CSKA head coach Dmitry Igdisamov has voiced a good feeling about what his team can achieve this season. In his view, the squad is capable of fighting for the championship when the prizes are handed out. He immediately tempered that optimism with a reminder that hard stretches are guaranteed to come. The decisive question, as he framed it, is how the team carries itself the moment results and circumstances turn difficult. His point was that titles are won not by the strong phases but by the response to the weak ones. The coach placed responsibility squarely on his players to hold their standards when the pressure arrives. The message reads as both a public declaration of ambition and a warning against complacency before the season's real tests begin.