Athletistic / Hockey. In the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup final, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will host Metallurg Magnitogorsk
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Hockey. KHL. The final. Fourth match. “Lokomotiv” – “Metallurgist”. Direct
The next Gagarin Cup, the 15th, could end today. On Wednesday, April 24, Lokomotiv Yaroslavl will host Metallurg Magnitogorsk in the fourth final match of the title series. At the moment, Magnitka leads with a score of 3:0 and if it wins today, it will become the third winner of the Gagarin Cup, overtaking Ak Bars Kazan and CSKA Moscow in this indicator. Recall that Metallurg won two previous titles in the 2014 and 2016 seasons. Lokomotiv is participating in the final series for the second time in its history. In the first Gagarin Cup in 2009, the Yaroslavl team lost to Metallurg with a score of 3:4.
Interestingly, Magnitogorsk ended both winning streaks in the Gagarin Cup final with a score of 4:3. This time, Metallurg has the opportunity to win the title, which has only happened once in 14 editions. In 2019, CSKA beat Avangard Omsk with a score of 4:0.
The score of the current series, many believe, does not match what the teams are showing on the ice. If the two defeats of Lokomotiv in Magnitogorsk could still be attributed to chance of circumstances and the luck of the opponent in the decisive episodes, then the home fiasco of the “railway workers” two days ago turned out to be completely illogical . Igor Nikitin’s team unleashed such a flurry of attacks and dangerous moments on their opponents during the match that they simply had to play for victory as a whole. However, in Metallurg, Ilya Nabokov showed simply incredible courage, who simply carried everything that flew into the goal. The goalkeeper of Magnitogorsk missed the opponent’s only goal in the match in a situation where, after one of the episodes of the game, he was left without a stick. Otherwise, Lokomotiv failed to break through Nabokov, despite numerous scoring chances.
Additionally, Her Majesty Fortuna also played for Metallurg. And there is no other way to describe the dropped puck in overtime, when Isaev simply put the ball in his own goal. Will Lokomotiv recover? The answer to this question can only be given by the game itself. In principle, from the point of view of the score, nothing has changed much for Igor Nikitin’s team. The Yaroslavl team had to win four matches before the start of the final series, and now. The question is different: Metallurg only has one victory left before the title, not four. And residents of Magnitogorsk can get it today. After the third fight, Andrei Razin said that the strongest were lucky. Well, today we are going to check if that is the case.
Hockey. KHL. The final. Fourth match. “Lokomotiv” – “Metallurgist”. Direct
Live online streaming of this match will begin at SPORT.RU April 24 at 7:00 p.m. Moscow time
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