Real Madrid — CSKA, 20 March 2014

The Army Men lost in Madrid in the game which is memorable with amazing duel of two best small forwards in Europe and Real’s accuracy – the hosts almost did not turn the ball over and won back exactly 14 points lost in Moscow.

Real Madrid vs. CSKA: 93-79 (-14)

Real Madrid: Fernandez (28 + 4 rb + 4 st), Reyes (8 + 5 rb + 5 pf), Mirotic (15 + 5 rb), Rodriguez (10 + 8 as), Darden (8 + 4 rb), Llull (10 + 3 rb + 5 as), Bourousis (10), Slaughter (1), Mejri (3 + 3 rb)…

CSKA: Micov (6 + 4 pf), Fridzon (8), Jackson (2), Pargo (10 + 4 to), Krstic (14 + 4 pf), Weems (28 + 5 rb + 6 as), Vorontsevich (2 bs), Kaun (5 + 4 pf), Khryapa (7 rb + 3 to), Hines (6 + 3 rb)…

Ettore Messina, CSKA head coach:

Real played great for all 40 minutes. The opponents were mentally strong and weren’t nervous. We kept it close in the first half but lost control in the third quarter. Sasha Kaun got in foul trouble and it was felt as we could not use him together with Nenad Krstic as we planned. But I don’t complain – this is how the game went. The outcome was decided by our turnovers which led to 8-10 easy points scored by our opponents. Still we fought till the end. We could save our margin from the home game but we weren’t lucky in the end when we missed couple of shots.