This promises to be one of the games of the tournament so far with both teams in great form and evenly matched.
Argentina had an unbeaten campaign in the group stages but they found it tough to beat Russia when they beat them 69-61 in the lowest scoring game of the competition. They then went on to win their two second group stage matches against Venezuela and Poland and will look to compete with Serbia
The Serbian team however has been one of the most dominant teams in the competition winning all their games. Having won their first two group games very easily they even won against Italy which was a tough team by 92-77. They thrashed Puerto Rico in the first encounter of the Second group stage by 90-47. They lost to Spain though in their first real test by 69-81 and need to win this game to get their confidence back
Here is a look in the game
Match Timing: September 10, @ 04:30 PM IST
Venue – Dongfeng Nissan Cultural and Sports Centre, in Dongfeng, China..
Capacity- 16,133
There are no absentees for the Argentinian team and the coach will be looking at Luis Scola and Facundo Campazzo to inspire them from the beginning and Luca Vildoza and Gabriel Deck to come from the bench and inspire them in a game they are expected to win.
Agustin Caffaro, Luca Vildoza, Luis Scola, Facundo Campazzo, Nicolas Brussino, Maximo Fjellerup, Marcos Delia, Gabriel Deck, Lucio Redivo, Patricio Garino, Tayavek Gallizzi
The Serbian team is also fully fit and available and would like to continue their winning ways with Bogdan Bogdanovic and Vasilie Micic expected to make a big impact from the starting lineup and Nemanja Bjelica expected to be impressive from the bench like they were in the game against Puerto Rico. They will need to be at their best against the Argentine team.
Stefan Bircevic, Nikola Milutinov, Vasilije Micic, Marko Guduric, Stefan Jovic, Boban Marjanovic, Nikola Jokic, Marko Simonovic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Nemanja Bjelica, Vladimir Lucic, Miroslav Raduljica
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ARG – Patricio Garino, Facundo Campazzo, Marcos Delia, Luis Scola, Nicolas Brussino.
SER – Nikola Jokic, Stefan Bircevic, Vladimir Lucic, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Stefan Jovic
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Serbia –
Nikola Jokic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 16:47
Points – 6
Assists – 1
Rebounds – 5
Bogdan Bogdanovic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 35:17
Points – 26
Assists – 6
Rebounds – 10
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Argentina –
Facundo Campazzo
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 25:16
Points – 7
Assists – 6
Rebounds – 5
Luis Scola
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 32:08
Points – 21
Assists – 3
Rebounds – 6
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The game is expected to be a close one and Serbia are expected to edge Argentina out