Head coach of Kazan “Ak Bars” Zinetula Bilyaletdinov said the result of the third game of the series of the second round of the KHL playoffs with the “Admiral” of Vladivostok was decided by a pitch.
On Monday, Ak Bars lost to Admiral in extra time with the score 0:1 in the Gagarin Cup away match. The series score became 2-1 in favor of Kazan. The fourth game will take place on Wednesday in Vladivostok.
– The match was not easy for us or for the opponent. You see, the case is this – a throw decided the outcome of the game. I agree that the goalkeepers played well. And Timur (Bilyalov) played very well, and the opponent’s goalkeeper.
Yes, we haven’t used our luck in the majority. But the opponent also played very well, he defended quite well and did not give us the opportunity to score, – Bilyaletdinov quotes the Ak Bars website.
– In the third period, “Admiral” began to create more chances, “Ak Bars” “got addicted”. Didn’t have enough strength?
Why wasn’t that enough? We played well in overtime, I think. There were quite a few good moments, but you can’t deny the fact that the opponent played well.
On Monday, another match of the second round of the KHL playoffs will take place, in which Torpedo Nizhny Novgorod and SKA St. Petersburg will play. Watch the match live on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites. Departure is at 7:15 p.m. Moscow time.
Source : MatchTV
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