after five defeats & quot; blue-yellow & quot; In the last match of the qualification cycle, they confidently beat Portugal.
Ukrainian team in basketball won the Portugal in the duel of the final, sixth round of qualification for the championship Europe 2025. The meeting in the Portuguese Matosinyush ended with the score 60:88 .
For both teams, this match no longer had any tournament significance. Earlier, Ukrainians suffered five defeats and early lost the chances of reaching the continental championship, while the Portuguese guaranteed their participation in the final part of the European Championship.
The first quarter of Ukraine won with a account of 24:17, and then developed their success in the second (17:15), which allowed her to leave for a big break with an advantage of 9 points over rival.
In the third period, the Ukrainians continued to break away from the owners of the site (30:18) and before the last 10-minute already had a handicap of 21 points. The final quarter was also taken by our team (17:10), having completed the game with a confident victory with a difference of 28 points.
It is interesting that Maxim Klitschko, the 19-year-old son of the legendary boxer and mayor, debuted in this match in this match. Kyiv Vitaly Klitschko. Previously, he played for the youth team of Ukraine.
Full video of the match of Portugal – Ukraine
for the Ukrainian national team was the second match after return Ainars Bagatskiy The coach, February 21, our team was defeated by from Slovenia, having lost the chances of reaching the Eurobasette-2025. The Latvian specialist, who previously headed the “blue-yellow” from May 2019 to March 2023, replaced Vitaly Stepanovsky at the end of December 2024.
with the Eurobasette-2025 from the group where the Ukrainian team performed, Three out of four teams came out: Slovenia, Israel and Portugal.
“blue-yellow” with one The victory in six matches took the last place in their group and for the first time in 16 years they will miss the continental championship. The last time our team did not participate in the final stage of the European Championship back in 2009, after which it successfully overcame the qualifications five times in a row.
