Kazakh Russian striker “Astana” Valery Likhodey commenting on his team’s loss to CSKA in the United League regular season game, he noted that the army team won due to clear class superiority.
“Astana” lost on Saturday against CSKA in the away match of the United League regular season with the score of 72:100.
– An unpleasant defeat, certainly, but still not really catastrophic. We played well overall, but we had three times as many mistakes. Of course, CSKA took a lot of free kicks. We missed a lot of things under the ring. Of course, the CSKA class affected. They have super professionals in their field,” the striker told .
He also noted that at the second stage of the United League championship, it will be difficult for Astana to fight for the playoffs. According to the results of the last rounds, Astana takes 11th place in the standings. In the second stage of the championship, the team will continue to fight in subgroup “B”, in which two places in the playoffs will be played.
– Of course, I want to compete for a place in the playoffs. But it’s hard to say how realistic that is. Besides us, there are five other teams in the group with big budgets and big ambitions. Opponents want it too. But, judging by the first stage, it will be titanic for us to break through somewhere. Especially if the points scored in the first leg are taken into account. Of course, I want to leave the last places. In any case, we will always fight for every game and remain men, ”added the basketball player.
Source : MatchTV
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