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Zenit St. Petersburg (1-1), who will visit Kaunas next week, unexpectedly lost in the VTB United League match.
A team led by Xavi Pascualio in his field 69:83 (15:25, 29:14, 11:26, 14:18) lost to Nur-Sultan’s Astana (1-0).
Zenit will face Žalgiris in the Euroleague game in Kaunas on Thursday.
The St. Petersburg team did not deal with Jaylen Barford, who scored 24 points in 31 minutes (8/13 doubles, 2/4 shots, 2/3 penalties), rebounded and seized 4 balls, made 5 errors and scored 21 useful. points.
Mindaugas Kuzminskas played for the Zenit team for 19 minutes, scoring 9 points (3/4 double, 0/2 trit., 3/3 penalty) and 8 utility points.
Another Lithuanian from this club, Artūras Gudaitis, played for 12 minutes, scored 3 points (1/2 double, 1/2 penalty), bounced 1 ball and scored 1 utility point.
The latter’s +/- indicator was the worst of the team, even -31. The Kuzminsk indicator was -1.
Astana won 6 times in 24 regular rounds in the United League regular season and remained in the penultimate place – twelfth.
Zenit won 70:69 against UNIKS in the first round of the Euroleague in Kazan.
Zenit: Alexas Poythressas 19 (9/10 dvit.), Jordanas Loydas 14 (1/8 trit.), Mindaugas Kuzminskas 9.
Astana: Jaylen Barford 24 (10/17 pitches), Anthony Hickey 15 (res. 9), Nikolai Bazin and Maxim Marcuk – 11 each.
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