Severstal head coach Andrei Razin after the fifth game of the KHL playoff series with CSKA (3:4), he said his team was in a difficult position due to injuries.
Now Severstal’s injured list includes striker Maxim Kolmykov, defenders Makar Khabarov and Andrey Churkin. The Army team leads the best-of-four series in the first round of the Gagarin Cup with a score of 3–2. The sixth match will take place on Sunday in Cherepovets.
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– Don’t you think that the start of the game in Severstal turned out to be bad, because in the fourth game you lost with the score 3:9? Isn’t that a consequence?
I don’t even know how to answer this question. It turns out that we lost two top defenders – from the second and third pair. Adam Lischka didn’t play for us today. In addition, we have another central injured.
But CSKA played the last match of the championship with the same team. And the same composition plays the five games of the series. They have no loss. So I took their composition now, I look: “Damn, at least one of them got sick with rotavirus or something.”
We have problems with the composition. What is the consequence of the last game? We have already forgotten this game. It’s easier to lose 3:9, to miss several goals. It is clear and understandable. Than lose like today (3:4). Such defeats are more difficult to live with.
I joked about a CSKA player who got sick. May everyone be healthy and injury free.
– Maybe it’s the army team that didn’t let you into the game well?
– CSKA didn’t let us play the whole match. But then we started creating chances. We have a young team, while CSKA has experience and psychology at the highest level. Of course, when the score is 1 to 4, when there is nothing to lose, hidden reserves appear. They bring results. It’s a pity that they were absolutely not enough to win, ”said Razin, whose words are reported by the correspondent of .
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