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BCK vs MOS Dream11: BCK Khimki will play host to CSKA Moscow in EuroLeague round-22 at Khimki Basketball Center on Thursday night (IST). Khimki are down in the standings at 11th heading into this game, but there’s more to the team than what the table indicates. For the roster has the talent and it’s only a case of playing with more consistency. Khimki produced one of the shock of the tournament when they beat Real Madrid 102-94 in round-20 and snapped Spanish giant’s 13-game winning run in the process.
CSKA Moscow, on the other hand, are second on the table and arrive in this game on a four-game winning run. Moscow will be looking for revenge as their last defeat came against BCK Khimki in VTB United League.
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Match details:
Teams: BCK Khimki and CSKA Moscow
Venue: Khimki Basketball Center
Match Timing: January 30, @ 10:30 PM
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BCK Khimki team news: Khimki remain without the services of Timofey Mozgov these days. In fact, he has been out since the start of the season and is not registered with the team.
Khimki also confirmed that Chris Kramer will be assessed ahead of the game due to a foot injury. Andrei Desiatnikov sat out the last game due to an injury and will be a game-time call.
CSKA Moscow team news: CSKA Moscow released a statement that forward Andrey Vorontsevich will miss the several upcoming games due to a twisted ankle he suffered in the warm-up rounds of the Round 21 game against Valencia Basket.
He is now the third player on CSKA’s injury list with Will Clyburn (knee injury) and Janis Strelnieks (leg injury) also out of contention at the moment.
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BCK Khimki: Janis Timma, Jonas Jerebko, Devin Booker, Stefan Jovic / Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Alexey Shved
CSKA Moscow: Nikita Kurbanov, Darrun Hillard, Kyle Hines, Mike James, Johannes Voigtmann
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Likely squads:
BCK Khimki: Andrey Desyatnikov, Jeremy Evans, Devon Booker, Chris Kramer, Egor Vyaltsev, Sergei Monia, Dairis Bertans, Stefan Jovic, Jonas Jerebko, Alexey Shved, Anthony Gill, Janis Timma, Vyacheslav Zaytsev, Sergey Karasev
CSKA Moscow: Nikita Kurbanov, Johannes Voigtmann, Howard Sant-Roos, Daniel Hackett, Joel Bolomboy, Semen Antonov, Ivan Ukhov, Ron Baker, Kosta Koufos, Darrun Hillard, Kyle Hines, Mike James
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Team 1:
PG: Mike James (SP)
SG: A Shved, S Karasev, J Strelnieks
SF: N Kurbanov
PF: Anthony Gill
C: K Hines, J Bolomboy
Team 2:
PG: Mike James
SG: A Shved (SP), S Karasev
SF: N Kurbanov
PF: J Voigtmann, J Jerebko
C: K Hines, J Bolomboy