Three months to fix

Sunday game is long awaited by our team: Lokomotiv-Kuban, the only team to beat CSKA this season, finally came to Moscow.

Let us remind that the club from Krasnodar made the red-blues feel the taste of defeat in their second game of official season. CSKA made serious conclusions after that: the game was lost on Oct 12, three and a half months ago, and CSKA did not lost a game since then, currently possessing 30-game winning streak.

“We are playing back-to-back tough games,” Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach, said. “Lokomotiv is an excellent team, smartly built during the preseason. Playing against Krasnodar team you have to control the boards and did not let the opponents to run the floor because they are really strong in the open court.”

The Army Men will play without Sonny Weems and Victor Khryapa again. Lokomotiv has to play without disqualified Malcolm Delaney. Mantas Kalnietis who missed the first part of the season with injury is probable for the game.

Past match-ups

Wins/losses: 45-6,
In Moscow: 26-2, in Rostov: 9-1, in Krasnodar: 10-3
CSKA biggest margin of victory – 10.04.2004. Moscow. Russian Cup quarterfinals: 116-67 (+49)
Lokomotiv biggest margin of victory – 10.05.2014. VTB United League quarterfinals: 66-81 (-15)
Last game in Krasnodar – 12.10.2014. VTB United League regular season: 81-73 (-8)
Last game in Moscow – 26.05.2014. VTB United League quarterfinals: 84-65 (+19)

Short Dossier

Lokomotiv-Kuban Krasnodar
Founded: 2003 (Lokomotiv-Rostov)
Clolors: red, green, white
Home Arena: Basket Hall (7,500)
President: Andrey Vedishchev
Head Coach: Sergey Bazarevich
Website: www.lokobasket.com
Accomplishments: Eurocup winner (2013), VTB United League runner-up (2013), BEKO PBL bronze medal winner (2011-12), Eurochallenge runner-up (2011), FIBA-Europe Cup runner-up (2005)