Sports Weekend with Izvestia

Soccer

Russian Championship. "Krasnodar" - "Lokomotiv"

RPL teams will soon have a winter vacation. The upcoming 18th round will be the last in the current year. Then the Russian championship will resume in March. Among the final matches before the break the central one will be the confrontation between Krasnodar and Lokomotiv. Both teams are in the top four, but until recently they were at the top of the standings. However, they have failed in recent games, and on Sunday they will decide which of them will have time to rehabilitate for their failures before rest.

December 8, 19:30, Krasnodar Stadium (Krasnodar). Live on Match TV and Match Premier

Mixed Martial Arts

UFC 310tournament. Cyril Gun - Alexander Volkov

Within the framework of the upcoming evening of fights in Las Vegas, Russian fans will be most interested in the bout of our star heavyweight Alexander Volkov. He will meet with Frenchman Cyril Gan. It will be a rematch. Previously, the fighters met in June 2021. Then the 34-year-old Gan won by unanimous decision of the judges. Now the 36-year-old Volkov will try to take one of the last chances in his career to fight for the UFC title. Also on the preliminary card of the tournament is a welterweight bout between Russian Movsar Evloev and American Aljamain Sterling.

December 8: 04:25, Evloev vs. Sterling; 07:00, Gan vs. Volkov. T-Mobile Arena (LasVegas, USA). Live on Match TV and Match! Combatant

Hockey

KHL regular season. "Dynamo Moscow vs. Metallurg, Salavat Yulaev vs. Ak Bars, Lokomotiv vs. CSKA.

A small pause in the season will be and in the KHL. After the next weekend, the regular championship will stop for a week due to the games of the First Channel Cup with the participation of the national teams of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and KHL legionnaires. Three games will be the most interesting in the final days before the break. Dynamo Moscow, third in the Western Conference, will host the reigning Gagarin Cup winner Metallurg Magnitogorsk. Ufa will host one of the most crucial rivalries in the KHL - the "green derby" between local Salavat Yulaev and Kazan's Ak Bars. Both teams are in the top-4 in the East. And the regular season leader Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will face CSKA Moscow at home.

December 7, 17:00, VTB Arena (Moscow). December 8: 14:30, Ufa Arena (Ufa); 17:00, Arena-2000 (Yaroslavl). Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.

Biathlon

Cup of Russia. Second stage

The season in winter sports in Russia is gradually gaining momentum. So, biathletes on Friday begins the second stage of the Cup of the country. Like the first one, it will again be held in Khanty-Mansiysk. Six sets of medals will be played in three disciplines for women and men - sprint, pursuit and mass start. This tournament is considered the main one for the Russians during their suspension from international competitions.

December 6, sprint: 09:00, women; 12:00, men. December 7, pursuit: 09:30, women; 12:00, men. December 8, mass start: 10:00, women; 12:00, men. "Winter Sports Center named after A.V. Filipenko" (Khanty-Mansiysk). Live on Match TV, Match! Arena and Match! Planet

Winter session: how the last round of the RPL will be held in 2024

"Krasnodar" will play with "Lokomotiv", "Zenit" will host "Akron", "Spartak" will meet with "Pari NN", CSKA will go to "Fakel"

Soccer

French Championship. "Auxerre" - PSG, "Monaco" - "Toulouse", "Nice" - "Le Havre"

In the 14th round of the French Ligue 1 again important matches will face Russian legionnaires. Fighting with star Italian Gianluigi Donnarumma for a place at the heart of PSG goalkeeper Matvey Safonov will go with his team to visit the mid-table Auxerre, where the Parisians will try to strengthen their already serious leadership. They are seven points away from Marseille and Monaco. The second of these teams with Alexander Golovin will play at home with Toulouse. And struggling for survival "Le Havre" Daler Kuzyaev must win away "Nice" to get out of the relegation zone.

December 6, 23:00, stadium "Abbé Deschamps" (Auxerre, France). December 7: 19:00, Stade Louis II(Monaco, Monaco); 21:00, Stade Allianz Riviera (Nice, France). Live broadcasts onOkko Sport

Basketball

VTB United League. "Zenit - CSKA

The two strongest teams in Russian basketball in recent years will meet next Saturday in St. Petersburg. Zenit St. Petersburg, the winner of the VTB United League 2022 playoffs, will take on CSKA Moscow, the current trophy winner and the country's most decorated club. Both teams are at the top of the regular season. The Army men are still first, while the St. Petersburgers are behind them.

December 7, 14:00, Arena Stadium (St. Petersburg). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! Game