Advance “Torpedo” Igor Larionov said that the support of fans during the away match against Dynamo Moscow greatly helped the people of Nizhny Novgorod.
On Saturday, Torpedo defeated Dynamo with a score of 7:1 in the Fonbet KHL championship match. Larionov scored two goals.
“We didn’t expect such a score, but it’s not very important.” The main thing is victory.
— Your coach (Igor Larionov Sr., the attacker’s father — Editor’s note) says that you should not humiliate your opponents. Did you decide not to finish off Dynamo in the final period?
— We are always told: no matter what the score is now, we have to play as if the score was 0:0. We didn’t manage to score in the third period, but we wanted to.
— Torpedo has had fantastic support from the fans…
— Yes, I heard the fans during the anthem, it moved me, almost to tears. Sometimes it even felt like we were playing at home.
— You celebrated one of the goals in the style of your father, by raising your hands in the air.
— They were ordinary emotions, I didn’t think much about them. Maybe in the future I will organize my own celebration, ”the correspondent of reports Larionov’s words.
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Source : MatchTV
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