Turkey and Montenegro will be facing each other in this classification match in the FIBA world cup.
Both the teams failed to qualify for the last 16.
While Turkey seemed like likely qualifiers after pushing the United States of America team who are firm favorites to win the competition to the brink and losing to them only in Over Time. The loss in the final game against Czech Republic by 76-91 came as a shock to them and killed their hopes of qualification.
Montenegro could not win a single game in the competition in the group stage and even ended up losing to minnows New Zealand.
Here is a look at this game.
Match Timing: September 7, @ 05:00 PM IST
Venue – Dongfeng Nissan Cultural and Sports Centre, in Dongfeng, China
Capacity- 16,133
Turkey –
Turkey is expected to play a full strength squad in this game since it is a must win encounter Ersan and Mahamutoglu were superb in their encounter with USA and are expected to be influential again. Korkmaz and Wilbekin will be seen as an option from the bench. There are no injuries and suspensions.
Turkey squad for the World Cup:
Ege Arar, Yigit Arslan, Dogus Balbay, James Metecan Birsen, Berkan Durmaz, Semih Erden, Ersan Ilyasova, Furkan Korkmaz, Melih Mahmutoglu, Cedi Osman, Sertac Sanli, Bugrahan Tuncer, Berk Ugurlu, Scott Wilbekin
Montenegro –
They are also without any injuries and are expected to play the same team as it played in the last game. Petar Popovic and Derek Needham will be impacting the game from the very beginning and Kokmaz Furkan will be making an impact from the bench.
Derek Needham, Aleksa Popovic, Petar Popovic, Milko Bjelica, Bojan Dubljevic, Nikola Ivanovic, Dino Radoncic, Nikola Vucevic, Nemanja Radovic, Sead Sehovic, Suad Sehovic, Marko Todorovic
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TUR – Ersan Ilyasova, Cedi Osman, Melih Mahmutoglu, Semih Erden, Dogus Balbay
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Montenegro –
Derek Needham
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 36:20
Points – 16
Assists – 10
Rebounds – 1
Petar Popovic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 32:39
Points – 10
Assists – 2
Rebounds – 0
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Turkey –
Ersan
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 30:17
Points – 6
Assists –2
Rebounds – 4
Mahmutoglu
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 27:35
Points – 14
Assists – 0
Rebounds – 0
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The game is expected to be a close one and Turkey are expected to win the game.