Loko closes the year confidently. The victory over the Nizhny Novgorod team was the third in a row for the railroad workers. Let us remind you that Krasnodar, whose coach Andrei Vedishchev became the coach in the summer, began the season with a series of nine won matches. But then there followed a not very stable period, during which Lokomotiv-Kuban won only five wins and five defeats.
However, by the end of the year, stability seemed to have returned to the southerners. The “railroad workers” go on vacation, sharing third and fourth places with Kazan UNICS. Now the main thing is not to lose the gained form. On January 4, Krasnodar will host Parma Perm.
But Paris Nizhny Novgorod will start the new year outside the top 5. Volzhan caught up with Ekaterinburg Uralmash, which the day before quite easily beat Moscow MBA-MAI on their floor – 85:60.
The Urals are equal in number of victories with Paris NN, but have superiority in personal meetings: both this season ended in favor of Uralmash.
Let us add that the current champion CSKA is leaving the leader for the New Year holidays with 19 victories in 22 matches. St. Petersburg’s Zenit has one less victory, but it also played one less match.
Moscow MBAMAI is still one of the main disappointments of the season
Perhaps the main disappointment at the moment is the performance of MBA-MAI, composed only of Russian players. The only worse team is Kazakhstan’s Astana, which has not won a single victory. Let’s see how the losers of autumn will use the pause.
Source: rg.ru
