Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Dynamo – Lokomotiv, CSKA – Spartak

The upcoming 11th round of the Russian Football Championship is rich in top matches. It will host two major Moscow derbies. Dynamo will face Lokomotiv on Saturday. The blue and white team was stuck in the middle of the table, but the victories in the previous two rounds allowed Valery Karpin's team to move closer to the leading group. And now they will try to consolidate their success following the results of the confrontation with the second Locomotive. The Railwaymen are just one point behind the leading CSKA, who will play in the country's most popular derby with Spartak on Sunday. The Red and white have also won their last two matches and moved up from the middle of the table to the top five, and now they will try to improve their standings.

October 4, 19:45, VTB Arena (Moscow). October 5, 16:30, VEB Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier.

Mixed martial arts

UFC 320 Magomed Ankalaev – Alex Pereira

The title fight between Russian Magomed Ankalaev and Brazilian Alex Pereira will be the title fight at the upcoming MMA tournament in Las Vegas this weekend. The rematch for the UFC champion belt will be held in the light heavyweight division. Our fighter is the current champion in this category. And the Brazilian, number one in the world rankings, lost the light heavyweight title after losing to Ankalaev at the UFC 313 tournament in March. And now he's going to try to get it back.

October 5, 07:00, T-Mobile Arena (Las Vegas, USA). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! A fighter."

Weightlifting

World championship

Russian weightlifters will take part in the World Championships for the first time since 2021. They were suspended after February 2022, but six of our weightlifters will compete in neutral status at the World Championships in Ferde, Norway, starting on October 2. These are Elizaveta Zhatkina and Regina Shaidullina (both in the weight category up to 48 kg), Kristina Novitskaya (up to 53 kg), Maria Gruzdova and Anna Zubko (both up to 86 kg), and Viktor Kondratiev (up to 110 kg).

October 3rd, 11:00 – 19:30. 4, 5 October, 10:00 – 19:30. " Weightlifting Hall" (Ferde, Norway). Live broadcasts on the Start channel.

Hockey

The KHL Regular Season. Avangard – Lokomotiv, Spartak – SKA, CSKA – Metallurg

Friday is rich in top matches — there will be three of them at once. First, the leaders of the two conferences will meet in Omsk — the local Avangard, which tops the table in the East, will meet with the current Gagarin Cup winner Yaroslavl Lokomotiv, who is the first in the West. And then two games will be held in parallel in Moscow. Spartak will host its principal rival SKA St. Petersburg, and CSKA is waiting for Metallurg Magnitogorsk, which recently signed a contract with superstar hockey player Evgeny Kuznetsov.

October 3: 16:30, G-Drive Arena (Omsk); 19:30, Megasport Arena (Moscow), CSKA Arena (Moscow). Live broadcasts on KHL TV, KHL Prime and Kinopoisk.

Basketball

VTB United League. Zenit – UNICS

Last weekend, a new season started in the VTB United Basketball League. And next Sunday, the first top match in the current regular season will be held. Zenit St. Petersburg will host Kazan UNICS on its site. Both teams have been consistently ranked in the top four for many years. And for sure this season they will compete for victory in the playoffs with CSKA Moscow and Krasnodar Lokomotiv Kuban.

October 4: 14:00, "Arena" (St. Petersburg). Live broadcast on "Match! The game."