Chairman of the RFB Board of Directors, Honorary Chairman of the VTB United League and CSKA fan Sergei Ivanov in an interview with said that the Krasnodar “Locomotive” is playing very worthily in the VTB League semi-final series against the capital club.
On Tuesday, Lokomotiv-Kuban beat CSKA in Moscow in the fifth match of the VTB League semi-finals (85:68). The score of the four-game winning streak was 3–2 in favor of the Railroad.
– At the moment, the CSKA basketball team is painfully heading towards the final of the VTB United League. Did you expect such perseverance from Lokomotiv-Kuban?
– I did not expect it, if only because Milutinov’s injury was not foreseeable. Maybe he will recover in the seventh game, but in any case, the league management’s decision to lengthen the championship and extend the playoff series to four wins was absolutely correct. Last season proved it, this season even more so. It’s a tough fight in both semis, which is great. Admittedly, the same big four is in the lead: CSKA, UNICS, Zenit, Lokomotiv. I want a supplement. “Nizhny Novgorod”, for example, showed itself well in the season, but in the quarter-finals against Krasnodar they did not shoot. Lokomotiv, on the contrary, improved greatly, being in the playoffs completely different from those in the regular season. I take my hat off, a performance very worthy of southerners,” Ivanov said in an interview with .
The sixth game of the Lokomotiv-Kuban-CSKA semi-final series will take place on April 28 in Krasnodar. Watch the live broadcast of the match from 7:55 p.m. on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru websites.
Source : MatchTV
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