In the match of the regular season of the VTB United League, Nizhny Novgorod will host Zenit from St. Petersburg on its site.
"Nizhny Novgorod"Zoran Lukic's team in their last match, which was on November 23, showed a pretty good game and broke a series of two defeats in a row.
Nizhny Novgorod turned out to be stronger on its site than Astana from Kazakhstan with the score 86:59 (27:12; 23:15; 20:24; 16:8). In this meeting, defender Ivan Strebkov showed himself especially vividly as part of the Nizhny Novgorod club, he scored 16 points, made one rebound and completed three assists.
ZenitBut Javier Pascual's team won for the fourth time in a row.
The day before yesterday, Zenit defeated Samara with a score on its site in St. Petersburg 93:65 (23:17; 21:14; 22:23; 27:11). American forward Trey Tompkins showed himself well in terms of points as part of Zenit in this meeting, he scored 16 points, also made five rebounds and made two interceptions. But also in this meeting, Frenchman Thomas Ertel was noted, he scored 14 points, but at the same time set a season record for assists, there were as many as 16 of them, additionally Ertel made two rebounds.
Zenit and Nizhny Novgorod have played against each other quite recently this season. On the seventh of November in St. Petersburg, Javier Pascual's team was stronger with the score 76:66 (19:7; 19:13; 18:24; 20:22).
ForecastIn this match, Zenit is considered the undisputed favorite even on the road by bookmakers.
At the same time, in Nizhny Novgorod, it may not be the brightest game, we suggest that you put less than 156.5 points on the total.