Former striker SKA bronze medalist of the 1987 USSR Championship Vasily Kamenev commented on the major victory of the army team against “Amur” in the Fonbet KHL championship match.
On Saturday, SKA won in Khabarovsk with a score of 4:0.
— We played well, with confidence. Galchenyuk scored the first goals, two at a time. He is one of the leaders and must score. Now I understand, well done. It is very important that the army team has already won a victory over Severstal, breaking a series of defeats. I think everything will be fine with SKA now. At some point, the players lost confidence: they created so many chances, but didn’t score. So we can give up. Now everything that SKA has accumulated, including anger, is reflected on its rivals.
— Artemy Pleshkov stopped 39 shots in the match against Amur. New star?
— SKA has a good team of goalkeepers. They trusted the young man, even though there are no playoffs, he proves it. As was the case with goalkeeper Dmitry Nikolaev: SKA did not bet on him, but took and beat Alexander Samonov. This is the time when players must seize their chances, the championship is underway. And in St. Petersburg there is a strong goalkeeping school, I am happy that the youngster defends the SKA goal.
— The army team will play six away matches. Trial?
– Certainly. Flights, matches every other day, time zone changes. There are different methods for making such series. SKA coaches know this better. It’s good that we started the round with a victory. But now there will be a difficult match with the Admiral, who today fought against Dynamo (the Muscovites won 5:4 – Editor’s note) and usually plays poorly at the start. The St. Petersburg team must consolidate the game it currently presents. In principle it was there, but they scored few goals and were often sent off. This needed to be corrected,” quotes RB Sport Kamenev.
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