First test by the champions is a plus

Zenit St.Petersburg – PBC CSKA: 80-85 (+5)

Zenit: Karasev (1 + 4 pf), Heurtel (24 + 3 rb + 7 as + 2 st), Toropov (0), Thomasson (2), Thompkins (2 + 4 rb) – start; Homesley (6 + 4 as), Volkhin (7 + 3 rb), Kulagin (24 + 3 rb + 4 as), Solomon (8 + 6 rb + 4 pf), Wimbush (6 + 4 rb), Monya (0), Fridzon (0)…

CSKA: Ware (16 + 2 st), Ruzhentsev (0), Davidovac (5 + 4 rb), Milutinov (22 + 10 rb), Shved (10 + 9 as + 4 to + 4 pf) – start; Komolov (DNP), Desyatnikov (DNP), Ukhov (2 as), Astapkovich (10 + 3 rb + 3 to), Jean-Charles (3 + 7 rb + 2 as + 3 to), Moore (18), Kurbanov (1)…

Emil Rajkovic, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to the team on the win. This is the first official game against Zenit this season, and we played it away. I think it was interesting. At the end, we should have controlled the game better, but Zenit is a hell of the team, they pushed us to play like this and they made the game even more interesting for the fans. This is just a starts of the season, there is a lot of time before the playoffs, but this is a very important victory for us. I hope we can build on it.