Under the leadership of Bagatska, Ukraine qualifies for the EC final

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On Monday, the Ukrainian national team, led by the former head coach of the Latvian men’s basketball team Ainars Bagatskas, won a ticket to the final tournament of the 2022 European Championship, for which Slovenia, Israel and Spain also qualified.

Ukraine defeated Austria in the subgroup F duel in Ljubljana with a score of 70:67 (16:14, 13:16, 21:15, 20:22).

Oleksandr Mišula was the most productive in the Ukrainian team with 20 points, but Denis Lukashov scored 14 points. Benedict Gitl scored 16 points for the Austrians, but Bogici Vujoshevic scored 15 points.

Ukraine’s ability to win, despite 27 mistakes.

After the loss of Austria, it became clear that the ticket to the final tournament was won not only by Ukraine, but also by the 2017 European champion Slovenia.

Hungary also had to play in Ljubljana, but the national team experienced an outbreak of Covid-19.

The Hungarians have won in the last two games, Slovenia has won three games in four matches, Ukraine has won two games in four battles, and Austria has lost in all four games.

Israel defeated Poland in the Valencia “bubble” in Group A in the fight 78:72 (16:18, 25:14, 21:20, 16:20) and won the ticket to the final tournament.

The winners were 14 points by Jake Cohen and 12 points by Gal Meckel. The Poles were the most productive with 23 points at the expense of Mateusz Poņitka, while 15 points were at the expense of Mihala Sokolovskis.

Later in this group, Spain defeated Romania with a score of 94:41 (27:12, 18: 9, 13:12, 36: 8), with the hosts also qualifying for the final tournament.

In the Spanish national team, Dario Brussels stood out with 17 points, 12 points and nine rebounds were for Tyson Peres, but 11 + 11 were scored by Honatan Barreiro in these statistics. Luke Tohetan scored 13 points for the Romanians.

In subgroup A, the leader with four wins in four games is Israel, two wins are for Spain and Poland, and four failures are for Romania.

In Tallinn, meanwhile, Italy prevailed over Russia in subgroup B with 70:66 (15:15, 21:16, 14:13, 20:22).

Amadeo Tesitori played the best game of his career in the Italian national team, scoring 27 points and winning nine rebounds. Andrejs Voroncevičs scored for the Russians with 11 points and 11 balls under the baskets.

An Estonian-Northern Macedonian duel was due to take place in Tallinn on Monday, but a Covid-19 outbreak was detected in the Balkan national team.

In the sub-group, the leader with three wins in three games is Italy, two successes in four matches are in Russia, one in three games is against Estonia, but Northern Macedonia has lost in both past dues.

In subgroup E, Georgia defeated Switzerland in the Finnish city of Espoo with 91:84 (27:24, 19:15, 19:15, 26:30).

Georgia scored 24 points by Ted McPheiden, but 17 points, six rebounds and five assists were won by Tornik Shengelia. Switzerland scored 19 points and seven balls under the baskets were won by Marko Mladžans, but Roberto Kovačs had 17 points.

Later, with a score of 75:66 (17: 7, 18:18, 20:20, 20:21), Serbia prevailed over Finland.

Danilo Andžušičs scored 19 points and Aleksa Avramovičs added 17 points. The Finns scored 15 points for Edon Manchhuni, but nine points and three blocked shots went to “VEF Rīga” basketball player Aleksandrs Madsen.

In Group E, Georgia takes first place with four wins in four games, Serbia with two wins and Finland and Switzerland with one success each.

There are 32 teams participating in the qualifying tournament, divided into eight groups. Out of the four groups in which the countries organizing the final tournament (Czech Republic, Georgia, Italy and Germany) play, the top two teams qualify for the final tournament, and from the other four – three each. The games take place in three national team windows – in February and November 2020, as well as in February 2021.

The final tournament of the European Championship was moved from next year to 2022. The final tournament will take place next year from September 1 to 18 in four countries – the Czech Republic (Prague), Georgia (Tbilisi), Italy (Milan) and Germany (group tournament in Cologne, playoffs in Berlin). 24 teams will take part in it.

In addition to the hosts of the tournament, Croatia, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Israel, Slovenia, Ukraine and Spain have also provided travel tickets.

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