President UNICS Yevgeny Bogachev told that the VTB United League match against CSKA in the Kazan basketball hall is expected to be sold out and that striker Louis Laberie has returned to training after an ankle injury.
The regular meeting of the VTB United League championship will take place on Thursday in Kazan and will start at 19:30 (Moscow time). CSKA, with 10 victories in 11 matches, leads the championship standings, UNICS, with eight victories and two defeats, is second. Last season, UNICS became champions of the United League.
— It will of course be a difficult match. And not all players are completely on the right track: some are a little weakened after suffering from acute respiratory viral infections. But nothing, we’ll see. As they say, you have to fight and see what happens. It’s difficult to say anything about each match. It seems that this is not the beginning of the championship, the season is in full swing and many seemingly not the strongest teams put up serious resistance to the strongest and win against them. We don’t know what and how it is currently happening in CSKA, but they beat Zenit and are now in the lead. In general, everything is fine with them, the opponent is strong, therefore, I repeat, a difficult match is expected.
All tickets for the match are already sold. The room will be full. It’s very nice that the spectator comes. Interest in the club, and in basketball in general, has increased a lot since we became champions last season. Even in matches with non-leaders, there are a lot of people in the audience. The number of spectators doubled compared to previous years.
— What do you think are the advantages of your team compared to the army team?
— If I see them, of course, I won’t tell you about them before the match against CSKA. What if you told the military everything (laughs). Joke. You know, a meteorologist professor was asked: “What will the weather be like tomorrow?” He replied: “Give me a month, I will calculate everything and tell you.” » Here it’s the same: let’s wait for the match and see what happens afterwards. In general, we will fight and hope to succeed.
— Louis Laberie missed the game against Yenisei due to an ankle injury. Will he be able to play tomorrow?
— He was treating his ankle, but today he was already training with the team.
– So everything is fine, and he should play tomorrow?
“I can’t say if it’s okay or not: tomorrow will tell us.” There hasn’t been enough training yet,” Bogachev told .
Watch the live broadcast of the UNICS – CSKA match on and Match! Match” Thursday from 7:25 p.m. (Moscow time).
Source : MatchTV
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