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London Lions – Prometheus. Prediction and announcement for the European Cup match
The meeting between London Lions and Prometheus will take place in London on Wednesday, December 20. The match will start at 21.30 Kyiv time.
In the twelfth round of the 2023/2024 European Cup regular season, Prometheus will have to play a very difficult match away. The opponent of Slobozhansky’s club will be the English London Lions, who are in one of the leading positions of Group A and have so far clearly confirmed their high aim in the second European Cup tournament.
After eleven matches played, the current champions of Great Britain are in third place in the table and have almost secured the play-offs. During the completed journey, the “London Lions” won eight victories and left the field losing only three times. Moreover, two of these three fiascos occurred in the matches against the strongest teams of our group, the French “Paris” and the Israeli “Hapoel” from Tel Aviv. The only sensational thing was last week’s home defeat against Germany’s Hamburg, where the London Lions clearly played below their abilities.
The trip to Riga in October was also successful for the British, and they defeated the Ukrainian “Prometheus”, who was in an open game crisis at that time, in a productive game. Slobozhan’s team was not helped by the fact that the first quarter was extremely productive; “giants” won with a score of 30:19. London Lions then imposed their own game on the Ukrainian club, winning in each of the next three separate ten-minute periods and celebrating the final victory with a score of 87:99.
London Lions’ 2023/2024 European Cup results:
4 October. “London Lions” (Great Britain) – “Venice” (Italy) – 76:69
10 October. “Hamburg” (Germany) – “London Lions” (Great Britain) – 94:100
18 October. “Prometheus” (Ukraine) – “London Lions” (Great Britain) – 87:99
24 October. “London Lions” (Great Britain) – “Paris” (France) – 102:106
2 November. London Lions (England) – Hapoel Tel Aviv (Israel) – 90:98
8 November. Joventut (Spain) – London Lions (Great Britain) – 76:87
15 November. “Beşiktaş” (Türkiye) – “London Lions” (England) – 80:83
22 November. London Lions (Great Britain) – Cedevita Olimpia (Slovenia) – 101:95
28 November. “Wolves” (Lithuania) – “London Lions” (Great Britain) – 87:101
5 December. “Venice” (Italy) – “London Lions” (Great Britain) – 91:95
13 December. London Lions (Great Britain) – Hamburg (Germany) – 81:83
Speaking of the personalities of the London club, Gabe Olaseni should of course be highlighted. The English big man has excellent statistics according to the results of 11 matches played (17.9 points + 8 rebounds + 2.5 assists) and his average efficiency rate is 23 points, which is currently the best in the European Cup. It is worth noting that in addition to Olaseni, two other London Lions basketball players were among the top twenty players of the tournament in the event rankings. They are defenseman Matthew Morgan (17.6 points – 10th place) and his namesake, forward Connor Morgan (17.2 points – 15th place). Perhaps the real danger for Slobozhansky’s club will come from this trio and the mental leader of the team, Sam Dekker, who closed the Riga match with a magnificent buzzer beater in the Prometheus ring two months ago.
The most important feature of this meeting will be that it will bring together the two teams that recruit the most players in the European Cup. After eleven rounds, Prometheus leads the European Cup with the second highest rebound average (38.9), while the London Lions are well behind the Ukrainian club (38.2 rebounds). So, the outcome of the fight between two strong fronts today will be one of the determining factors.
The teams from Ukraine and England are not direct rivals in the rankings. The British Lions are slowly settling into the play-offs but the Titans still need to put in a lot of effort to get there. However, the victory in the personal match will be very important for Ronen Ginzburg’s team, because after a not entirely successful first round, Slobozhans needs to win, including in matches with the leaders. And it wouldn’t hurt to take the price for a defeat in a home match.
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Bayern announced the appointment of the team’s head coach on its official website. Svetislav Pesic.
The most successful coach in German basketball history signed a contract with Munich until the end of the season.
The Serbian specialist will replace Gordon Herbert as head coach, with whom the German champions agreed to end their cooperation early by mutual consent.
76-year-old Pesic took over as head of Bayern Munich for the second time. He first joined the Munich team in the autumn of 2012 and remained with them until 2016, winning the first Bundesliga title in the club’s history in 2014.
Svetislav’s greatest achievements include the 2002 World Cup title with Yugoslavia, the 1993 European Championship victory with the German team, and the gold medal at EuroBasket 2001 with Yugoslavia. At club level, the Serbian specialist won the treble in Spain, including winning the Euroleague with Barcelona in 2003. Alba won five championships and two German Cups with Berlin.
In 2024, Pesic won the Olympic bronze medal with the Serbian national team, which he led until last summer, by beating Germany and finishing third in the match.
Source: Sport UA
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Head coach of BC Zaporozhye Dmitry Shchiglinsky He summarized the results of the team’s last matches in 2025 against Krivbass (68:84) and Niko-Basket (78:67).
“Going into the last calendar bubble this year we clearly understood how important this was for us in terms of tournament position. “Krivbass” were right behind us in the table and “Niko-Basket” were playing at home, so both matches promised to be extremely difficult. We were also without our captain Anton Buts, who was injured, which significantly affected the preparations.
We had a bad start to our match against Krivbass, the opponent scored their first long range shots, became confident and kept control of the match for most of the game. We managed to reduce the difference to 4 points in the fourth quarter, but unfortunately we did not have the strength to do more. Krivbass’ last attack with 11:0 gave them an important victory. In the absence of Anton Buts, they had to use rotation and it was not easy for Vyacheslav Kiktev to counter the opponent’s big players.
Our expectations were also the highest for our second match against Niko-Basket. We recently met with this team at the Ukrainian Cup and made a comprehensive analysis. I would like to thank my assistant for her quality work. We analyzed the mistakes in the previous match in detail and focused on playing defense. Even though we made many interventions at the beginning of the match, we could not immediately gain the scoring advantage. The team added more after the first quarter. There were quick breaks, easy points and a more organized attack, and these ultimately brought results. We got the win we needed.
Overall, I am happy with the results of this dough. We maintained our place among the top four teams in the Super League, so I evaluate the performance positively. Playing without one of the starting five players is a serious challenge for our team. I thank the men for their character; “After the defeat in the first match, no one gave up and the next day we played a high-quality game, first of all, as a single team.”
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5 matches were played in the eighth round of the regular season in the Super League. Four more matches were played in Nikolaev and one in Rivne.
Six clubs played their matches during the weekend and the symbolic team was determined according to the results:
Mikhail Gorobchenko (Dnepr) – 8.5 points, 7.5 assists, 3.0 steals, 3.0 rebounds (PE 18.5)
Alexander Peacock (Krivbass) – 15.5 points, 7.0 rebounds, 4.5 assists (PE 24.0)
Vladimir Konev (Dnepr) – 15.5 points, 6.5 rebounds, 2.5 assists (PE 20.0)
Tarig Eisa (Zaporozhye) – 19.0 points, 8.0 rebounds, 3.0 assists, 2.5 steals (PE 15.5)
Yaroslav Karpyuk (Kyiv-Sepet) – 15 points, 13 rebounds, 2 steals (PE 23)
Dnepr forward was chosen as the MVP of the tour Vladimir Konev. The leader of the Ukrainian champions helped his team to two confident victories in Nikolaev. He recorded 13 points, 3 rebounds and 2 assists (RE 16) in the match against Niko-Basket (96:56) and 18 points, 11 rebounds, 2 assists (RE 24) against Kryvbas (77:58). In these two games, Vladimir showed high efficiency in attack, converting 7 out of 11 three-point shots and 4 out of 6 two-point shots.
Source: Sport UA
Ralph Bean is a writer for Sportish. Ralph has written about sports news for the last two years, and is currently an author on the site. He enjoys writing about sports, and hopes to cover more stories in the future.
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