Lokomotiv-Kuban still beat Zenit

Lokomotiv-Kuban still beat Zenit



Basketball players of Lokomotiv-Kuban made a breakthrough, handball players proudly finished their performance in the Cup of Russia, SKIF and Dynamo failed, and rugby players of Kuban frolicked in the snow. This is a brief summary of the sports week, and the details are in the MK review below.

According to your script

It's done! Basketball players of Lokomotiv-Kuban were able to beat Zenit. Twice in the season, Krasnodar came close to this, but the last steps they unfortunately did not succeed. In a nutshell, the essence is that the "red-greens" in the final quarters managed to win back gigantic gaps and got a chance for sensational success... But everything fell apart.

The third match between these rivals took place at the start of the second stage of the VTB United League. Krasnodar three weeks later again went to St. Petersburg. At the same time, having made personnel changes, the Red-Greens strengthened the American Okaro White and parted ways with the American Joshia Gray and the Russian Sergey Dolinin.

Finally, it was Loko who kept the game under his control. Therefore, it was not necessary to recoup in a hurry. As a rule, the owners were in the role of catching up. Loko's leader Jaylen Burford did an excellent job, which he failed to do in the previous St. Petersburg match. The American scored 22 points. In the last attack, he threw the ball back to Vladislav Yemchenko. The Russian had a difficult position, but Yemchenko was able to convert the middle throw. In the remaining five seconds, the best scorer of Zenit in this match, Trey Tompinks (23 points), hit the hoop from a distance. Loko triumphs — 92:90 (30:24, 23:23, 16:21, 23:22).

The head coach of Lokomotiv-Kuban Alexander Sekulich praised his wards:

“It was a great match, great atmosphere. We tried to play team basketball even when Zenit tried to return to the game. Thanks to Yemchenko's last shot, but other than that, we haven't lost consistency in our game. We knew that Zenit was a great team, but our team spirit and team efforts were stronger.

This is Loko's application for further achievements. Very interesting games are expected in the second stage. The closest of them is on February 2 against UNICS Kazan.

Orphaned Cup

Krasnodar "Kuban" completed its most intense January: in the first month of the year, the "yellow-greens" played seven matches. On the twenty-fifth of January Krasnodar played the final meeting of the first stage of the Russian Championship in Moscow. The opponent was, frankly, simple. Luch is one of the weakest teams in the tournament.

"Kuban" played after a fundamental victory over the Zvenigorod "Zvezda". The state of the team could be twofold: you can be on the rise, or you can give yourself some slack. The second scenario, fortunately, did not happen. True to themselves Krasnodar scored almost forty goals, as often happened against outsiders. The game was decided in the first half. And the team spent the second half in a more energy-saving mode. As the head coach Denis Saifulin said, the team kept in mind the upcoming cup match against CSKA. Victory - 39 : 27.

Kuban took sixth place and will continue to fight in the second stage in the top seven.

The lot in the quarterfinals of the Cup of Russia fell as unfavorable as possible. CSKA is the current cup holder, which sounds intimidating, but pales before the second circumstance. Even more frightening was the current state of affairs, for which CSKA simply knows no mercy. Twenty-four matches in the championship - twenty-four wins. And both games in the championship Muscovites against the "Kuban" won confidently.

Here, the Krasnodar team showed that it was not for nothing that they had a successful January. They passed the exam at least satisfactorily at the end of the month, even though in fact Kuban was in the lead only once - at the very beginning - 1: 0. But the team fought until the last minutes, not letting the rivals out of sight.

Both teams made 60% of their shots. "Kuban" sinned more with losses: they accumulated as many as fourteen, the hostesses only six times gave possession to the opponent after mistakes. Consequently, army handball players threw more often. But the stumbling block for the housewives was the goalkeeper Irina Mikhailyuta, who successfully replaced Elena Nikolaeva. It was Mikhailuta who became the best player in Kuban.

The hosts of the site did not give up in the end - their back line played reliably. At CSKA, Elena Mikhailichenko became the best: she scored eight goals. Antonina Skorobogatchenko scored seven more times. Eight goals from the "Kuban" side of Anastasia Shavman.

As a result, 30 : 26 in favor of the favorite.

- Both at the beginning of the first half, and at the beginning of the second, we had a number of mistakes that significantly affected the outcome of the match, - said Denis Saifulin, the head coach of Kuban, after the match. - Unabandoned seven meters, interceptions. A little unlucky. There was a moment when we could catch up. But the girls did not finish the game until the end, they made hasty throws.

- The match was really tense, - Olga Akopyan, head of CSKA, agreed. - Thanks to the "Kuban" for a hard fight from the first to the last minute. We made all our losses in the first half and corrected it in the second. Many questions on defense, failed, received a penalty. Maybe the relaxation is taking its toll. I'm glad that we made it to the Final Four, but I'm not happy with the quality of the game.

Novorossiysk "Chernomorochka" also played at this stage of the cup. The home match against the Zvenigorod Zvezda caused a stir. Entrance instead of free was by invitation cards. The hall in Abrau-Dyurso officially accommodates one hundred spectators, and all one hundred and fifty gathered. For the first time the team played with a super league club.

It all ended with a logical victory for the favorite. But the hosts' fans were able to dream of victory at least for a time. And these are real feelings! In the first half of the half, the teams fought on equal terms. The hostesses even constantly led the score, and the goalkeeper Elizaveta Dyachenko beat off the shots over and over again. After the break, for which the rivals left with the score 11:10 in favor of Zvezda, the Moscow Region team played much stricter and won - 27:19.

- In the locker room, the coach said good words to us, after which we began to play. In the first half, they made a hero out of the goalkeeper. The hosts have a tempo goalkeeper, it was necessary to pause, the coach told us how best to act, - Natalia Nikitina, the main scorer of Zvezda in this game, shared her impressions.

“A woman's soul is darkness,” sighed the mentor of the guests Alexei Gumyanov. — The Black Sea air had such an impact on them: they felt warm, relaxed, saw the sun for the first time in a long time. No matter how much they said that you can’t relax, it only came to light during the break. I will give credit to Chernomorochka: well done to all the girls without exception.

- We understood that we were playing with the Super League and that sooner or later we would physically get addicted. In the second half, I released our second numbers, and the girls are still “raw”. But I'm happy with the team: we fought, the team chemistry was felt. Experience, physical preparation, rotation of the opponent's players still had an effect, - said Serhiy Matyazh, Chornomorochka's mentor.

The rest of the Final Four participants were Rostov-Don and Lada.

Dips and snow fun

Krasnodar SKIF, unfortunately, failed in the away game with the Chekhov Bears. The game was broadcast on federal television, but this, rather, played a minus for the southerners. Krasnodar's mentor, Dmitry Karlov, suggested that the team had burned out. As a result, the biggest loss of the season was 26:43. Earlier, Krasnodar lost eight goals at home to Viktor, the leader in the championship. The chance to rehabilitate will be in the home game against Dynamo-Sungul from the Chelyabinsk region on February 9th.

Another disappointing performance happened in the Dynamo volleyball game. In the seventeenth round of the Women's Super League Krasnodar unexpectedly lost to the Krasnoyarsk "Yenisei" at home. The Siberian team was eleventh, but the day before they received a charge of vivacity in the form of a change of coach. The Krasnodar players suddenly stumbled, failing their opening two games, 1:3 (21:25, 17:25, 26:24, 22:25).

- A great desire to win and reach eighth place in the standings prevented us from showing everything we can. We beat Leningradka and Proton without this responsibility,” Dynamo head coach Pavel Zabuslaev tried to explain the defeat.

Finally, more good news. Rugby Kuban opened 2023. Girls learn all the variety of rugby, in summer and autumn they played beach rugby. Now we have taken part in the Russian Rugby Cup in the snow. The wards of Maxim Amonov confidently passed the group stage without missing a single point. In the semi-finals, they outperformed Zilant Kazan - 9:3. But in the final, the VVA-Podmoskovye club turned out to be stronger with a score of 8:2. Nevertheless, the second place is a worthy result. Another team from the Krasnodar Territory - "Argat" (Ust-Labinsk) - took sixth place here among thirteen participants.



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