BC "Filou Oostende" (Belgium) - BC "Prometey" (Ukraine) - 87:91 (20:18, 22:25, 30:25, 15:23). February 10. Champions League. Second group round. Group "K". Postponed match of the 1st round. Oostende (Belgium). Versley Doom.
"Oostende": Randolph * (9), Booth * (18), Brimah * (13), Djordjevic * (11 + 11 assists), Gillet * (12), Jantunen (6 + 7 rebounds), Bratanovic (5), Cong (6), Van der Wüurst (4), Troisfontein (3).
BC "Prometey": Lukashov *, captain (0), Kennedy * (19 + 6 rebounds + 3 assists), Bilan * (38 + 10 rebounds), Dowe (4), Stephens * (2), Lypovyy (3) , Harrison (22 + 7 rebounds + 4 assists), Sydorov (3), Petrov (0), Evans (0).
The Belgian "Filou Oostende" and our "Prometey" approached their missed match of the first round in group "K" of the second group round of the Champions League with completely different current tournament figures. If our team started on Tuesday with a difficult victory over the Spanish "Unicaja", the liabilities of the Belgians have already suffered two defeats. However, only on this basis, the sole leader of the Belgian championship could not be considered a clear outsider of the group. The match seemed the most difficult for both teams, and as a result it turned out that way.
In the starting quarter, the opponents took turns in the lead, and at the same time mostly used various options in the attack. As for Prometey the game immediately literally flew for Miro Bilan, who confidently dealt with rivals in opponent’s "paint" - 8 points in the first 10 minutes. The hosts very successfully threw from the perimeter - three hits out of four (two accurate throws - in the assets of Phil Booth). This helped them a lot to win the quarter in the end, even though the champions of Ukraine carried out a much larger number of attacks, however, all their five attempts from afar were not accurate.
Opponents successfully used their trump cards in the future. The Belgians also hit three times from the arc in the second quarter, and the percentage of their long throws in the whole match reached 50 (10 successful attempts out of 20). However, this moment could not overshadow the fantastic game of Miro Bilan! No one of the "big" Oostende players could not restrain the Croatian center of our team: Amida Brimah, Pierre-Anthony Gillet, Haris Bratanovic. 38 points and 10 rebounds by Miro made a crazy efficiency rating - 46 points, and the individual record for the effectiveness of "Prometey" in the European Cups now belongs to him!
The fight was tense for all 40 minutes. None of the teams managed to achieve their advantage in the meeting of 10 points. Prometey was one point less than twice. For the first time in the course of the third quarter, "Oostende" managed not only to eliminate their "-9" gap, but also go to the last break with the handicap "+4". But the second "+9"for Prometey, which Illia Sydorov and D'Angelo Harrison set by hits from the arc and from under the backboard after their own selection, respectively, determined the winning outcome for the champion of Ukraine! It happened two minutes before the final whistle and this playing time was only enough for "Oostende" to reduce the gap to two points, but no more. The end in the match was set by a throw from the opponent’s "paint" by Chris Dowe - 91:87 in favor of "Prometey", who this week won another battle of tempers!
Our team, like the Romanian "Cluj", has a 100% result in two matches. A face-to-face confrontation between the leaders of Group K will take place on March 3 in Kyiv.
