The team from Nizhny Novgorod has now started a slightly lame step, full-fledged victories are somehow not enough, now in 4 rounds in a row Torpedo cannot get Victoria in the regular time of the match. No matter how well the Nizhny Novgorod team looked good all season, to be honest, they did not succeed in matches against SKA. The teams have already met twice in the season and in both cases the team from Nizhny Novgorod confidently lost with the score 0:3 and 2:6. Now, Torpedo is clearly not at his best, and it may not be easy for him to find justice for the St. Petersburg. Of course, the hosts will try to resist the championship leader, but they couldn’t do it even when they were in great shape themselves. Now that the Torpedo’s movement is not as high quality, and even more so, you can’t expect success from them…

SKA is still confidently in first place in the league and it has long been clear that this position is not handed over to anyone. Maybe the game of the team from Saint Petersburg doesn’t look perfect at the moment, but they don’t really need it now. They just keep the performance bar high and everything works out for them. In the previous 6 rounds, SKA made only one mistake, they lost to CSKA, but they confidently coped with the rest of their rivals. As I said, SKA had absolutely no problems with Torpedo this season and they easily smashed their opponent in both matches. Now SKA is continuing the series of victories, but Nizhny Novgorod is in decline and it is difficult for the hosts to count on success in the reporting round.