Ukrainians lost the chance to go to Eurobasket-2025
Evgeny Murzin, photo fbu.ua
head coach of the Ukrainian women's team on basketball Evgeny Murzin commented on the defeat from Portugal (57:60) in The fifth round of qualification for Eurobasket-2025 .
« we prepared and tuned in the match against Portugal, this time we played against them with a full composition. Compared to the first game, about 40% of the composition, Captain Alina Yagupova »,
joined the first game.« they really wanted to take revenge for defeat in Riga and really played well in the first half. They did not allow them to use the main advantage – three -point throws. But after a large break, we ourselves went astray on long attacks, although we scored most of the points from under the ring. Therefore, it was usually necessary to attack the passages more, but we continued to throw a lot from afar ».
« failed the beginning of the fourth quarter, began to perform too much individual actions in the attack. At the end they tried to catch up a bit, but it was already a lost match ».
« won the selection and prepared for the pressure of the Portuguese, but, unfortunately, 23 losses were a very unpleasant indicator. This is a consequence of nervousness and incorrect decisions. Several times in the match, they did not control the attack time, not having time to reach the ring ».
« In the final game with North Macedonia, we will play to win, the only thing I can say for sure, we will expand the composition, let everyone play. Of course, young people will receive more chances. In Northern Macedonia, about three players are typing a lion's fraction of points – this is Angelica Mitrashinovich, Merritt Hamp and Alexander Stoyanovskaya ».
« when we played with them on the exit, Alina Yagupova covered Stoyanovskaya, pressure throughout the site Mitrashinovich — She is the only playing. They tried to load their leader to the maximum and, I think, the plan will remain about the same for tomorrow's match. Much will depend on how we play against these three players ”».
Recall that during the first window in November 2023, the blue-yellow at first at the exit was disgusting Serbia (40:82) , and then lost to Portugal (63:78). Ukrainians won their first victory only in the third round in the game with North Macedonia (98:49) in November 2024, and then re -yielded Serbia (53:79).
The women's team of Ukraine lost mathematical chances Eurobasette-2025. The team of Evgeny Murzin will complete the selection on February 9 in Riga – in a nominally “home” game, she will accept Northern Macedonia.
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