As part of the group stage of the VTB United League Super Cup, Zenit from St. Petersburg will play against Lokomotiv Kuban from Krasnodar.
ZenitThe club played its last match against CSKA on September 18 in the final of the Kondrashin and Belov Cup.
In the first quarter, the team from St. Petersburg managed to beat its opponent by six points. And in the second quarter, Zenit scored a move and showed a good game in attack, leaving a gap of 14 points in the overall score. The third segment did not bring any significant changes, the Petersburgers were still confidently ahead of their opponent, but already by 13 points. The final of the match was also unsuccessful for the Moscow team, Zenit did not give their opponent a chance and defeated him with a score 79:58 (16:10, 26:18, 22:23, 15:7). It is worth noting Caleb Homesley and Thomas Wimbush in the Zenit squad. Homesley brought the team 26 points, made six rebounds and made six assists, becoming the best player of the match. Wimbush scored 21 points, made two rebounds and three assists.
"Locomotive-Kuban"Lokomotiv-Kuban, in turn, already started yesterday in the group stage of the VTB United League Super Cup.
The Krasnodar club played a match against Serbian Partizan from Belgrade. At the beginning of the first quarter, the Serbian team was able to get ahead by seven points, but after the middle of the segment, Partizan began to lose ground, and in the eighth minute of the match the score in the game became equal. At the end of the segment, the Belgrade team still managed to break away by three points in the overall score. At the very beginning of the second segment, the teams showed an equal fight, but closer to the middle of the quarter, Lokomotiv-Kuban was able to break away by three points. After the sixth minute, the overall score in the match became equal again, and towards the end of the match Partizan again seriously added to the attack, which allowed the Serbian club to break away by nine points in the overall score. After a long break, the wards of Alexander Sekulich were rapidly reducing the gap, but their opponent again switched to an active attack, thanks to which he was able to add seven more points to the gap in the overall score. The final quarter for Lokomotiv Kuban was also unsuccessful. At the very beginning, Partizan showed a good game in attack and defense. Belgrade showed such a game until the end of the entire match, which allowed them to bring the match to a confident victory with the score 70:92 (18:21; 14:20; 18:25; 20:26). Of the players of Lokomotiv-Kuban, Jaylen Barford scored in this match. He brought the team 19 points and intercepted the ball three times.
Personal meetingsThe last time Lokomotiv-Kuban and Zenit met each other on the fourth of April this year in a regular season match of the VTB United League.
The victory in this confrontation was won by the team from St. Petersburg with the score 91:75 (26:19; 16:14; 20:20; 29:22).
ForecastBoth teams perform well in attack, especially Zenit.
There should be a good and attacking game here, and therefore we suggest that you put more than 147.5 points on the total.
