EuroBasket 2025 | Live: Belgium

Spain men’s national basketball team faces Belgium

in Charleroi in the second match of the qualifying stage of the tournament Eurobasket 2025 with the clear goal of achieving victory after last Thursday’s loss to Latvia (75-79) in Ricky Rubio’s return to La Familia.

Ricky Rubio reappeared ten months after his last official match and became the leader with a good record, although 11 points and 5 assists El Masnou was not enough for a team whose top scorers were Dario Brizuela and Jaime Pradilla.

New defeat from temporary leader of group C This was a wake-up call for the Spanish team, who blamed Zaragoza for the lack of filming and the absence of important people such as Santi Aldama, Sergio Llull, Willy Hernangomez, Alex Abrines, Juan Nunez and Lorenzo Brown.

They will reach ticket for the next EuroBasket 2025 two best teams in the group excluding Latvia, already classified as a host country. Presumably it will be Slovakia who finish last and say goodbye to their qualifying options, but Scariolo doesn’t want to panic; In the first round, Belgium tried to defeat the Slovaks with a score of 60–75.

Thus, the Belgian national team is the temporary leader of the group, and to top it all off, they beat Spain (73-83) in the last head-to-head match. It was September 4, 2022, at the start of that year’s EuroBasket, which Spain eventually won. Now there will be a rematch in Charleroi, and then close FIBA ​​windows until November 22.

Sergio Scariolo will be pushing for more defensive activity from his players to restore his team’s identity against one of the few sides to beat Spain in recent years. very physical block in the inside game whose ally will also be the court factor.