"Spartak-Primorye" meets the sworn friends of the "Nizhny Novgorod"

April 26 "Spartak-Primorye" in the championship of Russia PBL will make BC "Nizhny Novgorod". Kick-off is at 18:45. Live video game, see the site of the club .

Match "Spartak-Primorye" with this opponent will be the fourth of the season. The confrontation teams this year with a home victory "Lower" in the Russian PBL championship with a score of 74:65. Then followed a two-legged confrontation, the purpose of which was a trip to the "Final Four" of the Cup of Russia. And, despite the defeat with a difference of 6 points in the first game of the series, "Spartak-Primorye" won a landslide victory in the second quarterfinal match (80:64) and the second year in a row walked Nizhny Novgorod in the fight for a place in the top four strongest teams in the National Cup. In the second leg in Vladivostok Troy Gillenvote broke a personal record this season, gaining 37 minutes 26 points.

In the season 2011/12 on the way to the "Final Four", "Spartak-Primorye" scored wins in two games quarterfinal series on the "low end" (80:73 and 77:74), and for the first time in its history, the semi-finals and won the silver in the end Russian Cup medals. This year, "Spartak-Primorye" did not remain without a medal, winning the bronze.

At the moment, "NN" is the fifth in the championship standings Russian PBL: 17 games, 7 wins, 10 losses. At the end of the regular season VTB United League "New York" took fifth place in Group B with a positive balance of wins and losses - 10/8 ahead of the Moscow Region "Triumph". In the first round of the playoffs Nizhny Novgorod compete for access to the 1/2 finals, where the winner is already waiting for Lithuanian «Zalgiris» with the St. Petersburg "Spartacus."

Last season the club from Nizhny Novgorod, Russia completed the championship at the penultimate ninth place in the Cup of Russia was eliminated in the quarterfinal stage in Evrochellendzhe did not come out of the second group stage, and in the VTB United League made it to the playoffs, but lost in the 1/8 finals in a series of two wins Lithuanian "Lietuvos Rytas".

By the completion of the transfer window "Nizhny Novgorod" sent to the "Ryazan" Dramira Zibirova defender, and he added a young graduate of the Belgorod basketball and leader suburban "Sparta & K," serving in the Super League, Denis Zakharov.

Last match calendar Nizhny Novgorod conducted on April 7 in the championship of Russia. And then in Kazan away victory over Unics with a difference of only 1 point team Zoran Lukic brought cast at the last second Obie Trotter - 56:57.

Gundars Vetra, head coach of FC "Spartak-Primorye":

- This will be the fourth game of the season with the "Nizhny Novgorod". Both we and they know us well enough already. Also, looking at the standings, you can see that both teams need a win to climb as high as possible. It is not just a game, it will have a glow like in the playoffs. We are preparing for the game, think about it and do our best to win. I hope that this match in our team all be healthy.