President of CSKA Andrei Vatutin on he called the Moscow team’s match against Zenit in the VTB United League regular season the highlight of the fall.
Sunday’s meeting in Moscow ended with a score of 83:77 (22:14, 24:27, 21:19, 16:17) in favor of CSKA.
— In recent years, the confrontation between Moscow and St. Petersburg, CSKA and Zenit – iconic matches. It doesn’t matter if it’s the regular season or the playoffs. And it’s great. It’s something that didn’t exist in Russian basketball, a new page. These are Euroleague level teams. And they are always big matches.
The match truly became the highlight of the fall, with over 10,000 spectators. Thanks to the supporters who came to the stands, they supported us a lot. Basta, who warmed up the crowd before the match, stayed during the match and witnessed our victory. The bar is set very high. The game was awesome.
Two equal teams met. To say that we dominated the whole match would not be correct. We lost the rebound. This game doesn’t stop there. Four rounds of the regular season await us, and then we hope that CSKA and Zenit will advance to the playoffs.
— At the end of October, you have a match against Lokomotiv-Kuban, a team that has not lost a single match at the start of the season. Do you have any idea how to beat such an opponent now?
— We have two matches before Lokomotiv, the technical staff has enough time to prepare. Of course, Loko’s performance at the start of this season was a big surprise. We all know that Andrei Vedishchev took on a double load and became the head coach of the team, a unique story. And what’s important is that he succeeds. We look forward to this meeting. This is another reason to take a closer look at the upcoming match,” Vatutin said in the “Gromko” show on .
CSKA, with five wins in six matches, is in second place in the VTB United League standings, Zenit, which suffered its second defeat in seven matches, is third.
In the next match, on October 20, the army team will play away against Perm “Parma”, the St. Petersburg team will meet “Uralmash” the next day in Yekaterinburg.
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