In the full moon without Lazaros Popadopoulos, the Moscow army looked like a club without a knob. Now it has become clearer than clear. No matter how people assure the honest leader of the Dynamo squad Dushan Ivkovich, they say he managed to adapt his initial ones to heavy battles without the Greek hero, basketball players in white-blue clothes looked unconvincing. And their cavalry attacks in the old days more and more crazy crowds of Polovtsy reminiscent of the buildings.
And then he threw the cry of voivode Ivkovich, and the wounded Popadopoulos returned from treatment. Muscovites were doing well. To the left, Lazaros will wave his hand - he will pick up the selection, to the right - he will throw two points, he will direct his eyes directly - wait for the transfer from him. So it turned out that in the first minutes of the battle with the Turkish hordes under the banner of “Ephesus Pilsen” Popadopoulos was in the spotlight. With him the drawing of the game with a team colorful popular print appeared: the ball fluttered along the arc of a bird, often descended into the depths of the enemy’s defense, but returned from there with a greedy hero.
Quite a bit of water flowed, and the advantage of the defenders of the Krylatsky field was calculated with double-digit numbers.
Then governor Ivkovich did not begin to harass his hope, sent him to wipe his sweat and drink some water. At first Lazaros had a hard time: the smart son of the Albanian land, Ermal Kucho, who is known under the name of Kurtoglu in Turkish lands, that day prettyly patted the center Greek, who did not return his former mobility - the Istanbul giant managed to score 18 points in 15 minutes. Well, he himself sometimes didn’t keep up with the opponent, because he didn’t stay on the battlefield for a long time - the foolish judges gave him fouls too quickly.
It would be time for the Turkish army to take flight, but the character of the overseas legionnaires proved to be very strong. Know Khoras Jenkins and Drew Nicholas from a distance they shot themselves (in this manner they had sunk in the previous Olympiakos rounds, they had almost knocked Klimio off), and their compatriot Markus Hayslip turned out to be a three-headed Serpent Gorynych in all places. He doesn’t seem to be visible, when he suddenly soars higher than anyone else, on the shield of someone else’s dance he will arrange al from a distance, he will successfully shoot.
Without Popadopoulos, at the head, the Dynamo was afraid to give the ball closer to the enemy ring. Yuri Vasiliev is more and more inclined to play in the distance, and he is in no hurry to give passes, and dark-skinned strong man Obinna Ekezi has an attachment to defense and even often does not understand partners - I have to listen to Ivkovich's angry shouts. So Moscow riflemen had to fight personally. True, this time it turned out impressively: as always, Dmitry Domani fought, from a distance Travis Hansen and Eddie Gill fell, and Boyan Popovich threw his usual terrible step into the thick of the army, intending the squad gradually, but reliably. Several times the Turkish regiments approached a dangerous distance, and left without a slurping slurp. The owners found their own diligence, multiplied by luck. Who will come to us with the ball ... But when Popadopoulos rushed into the battle again, the guests had nothing to hope for at all.
And the Moscow people not only managed to rejoice at the victory. Well done Dynamo and had the chance to amuse: Hansen pinned from above after an attack by Gill, and the hero Popovich pulled balls off a maple parquet that the mower waved with a sickle, but took points reliably, having missed only two times (4 out of 5 from the game, 8 out of 9 were penalized). Oktay Makhmuti, the leader of Istanbul, got into a speech after a technical and impudence foul of such an outrageous Moscow. To say that the language at the press conference did not turn around.
And we were there, we drank the victory honey, they forgot to pick up Turkish beer.
Nikolai TSYNKEVICH