Today, on November 11, Ukrainian National team plays their next of qualification for the World Cup 2023. We play on the road with the team of the Netherlands. As a reminder, “Prometey” is represented by four players – Illia Sydorov, Denys Lukashov, Ivan Tkachenko and Oleksandr Lypovyy.
The start of the match the Netherlands – Ukraine is at 20:00, broadcast id on the XSPORT TV channel.
Losses in August to Italy 89:97 and, in overtime, to Iceland 88:91 as well as July’s loss to Spaniards made chances to enter the World Cup for the second time in history more complicated for Ukraine. Let us remind, for the first time in history, Ukrainian National team qualified for the World Cup in 2013, when Mike Fratello’s team sat the highest of all times 6th place at the EuroBasket.
At the moment, four tours before the selection finishes, the team of Ainars Bagatskis is sitting in 5 place having only one victory in their assests.
The National team of the Netherlands has no wins so far and has lost even theoretical chances to enter the world championship.