Zenit — CSKA, 20 January 2019

Our team lost for the first time in the VTB League after suffering its third straight defeat in St.Peterburg.

Zenit St.Petersburg vs. CSKA: 93-86 (-7)

Zenit: Armand (12 + 3 rb + 4 as + 4 to), Reynolds (21 + 8 rb + 4 as + 4 pf), Trushkin (3 + 4 pf), Simonovic (15 + 4 rb), Scrubb (17 + 4 rb + 5 as + 3 st) – start; Miller-McIntyre (9 + 4 as + 2 st), Balashov (DNP), Pushkov (7 + 3 to), Savrasov (DNP), Uthoff (5 + 4 rb + 2 as), Valiev (4 + 4 rb), Usoltsev (0)…

CSKA: De Colo (13 + 2 as), Antonov (2 + 2 as), Hackett (6 + 4 rb + 4 pf), Kurbanov (4 + 3 as + 4 to), Hunter (10 + 4 rb) – start; Bolomboy (10 + 12 rb), Peters (2), Ukhov (0), Rodriguez (15 + 8 rb + 4 as + 3 to), Vorontsevich (0), Clyburn (11 + 3 rb + 3 st + 3 to), Kulagin (13)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

We had very good opening on offensive end but defensively after very first minutes we allowed them to run and shoot amazing from a perimeter, 9 out of 12 two-pointers and 5 out of 8 three-pointers. That hurt us a lot. In the other three quarters we won by 2, 59-61, but it was not enough. We brought the game to the tie twice… Congratulations to Zenit. Unfortunately, big run that they had turned out to be costly for us.