Zenit — CSKA, 04 September 2021

Zenit St.Petersburg – CSKA: 100-73 (-27)

Zenit: Loyd (12 + 3 rb + 8 as), Poythress (22 + 4 rb + 2 st), Ponitka (7 + 4 rb), Mickey (15 + 5 rb), Napier (10 + 3 rb + 8 as + 2 st) – start; Zaharov (2 as), Karasev (5), Volkhin (2), Kulagin (4 as), Baron (13 + 2 as), Pushkov (0), Kuzminskas (3 + 3 rb + 3 as + 2 st), Frankamp (5), Gudaitis (6 + 5 rb)…

CSKA: Hackett (3 rb + 2 as), Shengelia (3 + 3 rb), Milutinov (10 + 6 rb), Kurbanov (2 + 3 rb), Shved (4 + 4 as) – start; Lundberg (12 + 2 as), Bolomboy (9 + 4 rb), Khomenko (2), Ukhov (2 + 2 as), Ivlev (5), Antonov (3 rb + 2 as), Clyburn (11 + 2 as), Lopatin (3), Grigonis (10 + 4 to)…

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to Zenit on a well-deserved victory in the tournament, today they dominated from the first to the last minute. We have just started to play serious games in this preseason and today we learned a lesson from which we will draw conclusions. You can, of course, talk about numbers, note the superiority of the opponent in assists, but today we attacked so badly that the assists were nowhere to come from. In any case, it’s not a matter of numbers, but of hustle. Zenit outhustled us today. And we need to take off from this.