Top 10 events on Thursday: Magnitogorsk – Spartak, Loko – Avangard and CSKA – Zenit
Mikhail Georgiev March 27, 2024, 21:00 Moscow time
What to pay attention to on March 28 in sports: many bright signs, including Daniil Medvedev’s match, battles at the Russian Biathlon Championship, the NBA and the NHL.
A quick transition to this schedule is in the top additional menu of the site: “Top matches of the day”.
See all events on March 28 at the Match Center
🏀 2:00: Orlando Magic – Golden State Warriors, NBA regular season 🎾 2:00*: Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia, 14) – Jessica Pegula (USA, 5), Miami, 1/4 final 🏒 2:30: Tampa Bay Lightning – Boston Bruins, NHL regular season 🎾 3:30*: Nicholas Harry (Chile, 22) – Daniil Medvedev (Russia, 3), Miami, 1/4 final 🏀 5:00: Denver Nuggets – Phoenix Suns, NBA regular season 🎯 9:00: Biathlon, Russian Championship 2024, mixed relay 🎯 12:00: Biathlon, Russian Championship 2024, individual mixed relay 🏒 17:00: Metallurg MG – Spartak, KHL – playoffs, 1/4 final 🏒 19:30: Lokomotiv – Avangard, KHL – playoffs, 1/4 final 🏀 20:00: CSKA – Zenit, United League, Group A We want to ask you about some of the products of the championship : you can improve the site
You can add an interesting match to your “Favorites” in the Match Center; To do this, click the ★ to the left of the event name. Then you can always find it quickly in the Match Center.
The time on the material is indicated in Moscow.
🏀 2:00: Orlando Magic – Golden State Warriors, NBA regular season
Intrigue: the hosts are on the move, can the “warriors” win?
Only the Sacramento Kings managed to pacify the Orlando Magic. Previously, the Florida Club won five games in a row and in total lost only four games of the last 15 played. The Golden State Warriors cannot boast of such results, because they alternate wins and losses. At the same time, the “warriors” will have to play the second match in two days, which is extremely difficult. At the beginning of the season, Steve Kerr’s team defeated Orlando (121:115), will the team led by Stephen Curry consolidate its success?
Is Curry in trouble in Golden State?
“We put the burden on his shoulders for 15 years.” Why did the Warriors cut Steph Curry’s minutes?
🎾 2:00*: Ekaterina Alexandrova (Russia, 14) – Jessica Pegula (USA, 5), Miami, 1/4 final
*The match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: Did Alexandrov deal with the second consecutive top 5 player?
Ekaterina Alexandrova shocked the tennis world by eliminating world number one Iga Swiatek in the fourth round of the Miami super tournament. Now the Russian will have to measure her strength with another representative of the top 5: the American Jessica Pegula. The girls already played once: in Rome 2021, Pegula was stronger. The winner of the new match will compete in the semifinals with one of the couple Caroline García and Danielle Collins.
Ekaterina surprised the tennis world in the Miami quarterfinals:
Alexandrov sensationally hit the world’s first racket! Swiatek’s winning streak is over
🏒 2:30: Tampa Bay Lightning – Boston Bruins, NHL regular season
Intrigue: will the match become a rehearsal for the first round?
Regardless of the outcome of the regular season, the Atlantic Division playoffs will be powerful. Right now, Boston and Florida are fighting for first place there (and first place in the league as a whole), and a pair from Tampa and Toronto will face them in the first round. We will see a match between two teams that seemed already predicted to be relegated, but are still staying afloat.
Main eastern intrigue:
It’s time for X. How can Ovechkin and his Washington team make the NHL playoffs?
🎾 3:30*: Nicholas Harry (Chile, 22) – Daniil Medvedev (Russia, 3), Miami, 1/4 final
*The match schedule may change and will be confirmed.
Intrigue: Will Medvedev reach the semifinals?
Russian Daniil Medvedev advances with confidence in the Miami Masters draw. In the quarterfinals his opponent was the strong Chilean Nicholas Harry. The tennis players met for quite a long time: in Barcelona 2019, and then Medvedev celebrated success. The winner of the new fight will then face one of the Tomas Machacs – Jannik Sinner couple.
Daniil is confidently moving up the Florida grid:
Victory number 350 in his career! Medvedev gave the German the nod and reached the quarterfinals in Miami
🏀 5:00: Denver Nuggets – Phoenix Suns, NBA regular season
Intrigue: Will the NBA champion take revenge for the recent disappointing defeat?
The Denver Nuggets, current champions of the National Basketball Association, lead the Western Conference with 51 wins and 21 losses. At the same time, the team led by Nikola Jokic has won four games in a row and is in excellent shape. The Phoenix Suns lost their last game against San Antonio, the worst club in the West in terms of results. Now “Sunny” will want to rehabilitate himself from such a defeat. Although the “Nuggets” also have a reason for motivation: in the last direct confrontation, Phoenix beat Denver in overtime with a score of 117:107. Who will win in the end?
Brother of NBA champion is suspected of fraud:
The brother of the NBA champion has become the subject of an investigation by the league. It’s about gambling
🎯 9:00: Biathlon, Russian Championships 2024, mixed relay
Intrigue: will the team from the Sverdlovsk region repeat the success of Spartakiad?
The team from the Sverdlovsk region was the undisputed favorite of the mixed relay at the Spartakiad of the Strongest 2024. It will be now. If it were not for the defeat in Zlatoust on homeland, the Tyumen region will want to rehabilitate itself. Team leader Alexander Loginov is on fire. Will his partners help him with this?
New stars shine in Tyumen, Chechen Republic!
“The prize money is more than my monthly salary!” Unexpected champion in Russian biathlon.
🎯 12:00: Biathlon, Russian Championships 2024, individual mixed relay
Intrigue: Will Victoria Slivko win another gold in the Czech Republic?
Victoria Slivko is one of the most outstanding people in Russian biathlon. She has already become the heroine of the sprint, having made a noble gesture. There is not enough team gold to continue the celebration. Evgeniy Garanichev will try to help her in this. The composition is the bomb!
Slivko has already become the heroine of the Chechen Republic. She did something worthy:
“I hope mom sees all of this.” Drama with tears after the first race of the 2024 Biathlon Championship
🏒 17:00: Metallurg MG – Spartak, KHL – playoffs, 1/4 final
Intrigue: Will Magnitogorsk support the Ural advance?
“Traktor” and “Avtomobilist” are already waiting for their opponents in the semifinals, but they probably don’t mind facing each other. One of the members of the Metallurg and Spartak couple will go to Yekaterinburg. The red and white won two home games after a rather mediocre performance in the Urals and at times seemed to have regained their regular season style. As the coaches like to say, this series is now up to two wins.
Brilliant speech by Andrei Razin:
Razin on the KHL’s decision to transfer: why did we bust our asses and take first place?
🏒 19:30: Lokomotiv – Avangard, KHL – playoffs, 1/4 final
Intrigue: Will Lokomotiv reach its first semi-final in seven years?
Changing Avangard’s coach in the middle of the playoffs seemed crazy, but now Sergei Zvyagin has won two of three games. True, it is difficult to say that Avangard dominated these matches: the Omsk team chose extremely cautious tactics, and in the recent Omsk match they successfully converted the majority and added at the right moment. Zvyagin needs to win both matches from him and patience alone is unlikely to be enough against such an opponent.
🏀 20:00: CSKA – Zenit, United League, Group A
Intrigue: the blue and white have already beaten the army at home, can they do it away from home?
The last part of the regular season proved incredibly difficult for CSKA. The team led by Emil Raikovich lost four matches, an anti-record for the club in the VTB United League, and in the last home match they lost to Yenisei. Since the beginning of the second stage, Zenit only lost once: against the current tournament champion, UNICS. At the same time, the blue-white-blue team already calmly defeated the army team at home on March 1 (81:71). CSKA is not in the best shape, but Zenit can reduce the gap in the table with the Moscow club. The match promises to be intense.
Analysis of an important United League match:
Loko cooled the ardor of the United League leader. UNICS tried, but the Krasnodar team was unstoppable!
