FIBA 2019 World Championship Final, Argentina - Spain

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The last day of the long-awaited World Cup is upon us, and Argentina and Spain will face off in the deciding match for the title of the best national team in the world. These two teams have made it to the finals without a single stumble, and one of them will suffer its first and undoubtedly most painful defeat of the championship. Below we will look at the strengths of both teams, the key factors that will determine the victory of one or the other team and give our predictions for the final match.

Argentina - Spain (2,55 kof. - 1,50 kof., betsafe)

This year's World Basketball Championship continues to surprise with surprising results. None of the Top 3 teams predicted by the experts before the championship (USA, Serbia, Greece) even made it to the semi-finals, and the final will feature the biggest surprise of the tournament, Argentina, and Spain, which continues to show its winning mentality. With odds of 101 to win the World Cup, the Argentinians are defying predictions and are in fact showing solid play on both sides of the pitch. The Spanish team's presence at this stage is not a big question mark - although on paper it is a little weaker than in previous years, the core of the team remains the same and the aura of a winner is still there.

Argentina's key to victory

Although the teams have already played 7 matches in this championship, in almost all of them the Argentine team has been led by the duo of Campazzo and Scola and the excellent interplay between them. In the upcoming last match of the championship, the key to victory for the Argentine team should be:

  1. Good defence - The Argentinians showed a great defensive performance against France, allowing only 66 points to one of the most talented teams in the tournament. Campazzo used his speed well after switching defenders, knocking out the opposing defenders, the team defence was excellent and the communication between the teams was really top-notch. Demonstrating something like this in the final is certainly a success.
  2. Tandem of L. Scola and F. Campazzo - One of the hardest duos to stop in the championship, it remains a question mark for opponents and basketball fans alike. Scola continues to find new ways to impress with every game and sometimes makes you wonder how it is possible for a 39-year-old player who has been on the court for almost 30 minutes to maintain such a high level of play and pace for the whole game. Meanwhile, Campazzo is one of the most unpredictable and creative players in the championship, so it is difficult to predict him, and once he feels the rhythm, it can be extremely difficult to stop.

Spain's key to victory

The Spanish squad, like Argentina's, is well-balanced and, on a good day, any player can take the lead and push the team forward. In any case, given the importance of the match, it is likely that the Spanish team will have the most important moments to win:

  1. Making the most of experience - The Spanish team is much more experienced, especially on the international front, where they have dominated for years. From World and European championships to medals at the Olympics, the Spanish have won practically everything. The Spanish team has so many experienced players that we can certainly expect a solid, high-level match from them, because the importance of this match is enormous.
  2. Individual excellence - Although Argentina has good, talented players, it has to be admitted that the Spanish team is much more talented and has higher level players. The main players of both teams (at Campazzo and Scola - Rubio and Gasol) are quite similar and if there is not a big difference between them, if you take the other 10 players, the difference is very strong. We can talk about S. Lull, who is one of the best Europeans in Clutch situations, as well as Willy and Juancho Hernangomez, who look good in the NBA. The Argentinian line-up is smoother, but the Spanish line-up is definitely more talented, and in a war of nerves like the one we are likely to have today, this is a very important factor.

Forecast

According to the lines (2.55 - 1.5), we can see that the Spanish team is considered to be the favourite to win the championship, and it would be very difficult to disagree with that. Yes, the Argentinians won against Serbia and France, but anyone who saw both games will probably agree that both the Serbs and the French really looked very poor and were not in the best sporting shape. It is difficult to say what happened. Of course, the good play of the Argentinians contributed to it, but the game against France in particular showed that it was not so much the Argentinians who were doing the magic, but the French who were simply not playing.

The Spanish team should be on an emotional high after playing 2 overtimes against Australia, when they managed to escape 2 times and eventually win. Spain's key players are much more experienced and individually stronger, so it is likely that the experience factor will come into play in the most important game of the championship and the Europeans will be the champions. The odds of 1.9 for -4 are very attractive considering all the circumstances of this match.