Iceland vs. Netherlands Prediction, Tips & Odds – Jul. 1, 2022 22:00 CET

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With a win against the Netherlands, Iceland would make a big step towards qualifying for the World Cup, but they will play without the best player in the history of their national team.

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Iceland

In the last ten years, sport in Iceland has experienced a real boom. The national football team participated in the World Cup back in 2018, while two years earlier they played in the European Championship as well. It has been known how good they are in handball, but now they have also appeared on the basketball map. In 2015 and 2017, they qualified for Eurobasket, but both times they lost all five games in the group stage. Iceland basketball national team has never played in the World Cup in their history, but if they beat Netherlands in this game, they will make a giant step before the start of the next qualifying round. The results against Russia have been erased, leaving Iceland at a 2-1 score. They achieved a win against Italy on their floor, and they defeated the Netherlands on road, so if they transferred three wins to the next phase, the job would be much easier. Iceland will have huge support from the stands in this match, especially when they know how important this clash is.

Really bad news for Martin Hermannsson who suffered a torn ACL in his left knee during last night’s game against Baskonia!

Speedy recovery @hermannsson15 🙏🏼 pic.twitter.com/QCa9uK8QA6

— vasiliki_karamouza (@karamouza_vas) May 31, 2022

Netherlands

Netherlands was part of European basketball history in its beginnings. They regularly participated in the European Championships, and in 1983 they achieved a record fourth place. Then, there was a big regression and in the period between 1989 and 2015 they didn’t qualify for any big competition. That changed in 2015 when they played on Eurobasket for the first time in 26 years. In the last few years, they made few solid results in qualifying, but they didn’t play well in continuity. Three years ago, Maurizio Buscaglia was appointed as head coach of Netherlands national team and he managed to take this team to the next Eurobasket that will be played in September, and the group in which this team is located guarantees a chance to achieve one or two wins. Before Eurobasket, they will face two key games in the World Cup qualifiers. They will play first against Iceland at road, and then they will host Italy, and in order to keep some chances for a historic result, they will have to record at least one win in the next two games.

Charlon Kloof went off against Turkeyy 😤🔥 (via @EuroBasket) pic.twitter.com/HVWYCWZRvX

— Highlights of Suriname (@Highlightsofsu) February 23, 2020

H2H

Only once these two teams play against each other in last ten years and that happened in November last year as part of these same qualifiers. Then, Iceland won 79:77 in Almere.

Injuries

The best player in the history of Iceland basketball Martin Hermannsson won’t play in this game because he suffered a torn ACL last month. All players are available for the Netherlands.