19.00 Kyiv time.

Today Slobozhansky “Prometheus” will open a new European Cup season. The Titans will make their second consecutive appearance in the European Cup, the second highest tournament in the hierarchy of European basketball club tournaments (albeit with a slight advantage over the FIBA ​​Champions League).

Last season, the Ukrainian club became the main excitement of this tournament and managed to reach the semi-finals in its first draw. In the new season 2023/2024 this will be even more difficult, because the number of great teams has increased compared to last year, the opponents will be more serious about Prometheus than before, and the tournament structure has also become a little more complicated. .

Twenty clubs, divided into two sub-groups, will participate in the European Cup. According to the draw, the “giants” will be in Group A and their opponents will be: “Beşiktaş” (Turkey), “Hamburg” (Germany), “Venice” (Italy), “Wolves” (Lithuania), “Joventut” (Spain). , London Lions (Great Britain), Paris (France), Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) and Cedevita Olimpia (Slovenia).After a very long regular season of eighteen rounds, the best six teams from each top ten (last season eight teams) In addition, the top two clubs from each group will immediately advance to the quarter-finals, and the third to sixth placed participants will compete in additional qualifying matches. The champion, and in some cases the European Cup finalist, will be the winner of the strongest club tournament in the Old World It is worth noting that he will buy a ticket to the Euroleague, which is very difficult to participate in.

The first opponent of Ronen Ginsburg’s team on such a long game path will be the German “Hamburg”. Hamburg Towers basketball club (that’s the full name of the team) is a fairly young team. It was founded in 2013 and has been a member of the elite German league since the 2019/2020 season. And if “Hamburg” could not consider itself advantageous in the first year of being among the best (seventeenth place in the final), in the next two seasons the team from seventh place entered the play-offs and stopped its progress in the tournament at the quarter-final stage. However, Prometheus’ rival had a very poor last Bundesliga, finishing fifteenth out of a possible eighteen and as the season progressed he thought more about maintaining his place among the elite of German basketball than about the play-offs.

This season will be Hamburg’s third consecutive season in the European Cup. The Germans have twice previously finished bottom of the play-off zone in the group stage (2021/2022 season – seventh place, 2022/2023 – eighth place) and were then immediately eliminated in the first round of the post-season. It is worth noting that in the last draw, Prometheus and Hamburg’s tournament paths crossed at the 1/8 final stage. Slobozhan team defeated its opponent 87:79 in the match played in Riga on April 11, which left no room for error, and ended the German club’s European Cup struggle.

Before the new season, Prometheus’ rival team updated its roster by about half. The changes mainly affected the foreign part of the squad. As of last season, only American defender Seth Heinrich remained in Hamburg. Among the most notable transfers, it is worth highlighting the big man Alexander Dzewa, one of the leaders of the Polish Slask, as well as the American defender Mark Hughes, who played quite successfully in the Spanish second division for Estudiantes last year. Key players from the German half of the team also continue to play for Hamburg; big man Jonas Wohlfahrt-Bottermann (EuroBasket 2022 bronze medalist) and forward Lukas Meissner.

Hamburg didn’t start the season in the worst way. The team played 3 matches before and won two of them. In the first match of the new playing year (twenty-fourth September), Prometheus’ opponent in the first round of the German Cup beat second league Dresden 88:85, after which Hamburg made a successful start to the Bundesliga with a score of 13-0 . Away win in a match where Ludwigsburg was very strong – 87:79. However, it did not take long for the first defeat to come. In the second round of the local championship, Hamburg lost at home to Würzburg, 58:88.

Unlike the German club, Prometheus have only played one official match so far. Last Saturday the “giants” started the LEBL with a crushing victory of 106:61 against the Estonian “Viimsi”. Ronen Ginzburg’s team gives the impression of being well-prepared and seriously equipped, but they continue to struggle with a problem dating back to last season: an abnormally high number of injuries. Suffice it to say that most of the club’s basketball players have suffered various injuries lately, and Lithuanian Arnoldas Kulboka is completely out of the squad until the end of the season, without playing a single official match with the Ukrainian team.

For Prometheus, the Hamburg match will be the first serious test of the new season. In terms of composition, the Slobozhans look objectively stronger, but the fact that the Titans partially collapsed in the off-season due to multiple injuries of players, the loss of the profile sniper and the factor of the start of the season, which always favors unexpected results, makes them stronger. Today’s meeting is very interesting. We hope that there will be no sensations and Prometheus will successfully open a new page in the history of the club and finish its first match in the 2023/2024 European Cup with a confident victory.

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