Sports weekend with Izvestia

Football

The Russian Championship. Spartak — Dynamo, Krasnodar — CSKA

At the end of this week, the Russian football season will go into hibernation. The RPL teams will hold the last 18th round of the Russian championship in 2025, after which they will go on vacation and resume the tournament at the end of February.

And in the upcoming last round before the break, the audience will see two top matches. On Saturday, there will be a crucial Spartak Moscow — Dynamo match between the teams that failed the first part of the season, recently replaced their head coaches and have not yet appointed new ones in their place. For the current acting mentors of the teams — Spartak player Vadim Romanov and Dynamo player Rolan Gusev — the next match will be the last in this capacity. Perhaps some of them will be confirmed as the head coach on a permanent basis. But in order to keep the chances of that, you have to win the derby.

On Sunday, the first part of the season will end with the confrontation of the most successful clubs in Russia in 2025 — the reigning champion and leader of the current championship, Krasnodar, will take on the current winner of the Cup and the Russian Super Cup, CSKA Moscow, which is in second place, one point behind its opponent.

December 6, 16:30, Lukoil Arena Stadium (Moscow). December 7, 19:00, Ozon Arena Stadium (Krasnodar). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match Premier

"I'll rate the last part of the season by eight and a half points"

Football player of CSKA and the Russian national team Danil Krugovoy — about the results of the team, the upcoming match with the leader and personal results of the year

Mixed martial arts

UFC 323. Peter Yan — Merab Dvalishvili

One of the main mixed martial arts events of the year will take place in Las Vegas next weekend. The key fight of the UFC evening in Nevada will be a rematch in the light heavyweight division between the current champion in this category, Georgian Merab Dvalishvili and former Russian champion Peter Yan.

Our fighter held the title from July 2020 to March 2021 and the interim title from October 2021 to April 2022. Yan had already fought Dvalishvili in March 2023. Then Merab won. He has held the championship title since September 20240. Dvalishvili has defended the championship three times this year, and if he defeats Jan, he will become the first in UFC history to make four successful defenses in one calendar year. For Peter, this is a great chance to regain his lost title.

November 28, 23:00. Vologda Sports Palace (Vologda). Live broadcast on REN TV

Box

World championship

The men's World Boxing Championship, which is taking place in Dubai, started this week. It's time for the 1/16 finals on the weekend. Competitions are held in ten weight categories. In each of them, Russian representatives are competing for medals, many of whom have already been champions and prize-winners of the world championship and the Olympic Games. The winners of the tournament will be determined on December 13-14.

December 5-7, 16:00 - 21:00. Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium (Dubai, UAE). Live broadcasts on Match TV and Match! The fighter"

Biathlon

The Commonwealth Cup. The first stage

The winter sports season is already in full swing. Last week, the first stage of the Russian Biathlon Cup was held in Khanty-Mansiysk, and on Thursday the second stage of the Commonwealth Cup began there, where the best representatives of Russia and Belarus, who have not yet been able to gain admission to international competitions, will also gather. On Thursday, the winners in the sprint became known: Russian Eduard Latypov for men and Belarusian Dinara Smolskaya for women. There will be a mass start for women and men on Friday, and a mixed relay race on Sunday.

November 28, 3 p.m., men's sprint. November 29, 09:30, mixed relay race. November 30, pursuit race: 09:00, women; 12:30, men. Alexander Filipenko Winter Sports Center (Khanty-Mansiysk). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet

Attention to the start: skiers will check their readiness for the World Cup in Tyumen

Russian biathletes compete with Belarusians in Khanty-Mansiysk

Ski racing

The Russian Cup. The second stage

The new season in Russian ski racing began with a scandal. At the first stage of the Russian Cup in Kirovsk, our main star, three-time Olympic champion, two-time World Cup winner Alexander Bolshunov, pushed skier Alexander Bakurov in the back at the finish of one of the races, which led to his injury. Bolshunov was severely criticized by the sports community, including his colleagues. As a result, the Russian Ski Racing Federation disqualified Alexander before returning to the Bakurov track.

Bolshunov will definitely not be at the second stage of the Cup of Russia in Tyumen, which started on Thursday with individual races for women and men. In the absence of the main star, young Savely Korostelev, Bolshunov's main competitor, won the first race. There will be two more races for men and two for women over the weekend: a sprint on Saturday and a mass start on Sunday.

December 6, sprint: 08:00, preliminary race, women; 08:40, preliminary race, men; 10:00 - 10:25, quarterfinals, women; 10:30 - 10:54, quarterfinals, men; 11:00 - 11:06, semifinals, women; 11:12 - 11:18, semifinals, men; 11:28, final, women; 11:38, final, men. December 7, mass start: 10:00 a.m., women; 12:00 p.m., men. The Pearl of Siberia Sports Complex (Tyumen). Live broadcasts on Match TV, Match Arena and Match Planet