The UAE national football team loses to Libya in the Arab Basketball Championship

The UAE national basketball team suffered a surprising loss against its Libyan counterpart, which came by 19 points, with a result of "93-74", in a match that brought them together today, Thursday, for the first group, at the end of the third round of the preliminary round in the Arab Teams Championship for men, which is currently being held in its 24th edition. On the Al Nasr Club Hall in Dubai, and extends until February 16, with the participation of seven Arab teams.

And the tour began, and for the account of the same group, the Tunisian team continued its strong performance by snatching its second victory in a row, which came at the expense of the Jordanian team, with a score of "64-56".

The Tunisian team led the first group teams with four points, one point ahead of the UAE and Libyan teams, while the Jordanian team maintained its fourth and last position with two points.

The start of the match came close between the two teams, after the first quarter ended in a draw "18-18", before the Libyan team succeeded in ending the first half with a difference of five points, and with a result of "40-35", its players gained the advantage in the second quarter by "22-17". .

 With the start of the second half, the UAE team regained its balance and the Al-Abyad players managed to reduce the difference to three points at the end of the third quarter by taking the advantage with the result of this quarter "26-24", to enter the match in its last ten minutes, through which the Libyan team knew how to extend its rhythm on the course of the course. Playing and winning the match by taking the advantage with the fourth quarter score "29-13".

Tomorrow, the curtain falls on the group league, with the establishment of three matches, the first of which begins at four in the afternoon with the meeting of the Libyan and Jordanian teams for the first group, and follows in the sixth in a meeting that decided the top of the second group, which brings together the Lebanese and Algerian teams, and the curtain falls at the eighth with the meeting of the UAE team in front of its Tunisian brother .

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