The first game of the second round group stage kicks off with the clash between Poland and Russia
Poland had topped in their group after they won all their three games against Venezuela, Ivory Coast and China. Apart from the second game against China, who took the game into overtime, all the wins were very comfortable
Russia were good in their first two games but found it tough against Argentina when they lost a low scoring encounter by 61-69.
Here is a look at this game.
Match Timing: September 6, @ 01:30 PM IST
Venue – Foshan International Sports and Cultural Center, in Foshan, China. Capacity- 14,700
Poland –
Poland will be looking to get their second group venture starting off well against Russia and therefore they will be playing the best possible 11. They would be thankful for being injury free. They will be relying on AJ Slaughter and Mateuz Pontika to be driving force for their team from the beginning and Olek Balcerowski and Damian Kulig from the bench to impact the game.
Poland squad for the World Cup:
Adam Hrycaniuk, Lukasz Koszarek, Damian Kulig, Aleksander Balcerowski, Aaron Cel, Karol Gruszecki, Kamil Laczynski, Michal Sokolowski, Adam Waczynski, Dominik Olejniczak, Mateusz Ponitka, A.J. Slaughter
Russia –
There are no absentees for the Russian team as well and the coach will be looking at Andrey Vorontsevic and Nikita Kurbanov to do the scoring for the otherwise low scoring team. They will also have Andrey Zubkov who might start the game or come as a substitute but will be their primary points scorer.
Russia squad for the 2019 FIBA World Cup:
Andrey Sopin, Vitaly Fridzon, Semen Antonov, Evgeny Baburin, Mikhail Kulagin, Grigory Motovilov, Andrey Vorontsevich, Nikita Kurbanov, Evgeny Valiev, Andrey Zubkov, Sergey Karasev, Vladimir Ivlev.
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POL – Mateusz Ponitka, A. J. Slaughter, Adam Waczynski, Aaron Cel, Adam Hrycaniuk
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Russia –
Andrey Vorontsevich
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 33:19
Points – 9
Assists – 0
Rebounds – 7
Nikita Kurbanov
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 29:44
Points – 13
Assists – 1
Rebounds – 4
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AJ Slaughter,
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 24:49
Points – 7
Assists – 4
Rebounds – 0
Mateusz Pontika
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 23:08
Points – 12
Assists – 0
Rebounds -4
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The game is expected to be a close one and Poland are expected to win the game.