Brazil beats Ivory Coast and advances in the World Cup – 08/30/2023 – Sport

The Brazilian team had a hard time, but confirmed its favoritism, on the Indonesian afternoon of Wednesday (30), and defeated Ivory Coast by 89 to 77. The result at the Indonesia Arena, in Jakarta, took the team led by Gustavo de Conti to the second round of the Basketball World Cup.

The green-and-yellow formation is now in a new bracket, Group L, alongside Spain, Canada and Latvia. The results of the first phase are carried over to the next, so the team has two wins and one loss.

As it already played with Spain, Brazil will only face Canada and Latvia. Latvia also has two wins and one loss. Spaniards and Canadians are undefeated. The top two teams in the group will advance to the quarterfinals.

Points difference is a tie-breaker, which is why the 18-point loss to Spain was sorely missed. On the occasion, the Brazilian formation committed many wastes of the ball and was bad in the three-point shots.

Thus, the duel with Côte d’Ivoire –which, like Brazil, beat Iran– became a direct confrontation for the classification. And the South American formation found problems to impose its clear technical superiority.

It was a balanced duel, which reached the break with a green-yellow lead of 50 to 46. Gustavo de Conti’s team seemed to have geared up in the third quarter, opening 15 points with good work in defense. Then, Yago felt a problem in his right knee, and the difference dropped to five at the end of the period.

The point guard returned for the last ten minutes, which did not solve the problems, with excessive fouls and ball wastage. Just over four minutes from the end, the score showed 74 to 71 for Brazil, which only managed to gain some breath at the very end.

The big name of the match was Yago, with 24 points and 12 assists. Pivot forward Tim Soares, before being eliminated for fouls, contributed 15 points and six rebounds. On the Ivory Coast side, center Cédric Bah had 13 points and 13 rebounds.

Brazil will enter the Indonesia Arena again on Friday (1st), against Canada, at 10:30 am (Brasília time). In the event of a green-yellow defeat and a victory for Spain over Latvia on the same day, De Conti’s team will be eliminated even before the clash with Latvia.