"Elazig Il Ozel Idare" (Turkey) - BC "Prometey" (Ukraine). October 27. 18:30. EuroCup Women. Group stage. Group "B". 3rd tour. Elazig (Turkey). SC "Elazig Il Ozel Idare”. Broadcast - Youtube.com/FIBA
The women's team "Prometey" approached the match of the third round of the group stage of EuroCup Women in the status of the sole leader of group "B". Only our team is undefeated after two rounds, and among all the teams in this season's popular tournament, which currently have a 100% result, only the famous French "Villeneuve d'Ascq" and the Spanish "Valencia" have a better goal difference than Victoria Bolshakova's team.
Our team has to play the second away match in a row. This time the Turkish club "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" will be their rival which represents the city of Elazig in eastern Turkey with a population of about 570 thousand inhabitants in 2009.
The highest achievement of "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" is the victory in the Cup of the Turkish Federation in 2019, and the current draw of EwroCup Women "Prometey’s" rival is in the status of a quarterfinalist of last year's tournament. Then the team won three victories in the group stage, and in the playoffs with a score of 67:77 lost to the Hungarian "Atomerom Szekszard", a well-known for "Prometey" team from a joint performance in the group round.
At the moment, "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" will not be able to pass the first stage of the tournament without defeats. After winning at home against Uni Gyor (74:67) in the first round, the Turkish team lost away to Romanian Sepsi a week ago with a score of 47:62 and let them take second place.
The match with Prometey will be only the fifth official match for Elazig Il Ozel Idare this season. In the EwroCup Women qualification round, the team of local coach Aziz Akkaia beat Greek PAOK (80:76), and in the Turkish championship they started with a sensitive defeat by Hatayaspor (61:103), another one out of the six representatives of Turkey in EuroCup Women. So it is quite possible to assume that "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" of the 2021/2022 season is now only at the beginning of its formation.
Today's "Elazig Il Ozel Idare" is a multinational team. Guards Colby Morgan and Lindsay Pulliam represent the United States, 26-year-old forward Albina Razheva is from Russia, her teammate Anna Brych is from Belarus, 33-year-old Omu Toure, who can play in positions 4 and 5, has passports from two countries at once - Senegal and France. Among the local players stands out Melike Yaltsinkaya, who takes an average of 10 rebounds on the boards in the matches of this season.
In general, our team is really able to defeat this opponent, although they can cause a lot of problems. We wish “Prometey” success in tomorrow's match, and it will be possible to watch its course starting from 18:30 on the FIBA YouTube channel.
