May 8 «Spartak-Primorye e «in the championship of Russia PBL will Unics Kazan. beginning of the match in the UK «Olympian» at 18:45.
Tickets are on sale at the UK box office «Olympian» (street Battery, 2 tel. 273-41-41).
Hours of operation:
May 7: 14:00 to 19:00
May 8: 14:00 to 20:00
In the first round of the championship of Russia PBL «Spartak-Primorye» scored a sensational victory in Kazan. Playing during the match with a difference of 12 points, Primorye changed the course of the game, and Delaney and Gillenvote had 2 seconds at the finish line to complete a winning combination — 69:70. This defeat was one of the reasons for the resignation of Aco Petrovic, instead, took over as head coach known Russian expert, former coach of the Russian team CSKA Moscow Stanislav Eremin, who held the post in UNICS athletic director.
Currently Unics ranked 6th in the standings, and the match will be in Vladivostok to Kazan last in the championship of Russia. But even if he wins it Eremina wards are unlikely to go higher, so the competition is very high in the second half of the table.
This season Unics could represent Russia in the Euroleague, but was unable to qualify for the main event of the Old World. In the European Cup Kazan successfully passed the second group stage, but lost the first stage right through the Spanish «Valencia» on aggregate.
In the VTB United League club from the capital of Tatarstan will start a playoff series with a quarter-final with the club, who managed to do something that could make Unics — namely, to win the European Cup. This club — «Lokomotiv-Kuban». Second place in Group A in the regular season allowed citizens a miss eighth finals.
The last 3 matches Unics lost. In early April, at home with a minimum difference of Kazan lost «Nizhny Novgorod» (56:57), and then did not stand in front of the local Liubertsy «Triumph» (72:79), and in late April, the biggest loser in Krasnoyarsk «Yenisei» (70:83 ).