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17 January 2022 Monday / 20:00 MSK
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16.01.2022
Our team is on the road again. Next on the schedule is the game vs Zenit on the floor of SIBUR-Arena at St.Petersburg...
Third in seven days

PRE-GAME BREAKDOWN

The Army Team is counting on the same players that won the game vs ASVEL. Will Clyburn continues to recover from a hip injury, Semen Antonov is ill. The team got a day off on Saturday (although some players came to practice individually), and on Sunday they had a basketball practice before leaving to Sheremetyevo.

Zenit is in a difficult situation: due to the illness of several players, the team had to postpone three previous EuroLeague games. Their previous game took place on January 4, when the team lost to Parma on the road playing shorthanded. On Monday, Xavi Pascual will again not have a full roster.

REFEREES

Tomislav Hordov (crew chief, Croatia), Rain Peerandi (Estonia), Stanislav Valeev (Russia)

PRE-GAME QUOTES

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

It’s our third game in seven days, but we have played well, we got the results and we see some progress in our game and it makes us happy. Especially the fact that the team has unity, we found a common word, we communicate better, we fight until the end. Now we have another important game against Zenit which is always a serious and great rival. We gotta go and give it all again.

"RELATIVITY" CONNECTIONS

Andrey Zubkov was a teammate of Nikita Kurbanov in Lokomotiv-Kuban during 2014-15 season.

Alexey Shved was a teammate of Zenit's Sergey Karasev and Jordan Mickey at Khimki Moscow Region last season. Shved and Mickey have also been teammates at Khimki in the 2018-19 season, while Shved and Karasev have also been there in the 2019-20 season.

Shved and Zubkov were teammates at Khimki for two seasons, from 2017 to 2019.

Zenit guard Dmitry Kulagin played for CSKA in the youth categories and professionally from 2015 to 2017. He helped the team win the 2016 EuroLeague title.

Mindaugas Kuzminskas and Nikola Milutinov were teammates at Olympiacos Piraeus for the first part of the 2019-20 season.

PAST MATCHUPS

Wins-losses: 20-7 (5-0 in EuroLeague, 18-0 against Triumph Lyubertsy)

Game of the 2021-22 season:

12-Oct-2021. EuroLeague. Regular season. CSKA – Zenit: 77-67 (+10)

SHORT DOSSIER

Zenit St.Petersburg, Russia

Founded: 2014
Colors: dark-blue, white, light-blue
Homecourt: SIBUR Arena (7,120)
CEO: Alexander Tserkovny
Head coach: Xavi Pascual
Website: basket.fc-zenit.ru

Upcoming tournament games

30 March 2024, Saturday

30 / Sat / 18:00 MSK

31 March 2024, Sunday

31 / Sun / 13:00 MSK
31 / Sun / 15:00 MSK
31 / Sun / 15:30 MSK
31 / Sun / 16:00 MSK

01 April 2024, Monday

01 / Mon
Megasport Arena, Moscow
01 / Mon / 20:00 MSK

03 April 2024, Wednesday

03 / Wed / 18:15 MSK
03 / Wed / 19:30 MSK

04 April 2024, Thursday

04 / Thu / 17:30 MSK