Turkey wins Spain and the champion of Europe Slovenia loses the prospect of a PK place – Basketball – Sportacentrs.com

Turkey's favorites have yet to play any qualifying match for the PK, while Spain has suffered only one defeat so far in the race for unfortunate concessions at the FIFA World Cup ™. # 39; Ukraine. After the defeat of Turkey, the Spaniards are forced to withdraw from the group, but Turkey has significantly improved their chances of qualifying for the World Cup.

The first half of the match was played in an equivalent match. Some small breakthroughs were made for the Turks, with a better game at the bottom of the basket, but at half-time, they had to leave with a slight upset at 36:34.

In the third quarter, the Turks and Semih Erden are further away while Dario Brizuela tries to keep the Spaniards in the game. The Turkish team resumed the last quarter at 56:48, but only got one point in four minutes. The Spaniards also struggled to score points, but managed to get closer to 61:62 three minutes before the end. The Turks, however, immediately managed to react with the Sinan Giller's, which was completely free.

A minute ago, the Turks did not play well in the corner and in the ensuing attack against the Spaniards, Haime Fernandess scored 67:67. But Turkey came back 33 seconds before the end of the Erden hook from the back of the basket, while the last Spanish attack was slow, with no clear target, and resulted in an inaccurate shot of the Cinema Colon in their hands. Turkey then threw both braces and won 71:67.

Erdah scored 16 points and 14 rebounds in Turkey, while Balbaay and Birzens added 12 points. In Spain, Brizuela scored 18 points. The Spanish team only made three static errors in this match (eight for Turkey) but lost 12 points less than its opponents.

In the second group I, Slovenia suffered another setback, with a loss of 54:82 for Ukraine. The Slovenian team scored just 16 points in the first 20 minutes of the first quarter, and it fell into the category of bad guys for whom there was no hope of putting off. In Ukraine, six players scored ten points and more, and the Ukrainians could afford to play the reservists in the second half of the match, while Gregor Horvats was the best with Slovenia with 13 points.

As a champion of Europe, Slovenia has lost the last theoretical hopes to go to the world championship. In terms of number of victories, Slovenians can still reach Latvia if today Latvians lose Montenegro, but in this case, Latvia, Ukraine and Montenegro will have five wins and two more matches . It is therefore clear that Slovenia will not be among the top three in the group.

The next match of Slovenia is aimed directly at Latvia.

Group I