“Zenit” beat VEF in the road game of the VTB United League championships.
The situation for “Zenit” has complicated by a little injury received by Janis Timma before the match – the captain of the team was out of the game and his compatriots started the game very good.
The first quarter ended with the score 25:22 in favor of the hosts.
In the second quarter, as often happens, the game completely changed. Opponents have found an antidote to attack each other, and the match was much less effective.
Only a quarter of 3-points shots of blue-white-blues for the first half of the game has reached its goal, and VEF led 42:41 after 20 minutes of the match.
But by the end of the third quarter “Zenit” began to increase an advantage. Tthe residents of Riga could make the first accurate shot in the last quarter only at the end of the 34th minute of the match. By the time the advantage of “Zenit” was double-digit. VEF found the strength to make the final breakthrough, but the advantage of blue-white-blues was too great. 82:73 – the blue-white-blues gain the heavy away victory.
Sergey Karasev scored 24 points.
