CSKA — Parma, 26 March 2025

CSKA PBC – Parma Perm region: 94-85 (+9)

CSKA: Avramovic (21 + 3 rb + 4 as + 2 st), Ukhov (3 as), Jean-Charles (9 + 6 rb + 2 as + 2 bs), M'Baye (17 + 5 rb + 3 as + 2 st), Kurbanov (2 + 2 as) – start; Mikhailovskii (0), Ware (5), Jekiri (14 + 7 rb), Trimble (14 + 3 rb + 6 as + 3 st), Astapkovich (7 + 3 as), Karpenko (0), Antonov (5 + 3 rb)…

Parma: Whittaker (14 + 6 as + 3 to), Ruzhentsev (5 + 6 rb + 2 as + 4 to), Il’nitskiy (5 + 2 as + 5 pf), Nevels (21 + 7 rb + 6 as), Shashkov (11 + 7 rb) – start; Svinin (3), Yakushin (8 + 4 pf), Cheburkin (2 + 5 rb), Yegorov (0), Zakharov (16 + 5 rb)…

Andreas Pistiolis, CSKA head coach:

As always, I want to say "thank you" to the fans who supported us at the game. I know that coming here to Krylatskoye is associated with certain difficulties, so this makes us treat this support with special gratitude. As for the game, our opponent played today without pressure, without stress. This is not the first time we have experienced difficulties in such games. At the previous press conference, we said that we prefer to foul more than less. Today, we just didn't work hard enough in terms of toughness, due to which we allowed the opponent to feel comfortable, which led to problems. Today, I am satisfied, in fact, only with the third quarter, in which we at least somehow played defense. At the same time, we controlled the course of the game, we simply could not reach the difference that would have guaranteed an easier victory.