Ukraine - Spain. Qualifying match for the 2023 World Cup. The 1st group round. 6th tour. July 7. 7 pm. Riga.

Tomorrow, on July 7, the Ukrainian National team plays the final match of the 1st group round of the qualifying cycle for the 2023 World Cup. The opponent is the Spanish National team, which is rightfully considered one of the giants not only European, but also world basketball.

Spaniards did not confirm their status a few days ago, being defeated in overtime by the Georgian national team - 76:82. This result created some intrigue in our group. If Sergio Scariolo's team wins tomorrow, the final placing of the teams in the tournament is quite clear (Spain with five wins is first, Georgia with four - second, Ukraine with three - third), but in case of success of Ukrainians there are two options. If this happens, the personal relationships of the teams will come into force. According to this indicator, Georgia is clearly third with -20, and our team (-6 as for today) has even a chance to jump to the first place if it wins with a difference of +17. There is no point in estimating the probability of this now, just let it happen!

In the first tour, the rivals met on February 24 in Cordoba, Spain. It was on this day in the morning when Russia's large-scale invasion to our country began. It is hardly worth talking about the psychological state of our guys, which affected the entire course of the match. Only in the last quarter, Ukrainians were able to get closer to the opponent, but still conceded with a significant difference in the score - 74:88. Among the Prometey players, Viacheslav Petrov was the most effective - 8 points, 5 points were taken in his assets by Denys Lukashov, who represented our club at that time, Illia Sydorov and Oleksandr Lypovyy scored 3 points each. Ivan Tkachenko, at that time a player of Cherkaski Mavpy, added 1 point to the team's treasury.

In Riga, most of the participants of that match, both from our side and from the Spanish side, will step out to the court. Many basketball players familiar to Prometey fans will play for the Spanish national team. 4 players at once represent "Unikaha". These are Jonathan Barreiro, Dario Brizuela, Alberto Diaz, Jaime Fernadez. Fran Guerra is a player of "Lenovo Tenerife". There is no doubt that all of them will try to bring the maximum benefit to their team, but our fans, even in these difficult for the entire country times, wish success to their main basketball team. We believe that our guys will get the third consecutive victory in the July cycle!