Sports Weekend with Izvestia

Soccer

Russian Championship. 17 round. "Krasnodar vs. Spartak

Very soon the season in Russian soccer will go on a winter break of just under three months. The penultimate round in 2024 will take place next weekend and will end on Monday. The centerpiece will be a game in the south of the country, where Krasnodar, who are second and fighting for the lead, will take on Spartak Moscow. The Red-Whites have won their last four league matches and are trying to join the fight for medals. "Bulls" after two draws in the last rounds lost the lead and now must win to try to get ahead of the first place Zenit St. Petersburg.

December 1, 19:30, Krasnodar Stadium (Krasnodar). Live on Match TV and Match Premier

Tennis

Trophies of Northern Palmyra tournament

After February 2022, when Russian athletes were massively suspended from international competitions, our tennis players were the least affected by the sanctions - albeit in neutral status, they continued to play at major international competitions. However, holding prestigious tennis tournaments on the territory of Russia is out of the question. In this regard, the upcoming exhibition tournament in St. Petersburg "Trophies of Northern Palmyra" is the only competition in the season when some of our stars will be able to perform on their native land.

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This year Karen Khachanov, Diana Schneider and Anastasia Potapova will take to the court in St. Petersburg. In addition, the tournament will honor Olympic champion Elena Vesnina, who ended her career this week. She will take part in the Match of Legends, which will also feature Anastasia Myskina and Nikolay Davydenko. Among the current players, in addition to our stars, famous foreigners - Spaniard Roberto Bautista-Agut, Kazakhstan's Alexander Bublik and Yulia Putintseva - will take part.

November 29, 17:30 - 19:30. November 30, 12:30 - 18:30. December 1, 12:00 - 17:15. KSC "Arena" (St. Petersburg). Live on Match TV and Match! Country

Mixed Martial Arts

PFL Grand Prix Final

This weekend Riyadh will host the PFL (Professional Fighters League) Grand Prix Finals, a prestigious American fighting organization. The last tournament of the season will determine the winners in six weight categories. Six Russians will compete in four of them. Thus, in the main fight of the evening our Timur Khizriev will fight in a semi-lightweight with the British Brendan Loughnane. And Gadzhi Rabadanov in lightweight will fight with American Brent Primus. In two more categories the finals will be purely Russian: in welterweight Shamil Musaev will meet Magomed Umalatov, and in heavyweight Denis Goltsov will go into the octagon against Oleg Popov.

Nov. 29: 5:30 p.m., kickoff; 9:30 p.m., main card. Arena King Saud University (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia). Live streaming onOkko Sports

Biathlon

Cup of Russia. First stage

Biathlon season in Russia started last week with the first stages of the Commonwealth Cup. And next weekend in Khanty-Mansiysk the first stage of the Cup of Russia will be held. Within its framework four sets of awards will be played. On November 29, the winners of the men's and women's sprints will be announced. And on the weekend will be held two mixed relays - in the first of them, single (single-mix), in each team will run and shoot one man and one woman. In the second, the regular mixed relay, there will be four legs - two women's and two men's.

November 29, sprint: 09:00, men; 12:00, women. November 30, 09:30, single mixed. December 1, 09:30, mixed relay. "Winter Sports Center named after AV Filipenko" (Khanty-Mansiysk). Live on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet

Soccer

French Championship. PSG - "Nantes", "Le Havre" - "Angers", "Marseille" - "Monaco"

The upcoming 13th round of the French Ligue 1 will again be rich in interesting matches involving Russian legionnaires. In PSG, our goalkeeper Matvey Safonov has already played two games in a row in the starting lineup. Last weekend in the French championship he played without conceding a goal against Toulouse (3-0), and in the middle of this week he first took the field for Parisians in the Champions League, where he played a good match against Bayern Munich, but did not save his team from defeat (0:1). It is possible that on Saturday Safonov will play in a home match against one of the outsiders of the season "Nantes".

Second-placed Monaco are six points behind first-placed PSG. In order not to let the capital club far away, the Monegasques with Alexander Golovin in the squad need to win away to Marseille. In turn, getting out of the relegation zone "Le Havre" Daler Kuzyaev will take on its field "Angers".

November 30: 23:00, stadium "Parc de Prance" (Paris, France). December 1: 19:00, stadium "Océan" (Le Havre, France); 22:45, stadium "Velodrome" (Marseille, France). Live streaming on Okko Sport

Ski races

Russian Cup. Second stage

At the end of this week, the second stage of the Russian Cup in cross-country skiing will start, which will be held from December 1 to 4. Like the first stage, it will be held in the village of Vershina Tyoi in the Republic of Khakassia. At the beginning of the week there have already happened a few unexpected results. First of all - the lack of victories of the three-time Olympic champion Alexander Bolshunov. Our main star will try to improve on the second stage. However, in addition to Bolshunov, the spectators will be able to see many other status domestic skiers in action. On the first day of the competition will be played medals in the men's and women's 10 km classic sprint.

December 1, classic sprint: 06:00, women; 08:00, men. Teya Sports Center (Vershina Teya). Live broadcasts on the Russian Cross-Country Skiing Federation's VK page