Spartak caretaker coach Alexei Zavarukhin said his team lost to Torpedo in the Fonbet KHL Championship match due to poor majority implementation and inability to hold on to the winning score.
On Saturday, Spartak lost to Torpedo in Nizhny Novgorod – 3:4. The Muscovites made it 3-2 in the 53rd minute, but immediately allowed Nizhny Novgorod to equalize, and missed the decisive goal in the dying seconds of the game.
– A shameful defeat, but nothing terrible has happened yet, – Zavarukhin is quoted by . – Spartak have chances, we will keep fighting to get into the playoffs.
– Which moment of the match played a key role in the defeat?
– The key (timing) was our numerical advantage, there were many chances that Spartak had to convert. Well, the third missed puck knocked us down. Too quickly, “Torpedo” scored in response, we did not capture the winning score. We had to play more easily, and we ran to score one more goal.
Spartak is ninth in the KHL Western Conference standings with 60 points. The Red-Whites are three points behind Dynamo Minsk, who sit in eighth place, closing the playoff zone.
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Source : MatchTV
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