{"id":508111,"date":"2021-11-10T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8080\/on-thursday-maccabi-and-cska-clash-in-moscow\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T10:00:00","slug":"on-thursday-maccabi-and-cska-clash-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/on-thursday-maccabi-and-cska-clash-in-moscow\/","title":{"rendered":"On Thursday: Maccabi and CSKA clash in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"> \tMaccabi Playtika Tel Aviv dropped a league game in Holon on Monday, but the yellows are still in the midst of a great run when it comes to the EuroLeague, maintaining a streak of five straight wins.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \tOn Thursday (19:00 local, 12 pm ET), the Israeli champs will face CSKA Moscow away and try to get a victory in a place where they triumphed only two times since 2004. The Russians carry a negative momentum with three consecutive losses in the EuroLeague.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t&#8220;We are playing a very good team that is always among the candidates to make the final four,&#8221; said Giannis Sfairopoulos, ahead of the game. &#8220;We will have to be very focused, stick to the game plan, and fight in every moment of the game because CSKA will punish us for any loss of concentration.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"> \t&#8220;For us, it is important to keep playing well and winning. This is what builds a team&#8217;s character&#8221;, Derrick Williams added. &#8220;Regardless of its current form, CSKA is one of the best teams in Europe, and I&#8217;m sure we&#8217;re in for a big battle.&#8221;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Yellows will look for a sixth straight EuroLeague win against one of their biggest rivals. Sfairopoulos: &#8220;CSKA will punish us for every loss of concentration&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"custom_author":[],"class_list":["post-508111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=508111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/508111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=508111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=508111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=508111"},{"taxonomy":"custom_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maccabi.co.il\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/custom_author?post=508111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}