The meeting between Joventut and Prometheus will take place in Spain on Wednesday, November 29. The match will start at 21.30 Kyiv time.

Ronen Ginzburg’s team gradually approached the equator of the European Cup regular season. And in the ninth round, which will complete the first round, our team will again play a very important match for the tournament. “Prometheus” will go to visit the Spanish “Joventut”, which is just one victory of the “giants”.

The Catalan club has a proud history. Founded in 1930, Joventut has won the European Champions Cup (1993/1994 season), ULEB Cup (2007/2008 season), FIBA ​​Europe Cup (2005/2006 season), and two Koraç Cups in its 93-year history. At home, Joventut won the Spanish championship four times, won the Spanish Cup eight times and took home the Super Cup twice.

Currently, Prometheus’ rivals are considered in Spain to be the so-called favorites of the second tier, slightly inferior to the well-known giants Real and Barcelona, ​​but breathing behind the domestic tops. . Thus, Joventut took seventh place in the regular season in the last championship of Spain, defeated Euroleague participant Baskonia 2-0 in the quarter-final play-off series, and rolled up its sleeves in front of Real Madrid in the semi-finals – 1: 3. This season, Prometheus’ rivals in the ASV League are still performing well below their capabilities; After eleven matches played, they have five wins in assets and six losses in responsibility, placing them in the current eleventh place in the rankings.

All is not well at Joventut on the international stage. Before the start of the European Cup, the Spaniards were among the teams in contention to win the tournament, but after almost halfway through the group stage, the former semi-finalist failed to even get into the play-off zone and is one of the best so far. The main disappointments of the season in the second European Cup.

Results of the matches of the Spanish club in the 2023/2024 European Cup:

4 October. “Joventut” (Spain) – “Beşiktaş” (Türkiye) – 62:63

11 October. “Cedevita Olimpia” (Slovenia) – “Joventut” (Spain) – 87:88 (Overtime)

18 October. “Joventut” (Spain) – “Wolves” (Lithuania) – 107:98 (OT)

24 October. “Venice” (Italy) – “Joventut” (Spain) – 79:64

31 October. “Joventut” (Spain) – “Hamburg” (Germany) – 108:76

8 November. Joventut (Spain) – London Lions (Great Britain) – 76:87

14 November. “Joventut” (Spain) – “Paris” (France) – 94:101 (OT)

22 November. “Hapoel Tel Aviv” (Israel) – “Joventut” (Spain) – 103:99

It is doubly surprising that Joventut shows such mediocre results, despite having a very serious team that will solve the problems of the team’s coaching staff. Here are Croatian big man Ante Tomic, who has experience playing in the Euroleague, experienced veteran Pau Ribas, who won the 2015 EuroBasket and 2019 World Cup with the Spanish national team, and American big man Deshaun Thomas and… The European part of his career went to Spain before the summer transfer. was transferred. The club consisted solely of Euroleague teams and a few players from a wide range of national teams. Joventut’s statistical leaders in the European Cup are Dominican Republic national team defender Andres Feliz, who has already missed several matches due to injury (average 13.3 points + 4 rebounds + 4.3 assists per game, efficiency rate – 19.7 points) and colleague USA’s Andrew Andrews is on the back line (17.7 points + 4 assists, efficiency rate – 18.8 points).

More changes were made to the composition of “Prometheus” compared to last week. The club officially announced the separation from American Davon Reed and managed to get Gian Clavell, one of the key basketball players of our team last year, into the European Cup and LABL. The Puerto Rican defender arrived at the Slobozhansk club with an injury that has not yet fully healed and did not play in last weekend’s match against Estonian Kalev. – 103:72. However, Clavell’s appearance in a Titans jersey will definitely happen in the near future. Also, the problem that has already been solved is the return of Denis Lukashov and American DJ Kennedy to the team. However, for now they are not included in the Ukrainian club’s application for the European Cup tournament.

It is worth noting that last season Prometheus and Joventut also found themselves in the same group in the European Cup and exchanged home victories with the same score difference. First the Spaniards won with 82:77, and in the second round Ronen Ginzburg’s team took revenge in Riga with a score of 95:90.

While today’s rivals were fighting for the last victory in the group last season, now the teams are focused on the play-off fight. Moreover, for the Spaniards, the upcoming match will be almost critical, because in case of defeat they will risk gaining a serious advantage over their main rivals before the second round. However, for Prometheus the importance of the match in Catalonia will increase, because the “giants” suffered a lot of losses at the beginning of the tournament, and among their rivals there is also a direct rival. It will be difficult, but Slobozhan’s team has a chance to play successfully in Spain and complete the first round of the European Cup group stage with a positive win-lose ratio.

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