The head coach “Zenith” Sergey Semak said that the friendly match with the Armenian “Noah” During the training camp in Qatar, he left many questions to the technical staff of the Bleu-Blanc-Bleu.
The match ended with a score of 0:0.
— Sergei Bogdanovich, to what extent, in your opinion, does the score reflect the content of the game?
— In the first half we looked good, there were good chances that had to be taken advantage of. The second half wasn’t very good in terms of quality of play, movement, chances – we created few. A moment was at our door. The second half was an even match, in the first half we had an advantage, in my opinion. All in all, a normal friendly match with a lot of questions for us. We give guys the opportunity to play certain positions; Let’s see what condition they are in. We get the food we need during training camps and we prepare.
— You made most of the substitutions after an hour of play and you replaced Ilzat Akhmetov with Wendel at the break. What is this linked to?
— Because Ilzat played yesterday, spent 30 minutes on the field. He is slowly getting back into shape, he had a micro injury in the first training camp, where he played less than the others. We made a planned substitution to give Ilzat and Wendel the opportunity to play 45 minutes each. That’s enough for them for today.
— During today’s match there was an atypical number of violations – in your opinion, what is connected with this?
— The game is good, quite intense, especially in the first half. As for violations and misconduct, it is difficult to say what this is connected with. Probably with a thirst for combat, the guys fought for every ball. When we didn’t have time, we made mistakes and there were a lot of collisions. But it’s not bad, in my opinion,” Semak said, as quoted by Zenit’s press service.
Zenit’s second training camp in Qatar runs from February 1-14. The Bleus-Blancs-Bleus participate in the Equality Cup, in which they beat the Qataris Al-Duhail (2:0) on Monday. On February 8, Sergei Semak’s team will face the Chinese Shanghai Shenhua as part of the tournament, the match will start at 17:00 (Moscow time). Watch the live broadcast from 4:30 p.m. (Moscow time) on the channel, matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.
Source : MatchTV
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