Monday’s top matches: Russia U23 – Ak Bars, Rublev – Wild and Verona – Juventus
Mikhail Georgiev August 25, 2024, 21:00 Moscow time Audio version: Your browser does not support the audio element.
We start the sports week with sports: exciting football, the quarter-finals of the Russian rugby championship. We have collected all the most interesting things!
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🏉 15:00: “Enisey-STM” – “VVA-Podmoskovye”, Russian Rugby Championship, quarter-finals, 2nd match 🏒 15:30: Russia U23 – “Ak Bars”, Nikolai Puchkov tournament 🎾 19:30 *: Andrey Rublev (Russia, 6) – Thiago Wild (Brazil), US Open, 1st round ⚽️ 19:30: Rodina – Rotor, Primera Liga, 7th round ⚽️ 21:45: Verona – Juventus, Serie A, 2nd round ⚽️ 22:30: Villarreal – Celta, Primera, 3rd matchday
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🏉 15:00: “Enisey-STM” – “VVA-Podmoskovye”, Russian Rugby Championship, quarter-finals, second match
Intrigue: Can Enisey score more than 50 points again?
There is no sporting intrigue in this match. In the first match, the Krasnoyarsk team defeated VVA by a difference of more than 40 points. It is unlikely that Enisey will be able to win big at home in front of its own fans: the difference in the class of the teams is too great. However, the locals do not have to strain themselves, as any victory will take them to the semi-finals. Compared to the first match, Krasnoyarsk has one more Russian player: South African Francois Esterhuizen received Russian citizenship. So now the Russian is the best player in the national championship in terms of the number of attempts scored.
The leader of the Yenisei became Russian:
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The leader of the Yenisei-STM rugby team has received Russian citizenship
🏒 15:30: Russia U23 – Ak Bars, Nikolai Puchkov tournament
Intrigue: Will Ak Bars continue to defeat his opponents?
The Kazan team started the tournament in Puchkov very quickly. Anvar Gatiyatulin’s team first defeated Kunlun 1-0 and then confidently beat Severstal 3-0. And in the match against SKA we had no problems for the most part. Will the Russian Olympic team be able to impose a fight on this “Ak Bars”?
Kazan has seriously strengthened in the off-season:
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“The coach said that we stole the gold from the Russian team.” Interview with a Canadian from Ak Bars
🎾 19:30*: Andrey Rublev (Russia, 6) – Thiago Wild (Brazil), US Open, first round
*Match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: How will Rublev deal with the difficult Brazilian at the start of the US Open?
The Russian starts the US Open with a match against the difficult Brazilian Thiago Wild, who sensationally knocked Daniil Medvedev out of the draw in the first round of Roland Garros 2023. And Andrei himself defeated Wild at the start of the Australian Open 2024 in just five sets. The winner of the new match will then fight one of the Christopher Eubanks – Arthur Rinderknesh pair.
Full tennis schedule for the day:
Top 6 Monday matches in tennis: Kasatkina, Rublev and Erica at the US Open – 2024
⚽️ 19:30: Rodina – Rotor, First League, 7th round
Intrigue: Which team will break into the transition zone?
Both Rodina and Rotor are not averse to moving into the top three of the First League. And who deserves it more, they will have to find out in a personal encounter. After a not-so-successful start (four points in four matches), the Volgograd team perked up and managed two wins in a row. The Muscovites have the opposite situation: a great start (seven points in three matches) and only two in the next three. But the tournament is so dense that Ufa, in 15th place, and Neftekhimik, in fourth place, are separated by only five points. Any victory – and you are “on horseback”.
This is how the previous round went:
A super goal against Torpedo and the last match of the legend. How was the tour in the First League?
⚽️ 21:45: Verona – Juventus, Serie A, 2nd round
Intrigue: Will first-round sensation slow down another favorite?
Verona surprised everyone by beating Napoli in their first Serie A match under Antonio Conte last week (3-0). Juventus did not impress, although they managed the same result in the match against the newcomer from Como. What if the Veronese team gets the scalp of the assistant coach who is making his debut at a top club? Thiago Motta, unlike Conte, is only at the beginning of his journey and will probably have many more similar failures. Has the time come or is it too soon?
The season is already underway, but its trailer is not out of date yet:
Osimhen’s escape, Atalanta’s curse and Juve’s recovery: Great preview of Serie A
⚽️ 22:30: Villarreal – Celta, First, 3rd round
Intrigue: a match between teams from the top 3 of La Liga
Yes, yes, don’t be surprised, these are the teams that are now in third and first place respectively. Villarreal did not let themselves be beaten by the favourite Atlético (2-2) and eliminated Sevilla. Celta won on both occasions: Alavés (2-1) and Valencia (3-1). What if one of the teams becomes the new Girona? There are prerequisites for this. It only remains to implement them: often, a successful start and the resulting euphoria give way to sadness due to a sharp deterioration in results.
This preview is also relevant:
Real Madrid helpless, Atlético revolution and new Girona. Great progress of the La Liga season
