Overview:
Turkey and New Zealand 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. They defeated Montenegro in the previous game by 79-74.
New Zealand won a single game against Montenegro and could not qualify to the second round but in the second round game they defeated Japan by 111-81.
Here is a look at this game.
Match Timing: September 9, @ 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
They are also without any injuries and are expected to play the same team as it played in the last game specially having won so convincingly .
New Zealand squad for the 2019 FIBA World Cup:
Tai Webster, Finn Delany, Shea Ili, Jarrod Kenny, Corey Webster, Tom Abercrombie, Rob Loe, Tohi Loe, Tohi Smith-Milner, Jordan Ngatai, Ethan Rusbatch, Alex Pledger, Isaac Fotu
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TUR – Ersan Ilyasova, Cedi Osman, Melih Mahmutoglu, Semih Erden, Dogus Balbay
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New Zealand –
Corey Webster
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 29:47
Points – 27
Assists – 6
Rebounds – 5
Issac Fotu
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 28:20
Points – 15
Assists – 9
Rebounds – 3
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Turkey –
Osman Cedi
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 34:11
Points – 19
Assists –1
Rebounds – 4
Mahmutoglu
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 28:47
Points – 17
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.