Former coach of Krasnodar, Grozny Akhmat and Yekaterinburg Ural Igor Shalimov aired MATCH PREMIER said that the Moscow “Spartacus” the center of defense must be strengthened.
Last season, the Red-Whites took third place in the RPL. The title was won by Zenit, the second was CSKA.
– Do you think that the preparations for the battle for the championship are underway and that this battle will take place?
I don’t feel it, frankly. We will have to look at Zenit – Wendel will leave, but they will manage, they have taken another Brazilian (Du Queiroz). In the first game, we didn’t know what he was.
We can say that Spartak had a successful season, because after 10th place they took third, third in goals scored and conceded. On the other hand, after the winter, they were six points behind Zenit, seven points ahead of CSKA, and as a result, they took third place. The spring was extremely unhappy. We have such a fun championship, such a long break, after which you won’t recognize the team. Who knows how they will start overwintering.
A complex style of play that Abascal began to put in the spring. A lot of incomprehensibility in terms of how to enter (with a transfer), what type of player is needed – a defensive midfielder, a striker, a central defender? Besides the central defender, I can’t say who is needed. It is not known where to get it, ”Shalimov said on the air of the program “Off season” on MATCH PREMIER.
The new season of MIR RPL starts from July 21 to 23. In the first round, Spartak will host Orenburg.
Source : MatchTV

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