The two coaches on the press conference were in a pretty different mood. Ettore Messina seemed to be pleased with the game. Didier Gadou was nervous and unhappy with his team.
Ettore Messina
CSKA head coach
- I am satisfied with the game my team played tonight. We run the floor well, showed some good passing and we stayed fresh until the very end of the game. I tried to rotate players and some of the young guys did a very good job in the game. The match was devoted to the memory of Alexander Gomelski who had birthday on the January, 18 and that made the players to be even more focused on the game than usual.
Didier Gadou
Pau Ortez head coach
- We can not afford ourselves to play the game in Moscow like this. The players did not show the right level of the game for more than 20 minutes. They did not do what I wanted them to, did not want to prove anything and that was the reason for me to shout on them. It is going to be a very hard task for us right now to qualify to the Top 16 but we will do our best to show we are the team that can win the games.
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