Head coach of Spartak Guillermo Abascal said the team lacked aggression in the first match of the quarterfinals of the RPL FONBET Russian Cup with “Orenburg” .
The match in Orenburg ended with a score of 1:0. The scorer of the winning goal was Nikolai Titkov, who converted the penalty in the 10th minute.
– Good evening (started Abaskal in Russian – note from ). Today we did not achieve the desired result. This match could have started better from the first minutes, we lacked aggression, then the penalty arrived. Of course, this could not but affect the game, and then our player received a red card. We found ourselves in such a situation before, for example in the match against Lokomotiv, so the team continued to work and run.
This is not the result we were looking for. We wanted to achieve victory in order to steer the confrontation in the right direction. The next match won’t take place until March, it will be a completely different match. Today we are once again convinced that we cannot relax even for a second in the game and that we must also be aware of the moments we experience.
— Some players did not arrive for the match. Can you clarify what is wrong with them?
— We had a difficult trip to Kaliningrad: after the match against Baltika, someone had a cold, someone was overworked and was slightly injured. I hope everyone will be better for the next match. We really need guys, maybe today we didn’t have enough, ”reports the correspondent of , reporting Abaskal’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.
Source : MatchTV
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