Midfielder “Rubin” Oleg Ivanov in an interview with , he talked about the causes of frequent injuries in the team, and also noted that Kazan players need time to achieve consistent results.
On September 11, Rubin defeated Veles on the road in the MELBET First League Round 9 match. The match ended with the score 2:1 in favor of the guests. The winning goal was scored in the final minutes.
– Rubin was greatly updated in the offseason – they built a powerful team, but in the end the team stalls at the start.
– This is a normal situation. In fact, we play from the sheet. We only had a month to prepare. Guys came all the way – some at the end, some at the beginning.
Some people had microtraumas, because the work of Leonid Viktorovich (Slutsky) changed – he gave a rather difficult training program. For example, in my entire career, I had three muscle injuries, two of them to Rubin.
– On Sunday, Vitaly Lisakovich and Alexei Gritsaenko could not play for you, they saved Joel Fameye, before Alexander Martynovich flew away. What is the reason? The quality of the land, the long flights?
– There is no single factor. I think it’s all connected. Just look step by step: we fly to Krasnoyarsk, we play in the arena, the terrain is more or less, like here, then the flight, change of time zones, Ulyanovsk, where the grass is knee-deep and it looks like the field burned from the heat, then Nizhnekamsk, where also synthetics, but better, so we come here. It’s a busy schedule.
– Rubin lost a lot of points at the start of the season. Slutsky is constantly tense, very nervous. Is it passed on to the team?
– I think that Leonid Viktorovich tense since childhood. From the moment the cat climbed.
It is clear that I want to win, but I am absolutely calm about the current situation. Everyone understands what is happening. Now we are building a new team. It is impossible to complete it in such a short time. Yes, the players are of high quality, but we need time.
– When will we see the game the team is striving for?
– I think that in the next rounds everything will be fine.
In the next round, on September 18, Kazan will host Volgar. At the end of May 2022, 30-year-old Ivanov, who previously played for Ufa, joined “Insist on” (a one-year contract with a one-year extension option) and managed to play five games.
Source : MatchTV
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