Odds stacked against CSKA in Sevilla clash

MOSCOW: Russian champions CSKA Moscow will go into Wednesday's Champions League last 16 round home clash with Spanish high-flyers Sevilla seriously lacking match practise.

The Red Army side has just returned to snow-covered Moscow from Belek in Turkey, where it set up a training camp as the Russian league is still on a winter break and will not kick off before March.

Last week, at Belek, CSKA suffered a 3-0 defeat in a friendly match with Ukrainian top-flight side Dnepropetrovsk, but the Moscow side's manager, Leonid Slutsky, said he was not worried about the result.