Former striker SKA Vasily Kamenev expressed the opinion that the St. Petersburg team has a disciplinary problem at the start of the current season of the Fonbet KHL championship.
Currently, SKA occupies 10th place in the Western Conference standings with 12 points.
— SKA has disciplinary problems, it is the scourge of the team. We have to save the match, the score is 2:3, there is time left, but the army team is sent off and finds itself three against five. The opponent scores, there is no more chance.
You can’t do that, you have to play more carefully. Also, the penalty was stupid and unnecessary: I put my stick in the wrong place and I had two minutes. Maybe they are overwhelmed by their desire for something great. But you have to have a cool head.
— At the end of the match against Dynamo, the SKA players were tired, perhaps because not everyone was allowed onto the field.
— When you are tired, your concentration decreases. Desire is one thing, but if it is not supported by physical preparation, mistakes are made. I remember last season: SKA had excellent physique, they ran the fastest. The players had plenty of time to make the right decisions.
Maybe the long tour knocked me down – after all, the fifth game is far away. This is not so much functionally difficult as morally difficult. When we don’t play at home, we get exhausted. In Lédovoye, the army team is “fed” by the supporters. I know for myself that it is important. Even if you don’t have enough strength, you go out on your field, you hear the roar from the stands, and emotions appear, fatigue goes away, ”Kamenev said, as quoted by RB Sport.
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