Shock for Latvians: Bulgaria has eroded our neighbors’ hopes of entering the European Championships

02/21/2021 Lithuania



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The 2022 European Championships will be held in four countries: Italy, Germany, the Czech Republic and Georgia. A total of 24 teams will participate.

In addition to the host countries, Russia, Serbia, Finland, Poland, Slovenia, Ukraine, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Israel, Hungary, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, Bulgaria, Great Britain and France have already won entries. to the European Championship. National team.

Only two places were left vacant in the European Championship. The Lithuanian national team, who will play in the decisive match with Denmark on Monday, have yet to get a ticket. For the remainder of the ticket in Pool B, teams from Estonia and North Macedonia are grappling.

The Latvian team crashed on Saturday. He had a 13-point lead in the third half at 55:42, but couldn’t save it.

Less than 2 minutes left to play. R. Sttelmaher’s students led 65:63, but the last point was helped by Bulgarian legionnaire Dee Bost, who hit a triple. Neither team could score points for the rest of the time.

The final quarter turned fateful, during which the hosts managed to score just 6 points, and the boisterous Bulgarians went ahead and snatched the victory.

The Latvians won the fight on rebounding 43:37, but they didn’t use their most dangerous weapon, which they have always been famous for: accurate long shots. Our neighbors hit only 5 of the 23 triples taken.

Latvia: Janis Timma 14, Marekas Mejeris and Aigaras Škele after 11, Rolandas Freimanis 9, Rihards Lomazas 6, Dairis Bertanis and Martin Meieris after 4, Ojaras Šilinis 2.

Bulgaria: Dee Bostas 18, Pavlin Ivanov 15, Dimitar Dimitrov 12, Chavdar Kostov 11.

In the first duel, the Bulgarians defeated the Latvians after two overtime 110: 104. It was the ratio of points between the duel with Bulgaria that determined that the last Group H game with Greece on Monday was of no consequence and that the pupils of R. Štelmaher will stay in last place.

The Latvian team did not enter the European championship for the last time in 1999. At the 2017 Old Continent Championship, they ranked fifth in history.

Bulgaria last played in the European Championship 10 years ago, when Lithuania hosted the Eurobasket tournament. The Bulgarians then came in 13th place.

In the next Group H match on Saturday, Greece 69:84 landed for Bosnia and Herzegovina. Emiras Sulejmanovičius scored 23 points and 13 balls for the winners. Vassilis Kavvadas, who scored 16 points, stood out for the Greek team.

The ticket to the European Championship on Saturday was secured by the Dutch team, which eliminated the 13-point deficit, beat Croatia 65:57 and at the same time opened the door of the tournament for the Turkish team.

Croatia, the Netherlands and Turkey will move from Group D to Eurobasket 2022.

For the Netherlands, Yannick Franke scored 15 points, 11 were added by Keye an der Vuurst de Vries and 10 were added by Charlon Kloof. Zeljko Šakičius, who scored 17 points, scored for the Croatian national team, followed by Filip Kruslin and Miro Bilan.

The Turkish team defeated the Swedish basketball players 88:80, and Alperen Sengun, 18, was unstoppable among the winners, scoring 24 points and bouncing 12 balls.

He was also more productive than Jonas Jerebko (21 points, 6/8 triples), who wore the shirt of the Swedish national team.

Turkish Euroleague Shane Larkin in 34 minutes. he scored 9 points, had 7 assists and made 6 errors.

In Group G, Great Britain (3-2) claimed victory in the 83:81 final shooting match against Germany (1-4). There are 5 seconds left to play, the scoreboard was 81:81, with Luke Nelson making an impressive throw-in towards the basket.

Gabriel Olaseni scored 20 points, Luke Nelson 17, Myles Hesson and Ovie Soko 12 each.

Mike Zirbes scored 12 points for the German team, Andreas Seiferth 12 and Kenneth Ogbe 11.

The last place, Germany, will participate in the Eurobasket 2022 tournament as host.

There were dramatic matches in other matches, where Montenegro, seeking to avoid defeat and elimination, led almost every match, but in the end the Frenchman, who was on his heels, managed to break the course of the match in his beneficial direction.

The French team, led by Thomas Heurtel, who was recently expelled from Barcelona, ​​finally triumphed by winning the thriller 73:71.

With this victory, Vincent Collet’s pupils secured a place in the European Championships and at the same time opened the door to Eurobasket 2022 for Great Britain. Montenegrins only have to regret the opportunity that has escaped them.

The hero of the match became Th. Heurtelis. You have 13 seconds to play. He hit both free throws and put the French forward 73:70. 2 seconds to play Marko Simonovičius stood on the free throw line, scored a free throw and missed another, hoping his teammates would rebound and tie the score. However, the ball was first caught by Th. Heurtelis sent the opponents into despair.

The winners Th. Heurtel scored 16 points, Alexandre Chassang 11, Amatha M’Baye 10. Petar Popovic and Simonovic stood out in the Montenegrin team, with 17 and 16 points respectively.

In the Group F match on Saturday, Ukraine defeated Slovenia 70:65. Jerome Randle scored 24 points for the winners, Sergei Pavlov the tenth. Only Luka Rupnik scored 18 points for the Slovenian national team.

In group F, all the national teams that have won the right to play in the European Championship are clear: Slovenia, Ukraine and Hungary.

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