Former CSKA striker Valery Masalitin said that the head coach of the Russian national team Valery Karpin There is not enough time to teach national team players to play high-speed football.
The meeting between the national teams of Russia and Kenya, held on Monday in Antalya, Turkey, ended with a score of 2:2.
— Can we say that the result of the match against Kenya was unexpected, given that most experts predicted a landslide victory for our team?
— If we talk about the game, this result was not unexpected. We saw that the Kenyans are a trained team who chose their counter-attacking style of play and took advantage of our defense’s mistakes. The teams from the African continent are physically strong, robust, fast and jumpy. This is what we saw. Not a single serve from the flank reached our players, because the opponent won everything at the top. Also, Kenyans are very stubborn and did not allow us to create. They imposed their game on us, and we played it almost until the end of the match. It was only when we started making substitutions that the game speeded up and things got worse. The result was to score the second goal. If we had played at this pace throughout the match there would have been no problem.
— Do you have the feeling that matches with rivals like Kenya are simply not interesting for players of the Russian national team?
– But why? We started the match well, we pressed and scored immediately. But then, for some reason, they stopped playing this football. Eventually, they showed up again. We can play, but we just can’t keep up with this pace. We have very few matches at this pace in the RPL.
— Are there any complaints regarding the goals against Barinov in the first case and Dzhikia in the second?
— Jikia can’t get into shape yet. His adversaries fled from him. We almost never saw this when Georgy was in uniform. At the moment when we failed because of him, you won’t give up if you want. As for Barinov, there is a technical error. He received the ball badly and was covered.
—In other words, our team has something to work on.
– Certainly. Karpin is not a magician. He can’t teach children to play football at such a speed in two or three days. He will give everything he can,” Euro-Futbol.Ru quotes Masalitin.
On October 12, the Russian team defeated the Cameroon team with a score of 1:0 in a friendly match in Moscow.
Euro‑Futbol.Ru
Source : MatchTV
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