Head coach of Sochi Dmitry Kokorev After CSKA’s defeat in the KHL championship match, Fonbet said the Army team entered the match more motivated.
On Thursday, Sochi lost to CSKA (1:7) in the KHL regular season match. The Southerners’ six-game winning streak was snapped.
– What to comment? We gave a lot of effort and emotion against Spartak, but we were poorly prepared for the match. CSKA came out loaded, we knew that, they were going through a difficult period, we understood that they would fight in every match. Unfortunately, the CSKA team was stronger.
—What’s wrong with Khafizov? He was injured.
“As we could see, there was a blow to the jaw.” He was taken away, I can’t say anything yet. It was clear to him that the injury was serious. Did they take him to the hospital? I don’t know. They took us for examination.
— This is CSKA’s 22nd defeat. Can we say that Sochi has developed a complex against this opponent?
“Maybe something has to do with it too.” We want to change that within the team. But today it turned out that there were a lot of losses and we didn’t save the puck. A very chaotic match, we couldn’t get our hands on the score. This is a good lesson for us today.
— After six consecutive victories, has your self-confidence become self-confidence?
– Don’t think. Now we talked in the locker room. We will prepare for the next match. The goal was to win the third period, but we ended up with a draw. In the third period, we already played good hockey.
— In the second period, we conceded five goals in 10 minutes. What happened?
– Lots of deletions. The opposing team took advantage of it, there were good shots, everything went wrong for them,” reports the correspondent of , reporting Kokorev’s words.
The Red and Blue scored 11 points and are in eighth place in the Western Conference standings, while the Sochi team is in 4th place with 14 points.
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