Overview:
This promises to be one of the games of the tournament so far with both teams in great form and evenly matched.
The Spanish team has had great success in the tournament so far and has been able to win all three of its game. It would like to win this game and carry on the momentum into further stages of the competition as well. It has defeated Tunisia, Puerto Rico and Serbia in the previous games. And in the
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
Here is a look in the game
Match Timing: September 8, @ 06:00 PM IST
Venue – Wuhan Gymnasium, in Wuhan, China..
Capacity- 13,000
Spain –
Spain will be looking at their leading players to once again inspire them to a win in this game. Marc Gasol and Ricky Rubio will again be expected to start this game and Sergio Lull and Pierre Oriola will be expected to impact as substitute.
Spain squad for the World Cup:
Spain: Quino Colom, Rudy Fernandez, Pau Ribas, Ricky Rubio, Victor Claver, Marc Gasol, Willy Hernangomez Geuer, Pierre Oriola, Xavier Rabaseda, Sergio LLULL, Javier Beiran, Juancho Hernangomez
Serbia –
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
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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ESP – Gasol, Fernandez, Rubio, Juancho, Claver.
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 – 16:36
Points – 14
Assists – 1
Rebounds – 10
Bogdan Bogdanovic
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 20:15
Points – 5
Assists – 5
Rebounds – 2
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Spain –
Marc Gasol
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 27:05
Points – 2
Assists – 1
Rebounds – 4
Ricky Rubiot
His stats in the previous game were
Minutes – 25:00
Points – 15
Assists – 2
Rebounds – 2
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The game is expected to be a close one and Serbia are expected to edge Spain out