“MK-Sport” presents a brief overview of all the most interesting that happened in the world of sports while you were sleeping.
Hockey
It is a wonderful tradition to start the morning with another achievement of the captain of the Washington Capitals, Alexander Ovechkin . So this time, the magnificent Ovi scores the 745th goal in the NHL, and before Jaromir Jagr’s performance, it remains to hit the opponents’ goal 21 more times.
The Russian’s puck flew into the gates of the Seattle Kraken, the newcomer to the National Hockey League, and Ovechkin has not yet scored with it. Now again in the league there is no team left who would not be upset by the Washington captain. True, this did not help to win. The final score of the meeting is 5: 2 in favor of Seattle.
The first (but certainly not last) time Ovi scores in Seattle ? pic.twitter.com/CNAthPIV3w— Washington Capitals (@Capitals) November 22, 2021
There is another Russian hero in the NHL today. Artemy Panarin named first star at home in the National Hockey League (NHL) regular season against the Buffalo Sabes thanks to an assistant hat-trick. The New York Rangers won 5-4 and Panarin recorded three assists.
Artemi Panarin.
That’s it. pic.twitter.com/GTcX8YAubd— New York Rangers (@NYRangers) November 21, 2021
Football
We can all breathe out calmly, because our national team will have a head coach during the play-offs for the World Cup in Qatar. Valery Krapin closed the question: it remains. You can’t scare you like that, Valery Georgievich!
However, when we saw him on the podium during the match between Krasnodar and Spartak, we guessed that Karpin would take his words about a possible departure back. This weekend, the first round of the RPL championship has come to an end, and Zenit is firmly on the first line (33 points). Behind him is the amazing Dynamo (29 points). Sochi is the third so far, which is even more surprising (27 points). Then Lokomotiv, Krasnodar and the long-suffering CSKA. Spartak finished the first round in 10th place (19 points), the leave for Ruy Vitoria is already somewhere in the top sheaf of papers on Leonid Fedun’s desk , but the coach still has a chance to surprise everyone, because this week the red and white will play with Napoli in the Europa League. Is there anything good in Spartak’s game? Read here .
And the most fiery this football weekend was the match of the French championship “Lyon” – “Marseille”. Because it was not finished. Two minutes after the starting whistle, a bottle flew into Dimitri Payet’s head . Yes, again!
⚡ And here is a video of the incident that caused the match to be stopped in Lyon.
A bottle arrives at Payette, ice is immediately applied to the player and assistance is provided. Football players are taken off the field. Tin. Just tin? pic.twitter.com/1y7aDUZFYP– Match TV (@MatchTV)
This has already happened this season when Marseille met Nice. It all ended with a massive brawl and a technical defeat for Nice.
This time there was no massive fight, although one of the Lyon fans quickly identified the culprit and, with the help of a couple of punches, explained to him how wrong he was. But the referee of the meeting, Ruddy Bucke , decided not to continue the game, because the organizers of the match did not create safe conditions for its holding. The match has been postponed indefinitely.
Tennis
Our main hope Daniil Medvedev failed to defend the title of champion of the Final Tournament, losing in the final to German Alexander Zverev . Read how it happened here .
Thanks to the team for a great 2021! ??. Appreciate all the work. ?? Next week @DavisCup and then we start getting ready for @AustralianOpen and the 2022 @atp season. pic.twitter.com/kak0rE7qzd– Daniil Medvedev (@DaniilMedwed)
“I was not ready mentally for 100 percent, – said Danya. “And when someone serves the way Sasha does today, he will definitely win.” The tennis player also complained about his shoulder. But we hope he is not as serious as Stefanos Tsitsipas with an elbow. The Greek, we recall, withdrew from the Final Tournament, and now it turned out that he needed an operation. It is now unclear what lineup will kick off the 2022 tennis season in Australia in January. Because Roger Federer has already said that he shouldn’t wait until summer. Most likely, after Wimbledon, he will end up with tennis. Rafael Nadal also frightened: he is not at all sure about an early return. Novak DjokovicIt seems to be fine, but you may not come to Australia because of the mandatory vaccination of the players, and the Serb is very careful about vaccinations. So, perhaps the biggest stars of the Australian Open will be Medvedev and Zverev.
Formula 1
Completed the Grand Prix stage in Qatar. The first to come was British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton, second to Red Bull’s Max Verstappen . The third was finished by the Spanish pilot of the “Alpin” team Fernando Alonso. Russian racer Nikita Mazepin , representing the Haas team, was the last to finish, taking 18th place. Read here how the race went and the main conclusions after it .
