CSKA lost to Barcelona in Euroleague basketball – Rossiyskaya Gazeta

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CSKA Moscow lost on the road to one of the leaders of the Euroleague basketball regular championship, the Spanish “Barcelona” – 73:81.

The first quarter turned out to be abnormally ineffective for both teams. CSKA and Barça scored only 26 points for two (13:13). In the second 10-minute, the hosts reached their usual capacity, but the army team remained at the level of the previous quarter. By the long break, Dimitris Itoudis’s charges had only 27 points.

And then came the incredible third quarter. Itoudis finally found the right combinations, putting Iffe Lundberg on the bench first of all, and this had an effect. In their own half, the army team erected a reinforced concrete defense, and the German forward Johannes Voigtmann took over the functions of the hero in the attack. His four “threes” in a row, plus two three-pointers from Tornike Shengelia, allowed CSKA not only to catch up with Barça, but also to come out ahead. But in the first half, the army team had only two hits from beyond the three-point arc. All this splendor was conducted by Alexey Shved.

And this fabulous quarter for CSKA ended with an equally fabulous long-range hit by Marius Grigonis in the last seconds. In this one 10-minute minute, the guests scored 33 points, more than in the previous two.

Alas, CSKA failed to bring the match to victory. In the final quarter, the teams seemed to have changed places. Now the owners have succeeded in almost everything, while the Muscovites have done nothing. The last chance to catch on in the last seconds was missed by Voigtman, who missed the “three” with an excellent pass from Alexei Shved with the score 71:77. And another opportunity to count on something more “Barca” did not give the opponent.

Note that two other Russian clubs won today. Petersburg “Zenith” coped with the German “Alba” at home – 75:66, and Kazan UNICS defeated another leader of the “regular season”, Italian “Milan” – 97:71.

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