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Moscow CSKA stopped in the semifinals of the basketball Euroleague
The basketball players of the Moscow CSKA lost the Turkish Anadola Ephesus in the Euroleague semifinals, almost turning the course of a nightmare match.
The meeting, held on May 28 in Cologne, ended with the victory of the Turkish team with a score of 89:86 (25:15, 24:22, 22:18, 18:31). In the course of the third quarter, the army team conceded with a difference of 21 points and managed to reduce the backlog to a minimum, but they were not enough for more.
The most productive player in the meeting was the light forward of CSKA Will Klaibern, who scored 26 points. Defender "Anadol Ephesus" Vasily Mitsich brought his team 25 points.
“With“ Minus 16 ”, we still believed that we could recoup. In basketball, with such a difference, everything can happen if we make adjustments. We changed something, found the best way to return - we played a lot of“ small ”composition and continued to find good open shots. We got and basketball - this is a game of jerks, and the initiative could be completed. It ended .
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- Turkish Airlines Euroleague (@euroleague) May 28, 2021
An Instant Classic. @ANADOLUEFESSK HOLDS OFF CSKA in A #F4GLORY SEMIS Thriller pic.twitter.com/atjfd1nrvn
In another semifinals, the Italian Milan with a score of 82:84 lost to the Spanish Barcelona and became the opponent of CSKA in the match for third place, which was scheduled for May 30.
The main trophy of the Euroleague on the same day in the final will be played by Anadol Ephesus and Barcelona.
Recall that CSKA is an eight -time winner of the Euroleague and for the ninth time in a row reached the Final Four. The army team stated the powers of the current winner of the tournament, they won it in the 2018/19 season, and the next season ended ahead of schedule due to the pandemic of coronavirus.