He completed the third match for the metropolitan basketball team as part of VTB United League championship. The capital basketball players hosted visiting CSKA Moscow club.For wards Ilias Papateodoru match with the Army team was a good sparring, because in front of an important series of games in the national championship, and in the VTB League.

Today, the match did not take part in team Rustam Yergali and Dmitry Klimov, who received micro injury in the last match.

From the first seconds of the match our basketball players have imposed a stubborn struggle Euroleague champion and as a result the first desyatiminutka completed with minimal break 21:24 in favor of CSKA.

Second desyatiminutka also started actively by the BC "Astana", but the opponent has already left the floor with an aggressive attitude. After retiring in the gap + 10 points, CSKA retained that advantage until the end of the match.

The meeting ended with the score 76:92 in favor of honors champion of VTB United League.

Most productive"Astana": Usman Kruballi (19 + 12 rebounds), Maxim Marchuk (13), Roderick Odom (10), Ian Miller (8 + 7 assists).CSKA Nikita Kurbanov (26 points), Nando De Colo (18 + 8 assists), James Augustine (12 + 5 rebounds), Dmitry Kulagin (10).

Head coach of "Astana" Ilias Papateodoru:

- We are honored to act against a team like CSKA. They have great players, one of the best coaches in Europe, and certainly they have a good "chemistry". We know that we are a tough game, but we tried from the first minute to maintain a high tempo and be aggressive offensively.

Something we've got, but CSKA began to use a certain variation in the protection to which we were not prepared. I am satisfied with my players, they have shown good basketball. For me, the real surprise today was the performance of Maxim Marchuk, who looked great on the dance floor. We really need the support of the Kazakhstan players.

Dimitris Itoudis, CSKA head coach:

Congratulations to the team victory. We must remember that we recently spend so many days on the road. Just returned from China, flew to Krasnoyarsk and then to Astana. In addition, we played without four key players, including a pair of defenders. Naturally, because of this, in our game there are bad moments and good. However, both the opening match of the VTB League to get useful, we have seen a lot, and now we will prepare for the start of the Euroleague. As I said even before the game in Astana assembled a completely new, good, young team. I want to congratulate the coaches, club management, Valery Tikhonenko. Well, that there is a new league team.

Next match National League will be held on 14-15 October 2016 at 18:00 between BC "Astana" and BC "Caspian". We remind you that the meeting will take place at the Republican cycle track "Sary-Arka". Free admission!