The head coach “Lokomotiv” Mikhail Galaktionov after the first quarter-final match of the Russian Cup RPL FONBET against “Baltic” says that Artem Dzyuba And Timur Suleymanov can work together on offense.
The meeting took place in Kaliningrad and ended with a score of 2:2. Suleymanov scored a double, Dzyuba missed the match.
— After the match in Samara, we talked, our pride was hurt. Because they themselves missed the victory. We don’t blame anyone, we talk about it openly. There was an inner anger: to go out and prove that you had to re-educate yourself. And the way the first half went, we did it. The only thing we lacked was the sharpness of the attack and the pressure in the penalty area. But after the break we started to lose a lot of balls in simple situations. Somewhere there is a lost bullet, somewhere there is a defeat, somewhere there is a lost fight…
And Baltika is a fighting team, it was impossible to let the opponent come back into the match. Strategically it is a very important match, it is important that we make it in our favor, and the second match after the break will be completely different.
— If we talk about the first half, can we say that Lokomotiv can attack quite well even without Dzyuba?
“I wouldn’t ask the question that way.” Artem is a key player in our team, the leader of the team. Both in the locker room and on the pitch. He brings a lot to the table. Timur is a different kind of footballer and he did his job well. But he also needs to improve his game. They are versatile footballers. They can act together. “We are happy to have a competent and experienced leader and player who can replace him and show that he is worthy of competing for entry into the main team,” reports correspondent, according to Galaktionov’s words.
The teams will play the second leg in Moscow from March 12-14. The winner of the confrontation over the sum of two matches will advance to the semi-finals of the RPL Path, the loser will go to the second stage of the quarter-finals of the Regional Path.
Watch live broadcasts of the FONBET Russian Cup matches on the and MATCH PREMIER TV channels, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
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