Head Coach”Metallurgist » Ilya Vorobiev explained the loss in the match with “Vityaz by the fact that the team near Moscow, like many others in the KHL, plays strictly on defense.
On Sunday, Metallurg lost to Vityaz in the KHL Fonbet Championship away game in a 1:2 shootout.
– Tight and even game, lots of wrestling and joints, – correspondent quotes Vorobyov as saying. – It’s rare to win in shootouts this year. Bad with that.
– Why was the goalkeeper replaced before the shooting?
– Pasquale played several times on penalties and we lost. Something had to be changed. So they changed it and… the result is known. Still lost.
– Metallurg is famous for its combination game. But today, your team failed. Why?
– Now many KHL teams are falling faster than they are advancing. They play defensively. We are not given a place and a space in a foreign zone. That’s why we dropped everything. Opponents started playing against us differently compared to last year.
Metallurg is fourth in the Eastern Conference table with 70 points.
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Source : MatchTV
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