Former captainSpartak » Andrei Tikhonov on he talked about the work of the team’s head coach Guillermo Abascala noting that players are sometimes afraid to make their own decisions on the field.
On Wednesday, Spartak will play with Krasnodar in the final round of the group stage of the RPL FONBET Russian Cup. “Red and White” took first place in group D ahead of schedule. On Sunday, “Spartak” will play the match of the 14th round of the MIR RPL against “Lokomotiv”. Previously, Abascal’s team lost to Fakel (0:2) and is in seventh place in the standings with 20 points.
— They say Fakel played better, beat Spartak, they used a lot of long passes. Appaev is a fast forward. They were able to change their game thanks to the pitch, Spartak could not. It depends on the coach. If you see that the pitch is ugly, well, make three or four passes on horseback, try to play there. But that didn’t happen.
If Dzhikia had been there, I think there would have been these long passes. There is Babich and Duarte – they were told to play, and they are playing. The goalkeeper doesn’t say a word, even though he could push them forward and clear the ball. There hasn’t been enough reconstruction.
The psychological moment is very important, Spartak is under pressure from journalists and supporters. I don’t put pressure on anyone. Let Abascal work. He stages the game, there are no questions, in some places it goes quite well, I like that.
Let’s look at the composition of the match with Krasnodar. If he makes a second team and says we are preparing for Lokomotiv, we took first place (in the group), it is the coach’s decision whether it will be beneficial or not,” Tikhonov said on broadcast of “Everyone for the Match Program!” on the channel.
According to him, Spartak’s playing patterns now lack flexibility.
— There are some really interesting moments in the game: getting through the defense, playing fast, when the team faces a fast attack. Promes and Bongonda are quality players. Pretty good center field, when the team gets it right it’s great to watch. But after matches like the one against Fakel, it becomes unpleasant. A coach cannot change his game overnight. He doesn’t look – it works, it doesn’t work. It feels like the players are running like robots. Like we told them in training, that’s how they played. As I understand it, they cannot make a decision themselves. When I was playing we could have midfielders and strikers in any situation because we did it in training. Romantsev was not against it,” Tikhonov said.
Watch the live broadcast of the match “Spartak” – “Krasnodar” on the channel on Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. (Moscow time), as well as on the websites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
Source : MatchTV
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