Omsk “Neftyanik” lost to “Nika” the first match of the quarterfinals of the Cup of Russia

On Thursday, November 10, “Neftyanik” lost to “Nika” in the first match of the quarterfinals of the Russian Basketball Cup among women’s teams at home. The score of the meeting is 57:79. Further, the teams will need another game to identify the strongest in this pair.

“Neftyanik” on Thursday, November 10, in the quarterfinals of the Cup of Russia played the first match against “Nika” from Syktyvkar and was defeated 57:79.

The score of the meeting by periods – 8:21, 17:17, 15:16, 17:25.

According to the press service of the “oil”, the personnel difficulties of the club continued and even increased. In this case, the center Nadezhda Matrosova could not play due to illness. Because of this, out of five big players, only Victoria Ponamarchuk and Albina Khamitova were at the disposal of head coach Elena Lazutkina.

True, Nika was not in the optimal composition – due to injuries, its captain Raisa Musina and Sevara Nuritdinova were not in the ranks. In addition, according to the regulations, only two legionnaires could play in the match – because of this, the Canadian center did not enter the site. Saisha Grant-Allen. Nevertheless, “Nika” “on paper” looked more powerful.

“Oilman” in the score began to concede already in the first period, and then the opponents could not catch up. Of course, there were good moments in his performance, but more often the game resembled a problematic meeting of the Premier League in Samara, where they also lost. That is – and misses in the completion of attacks, and inconsistency in defense and unfortunate loss of the ball.

It is interesting that the guests had good field support – more than 20 of her fans. Their arrival was organized by the president of the club Ruslan Semenyuk. On his page on VKontakte, he personally played trips to the away cup match. As a result, during the game, the fans had a good roll call with the Omsk fans. In general, there was a full house of spectators in the Ivan Dvornoy SC that evening.

Fans of Nicky. Photo by Yulia Reshetnyak / press service of the Ministry of Sports of the Omsk Region

Earlier we wrotethat Neftyanik lost the Premier League match away to Peresvet Rostov.