It was fire!

CSKA – Bayern Munich: 77-74 (+3)

CSKA: Lundberg (3), Shengelia (12 + 5 rb + 4 as + 3 to), Milutinov (4 rb), Kurbanov (3), Shved (12 + 3 rb + 3 as + 2 bs) – start; Bolomboy (5 + 3 rb + 3 bs + 5 pf), Ukhov (0), Hackett (10 + 2 as), Voigtmann (12 + 4 rb + 4 pf), Clyburn (17 + 5 rb + 3 st + 3 to), Faried (DNP), Grigonis (3)…

Bayern: Weiler-Babb (2 + 5 rb + 5 as + 2 st + 4 pf), Thomas (17), Lucic (6 + 5 rb), Rubit (9 + 5 rb + 3 as + 2 st + 4 pf), Hilliard (28 + 5 rb + 3 st + 2 bs) – start; Walden (3 + 3 to), Hunter (5 + 6 rb + 3 as + 2 bs), Jaramaz (4), Obst (0), Djedovic (0), Sisko (DNP), Schilling (DNP)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to the team, the guys deserve all the praise. Congratulations to Bayern on a great game. Even at -13, we continued to believe, we knew that we could play differently, just not the way we did in the first half. And we talked a lot about it in the locker room. The opponents started the second half well, but we also had the same in a game with Maccabi, who started from 6-0. The key moment was Dani Hackett's steal, which resulted in an unsportsmanlike foul. He showed that we can play physical. We are generally a physical team, we must match the aggressiveness of our opponents. In the second half, we completely changed our mindset, and this brought us to victory - as well as the big shots by Clyburn, Shved, Shengelia, Bolomboy, and many others. We continue the process and we understand that nothing is granted, you cannot win at the expense of the past. Because we are CSKA, we have to prepare even more, to play even better than we can. I want to thank the fans, they gave us energy, they became part of the equation when they saw how the team fights. We need to achieve consistency in this dedication and at the same time return to the shape the players who have recovered from injuries, be patient with their mistakes.