The leader of the Ukrainian Basketball Championship in the Favbet Super League, the Dnieper continued the winning series, having managed to defeat Kyiv-Basket in the capital in the capital with filled stands. Match account - 76:73.
The Dnieper seized the initiative from the start, by the middle of the first quarter they issued an ambiguous advantage and won the ten -minute 26:12. At the start of the second ten -minute, the Dnieper led +16, and at that time it seemed that the champion would not have problems. But then the Kyivians, who played without Pavel Burenko, began to intercept the initiative and rapidly change everything on the site.
If in the first quarter the Dnieper scored 26 points, then for the second and third together 25. Kyiv-Basket in the last 7 minutes of the second quarter and 7 minutes of the third scored 35 points and made an invoice from 17:32 to 52:45 in his favor. The Dnieper only then managed to stop the people of Kiev, but the last quarter turned out to be even and nervous.
The ending of the teams included with the minimum advantage of Kyiv Basket, but the experience, class and dimensions of the Dnieper players still preferred the leader of the championship. In the last attack, after one penalty at -Sushkin at -4, after a miss from the second penalty, Kiev managed to pick up the ball, Sandul gave to Zaitsev, who could be translated by three -eyed, but did not hit the game, but did not hit.
At the same time, Zaitsev spent the most effective match in the Super League, gaining 21 points, Sandul added 8 rebounds to 12 points, and Sushkin has 15 points.
At the Dnieper at once, five players scored 10+ points, and Maxim Zakurdaev and Stanislav Timofenko with 16 and 15 points, respectively, became the most effective.
The Dnieper won the 18th match in the season, remaining without defeat, and the third match from Kyiv Basket, while the Kyivians suffered the 6th defeat in 22 games, but confidently hold the second place.
Super League. Regular Championship Kyiv, PS Veneto-Sport Kyiv-Basket-Dnieper 73:76 (12:26, \u200b\u200b20:12, 20:13, 21:25).