24.05.2022
Our team went to St. Petersburg to continue the final battle with Zenit in the best-of-7 series...
On half-way

PRE-GAME BREAKDOWN

Having won both home games at the Megasport, the red-blues took a day off and had the only training session in Krylatskoye before leaving for St. Petersburg.

Together with the main team, two CSKA-2 players, Vladimir Karpenko and Kirill Popov, made a trip.

PRE-GAME QUOTES

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

We are preparing very seriously. We’ve finished two quarters but now we are moving out to. St.Petersburg. I said that in the beginning and I haven’t changed my mind: Zenit is a very good team, well-coached, so we need to put in the effort from the first minutes. We know they are going to react in front of their fans by playing aggressively, on the level of the foul so we need to respond to this aggressivity, to play smart against their pressure defense and to be ready to execute our plan.

"RELATIVITY" CONNECTIONS

Zenit newcomers Egor VyaltsevSergey Monya and Vitaly Fridzon spent long period of their careers in CSKA - two, three and five years, respectively.

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.

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

Alexey Shved was a teammate of 7 Zenit's players at Khimki Moscow Region. He played with Monya (2015-21), Vyaltsev (2015-21), Fridzon (2007), Zubkov (2017-19), Sergey Karasev (2019-21), Jordan Mickey (2019-21) and Igor Volkhin (2017-20).

Jonas Jerebko will also face his ex-teammates from Khimki - Monya (2019-21), Vyaltsev (2019-21), Karasev (2019-21), Mickey (2019-21) and Volkhin (2019-20).

Maksim Karvanen played for CSKA-2 in the 2018-19 season.

PAST MATCHUPS

Wins-losses: 21-8 (5-0 in EuroLeague, 18-0 against Triumph Lyubertsy)

Games of the 2021-22 season:

12-Oct-2021. EuroLeague. Regular season. CSKA – Zenit: 77-67 (+10)
17-Jan-2022. VTB United League. Regular season. Zenit - CSKA: 81-68 (-13)
14-Mar-2022. VTB United League. Regular season. CSKA – Zenit: 79-78 (+1)
20-May-2022. VTB United League. Finals. CSKA – Zenit: 83-59 (+24)
22-May-2022. VTB United League. Finals. CSKA – Zenit: 82-73 (+9)

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

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