Sports Weekend with Izvestia
Soccer
Russian Championship. "Spartak" - "Lokomotiv"
After a pause for national team games in the RPL begins the second round. In the upcoming round of 16, the central match will be the Moscow derby between Spartak and Lokomotiv. Spartak are in the top five and are six points behind the third-place Railwaymen. To join the fight for medals, the Red and Whites need to win in the next meeting. But Loko also need to win to continue their fight for gold. So far, the Red-Green are three points behind the leading Krasnodar in the championship.
November 23, 18:00, Lukoil Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier
Figure skating
Russian Grand Prix of Figure Skating. Fifth stage
Next weekend in St. Petersburg will be held the final, fifth stage of the Russian Grand Prix of figure skating. After that, it will remain to hold the final, which will be held in mid-February in Krasnoyarsk. And the stage in St. Petersburg will be the most star-studded of all the competitions this fall.
Two-time Olympic bronze medalists of the 2022 Olympics, 2021 World Champions Anastasia Mishina and Alexander Galliamov, 2020 European Champions Alexandra Stepanova and Dmitry Kozlovsky will compete in pairs skating, and 2023 Russian Champions Elizaveta Khudaiberdiyeva and Egor Bazin will take part in ice dancing, in women's single skating Russian champion - 2023 Sofya Akatieva and vice-champion of Russia - 2024 Sofya Muravyeva will take to the ice, in men's single skating European champion - 2020 Dmitry Aliev and world junior champion - 2020 Andrey Mozalev will compete for medals.
November 23, short programs: 13:30, women; 15:15, men; 17:00, pairs; 17:50, ice dancing. November 24, free programs: 13:00, women; 15:00, men; 17:00, couples; 18:00, ice dancing. Yubileiny Sports Palace (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on Channel One and Channel One's website
Mixed Martial Arts
UFC Fight Night 248. Peter Yan - Davison Figueiredo
The main event of the weekend in MMA will be held in China. The UFC Fight Night 248 tournament will take place in Macau, the main confrontation of which will be a fight between two former champions of the promotion - Russian Petr Yan and Brazilian Davison Figueiredo. Our fighter won the lightweight title in July 2020 and the interim title in October 2021. But both times unsuccessfully conducted their defense, losing to American Aljamain Sterling. The second defeat from him gave the beginning of a black streak in the career of Yang, who further lost two more fights. And only in March of this year the 31-year-old athlete interrupted the series of failures.
Now Yang will try to consolidate the success of the fight with the 36-year-old Figueiredo, who held the championship belt in the lightweight division in 2020-2021 and 2022-2023, in the first case having made three successful defenses. The Brazilian has been competing at flyweight since December 2023 and has yet to lose a fight, with a total of three wins to his credit.
In another fight on the main card of the tournament in China, Russian welterweight Muslim Salikhov will step into the octagon against Chinese Song Kinan.
November 23: 14:00, main card; 16:30, main event. Galaxy Arena (Macau, China). Live on Match TV and Match! Combatant
Soccer
MLS American League. "Orlando City" - "Atlanta United"
A month ago it seemed that Alexei Miranchuk's Atlanta United had no chance of making the playoffs. The team only clung to a last-minute chance to qualify for the knockout round, where they won a penalty shootout (5-4) after a 2-2 draw with Clube de Foot Montreal and made it through to the playoffs.
Atalanta then knocked out Lionel Messi's Inter Miami after three games and made it to the quarterfinals. Miranchuk became one of the heroes of these confrontations. Now he and his team will have to fight for the semifinals in an away match against Orlando City. At this stage, the confrontation consists of one game, so next weekend everything will be decided for Atlanta and Alexey, who earlier this week played in Volgograd for the Russian national team in a friendly against Syria (4-0).
November 24, 23:30. Exploria Stadium (Orlando, USA).
French Championship. "Monaco" - "Brest", PSG - "Toulouse", "Nantes" - "Le Havre"
Competitions in the French Ligue 1 resumes after a two-week pause for national team games. In the coming days will be held the 12th round. Traditionally, the matches of the two leaders of the championship are of the greatest interest to Russian spectators. PSG will host at home "Toulouse". Two rounds earlier in the base of the Parisians against "Lance" (1:0) the entire match played goalkeeper Matvey Safonov, who has already played three games in the current championship. It is not excluded that the Russian will appear on the field and in the next meeting, as it can be seen that the head coach Luis Enrique is trying to rotate the goalkeeper position and let our player play even in the presence of star Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Meanwhile, its home match will be held and the nearest pursuer PSG. "Monaco" a month ago was the leader of the championship, but the team Alexander Golovin issued a failed series of three matches without wins. And now it is six points behind the first place. To keep their chances for gold, they must not lose points.
And Daler Kuzyaev's Le Havre, who are in the penultimate place, will go to visit Nantes. "Le Havre" is threatened with relegation from Ligue 1, but the gap from the saving 15th place is only one point, so if they win in the next round, the team can significantly improve their position.
November 22: 21:00, Stade Louis II (Fonvieille, Monaco); 23:00, Stade Parc de Prance (Paris, France). November 24, 19:00, La Beaujoire - Louis Fontenot stadium (Nantes, France). Live streaming on Okko
Biathlon
Commonwealth Cup. Second stage
In the second half of November comes the time for the start of the season in winter sports. So, at the end of this week will be held the first official starts in Russian biathlon. The Commonwealth Cup stage in Khanty-Mansiysk will be the second, as one similar competition was already held in September, but in summer format, when athletes used cross-country skis instead of classic skis as part of the preparation period. In the next three days, Russian and Belarusian biathletes will play for six sets of medals - three each for men and women.
November 22, sprint: 09:00, women; 12:00, men. November 23, pursuit races: 09:00, women; 12:00, men. November 24, mass start: 09:00, women; 12:00, men. Alexander Filipenko Winter Sports Center (Khanty-Mansiysk). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet
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