MOSCOW, May 6. CSKA head coach Dimitris Itoudis said that the team dedicated the victory over Krasnodar Lokomotiv-Kuban in the first match of the VTB United League semi-final series to the injured player Vladimir Ivlev. CSKA, without his participation, won a home victory over the Krasnodar team with a score of 93:90. «We want to dedicate this victory to Vova Ivlev, an excellent teammate, a person, a hard worker. An injury happened to him yesterday at the warm-up, and we wish him a speedy recovery and return into action,» Itoudis was quoted by the official website of the army team. The score in the semi-final series up to three victories became 1-0 in favor of CSKA. The second match will take place on May 7 in Moscow. «We are ahead 1-0, the team and the fans deserve congratulations. Our advantage at some point reached 15 points, we played well in defense and attack, especially in the second quarter and the beginning of the third. But then , as it happens, we relaxed, began to make sloppy decisions,» the coach added.
