Before “Ak Barca » Artem Lukoyanov believes that the hockey players of the Kazan club in the second match of the semi-finals of the Gagarin Cup with “Avant-garde “There was not enough movement and desire, that was the reason for the team’s defeat.
Avangard won with a score of 3:2, after two periods Omsk led with a score of 3:0.
– It turned out to be a completely different game compared to the first game. Then we had a good start, good movement, the opponent started the game like we do today – slowly. Everything we talked about turned out to be different. The most important thing is that they lost in movement, in desire, in everything. It’s hard to say why, we’ll find that within the team. And so – it seems that we lost today, but there are also positive emotions.
It’s not just about goals, we didn’t stop playing, we tried, showed how to start games and generally play with such an opponent to defeat them. We have to do everything we did today for a period and a half. Of course losing is always bad, but let’s leave it all positive and carry it over to the next game.
All teams after defeats say “it’s okay, we’ll win the next game”, and I’ll say it too – we’ll be more angry, we’ll better understand what to expect from the opponent”, the Ak Bars press service quoted Lukoyanov as saying.
In two starting meetings in Kazan the teams exchanged wins, the series score was 1–1. The third game will take place in Omsk on April 5.
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