Head coach of Lokomotiv Igor Nikitin said that the Fonbet KHL championship match against CSKA turned out to be difficult for the Yaroslavl team, the army team won the match.
On Thursday, Lokomotiv lost to CSKA with a score of 0:3.
— We didn’t score a goal and lost the match, that’s it in a nutshell. It was a difficult match, we understood that we would have to break down the defense, there wasn’t enough passion. Defeat on the case.
— It seemed that Lokomotiv played the match too cautiously.
– You’re right, we had to do a little more than what happened. Let’s see why this happened.
— There was a short break before this match, did it affect the team’s playing tone?
— The break only lasted two days, it did not affect the team’s performance in any way, we rested.
— Matches against CSKA often turn out to be ineffective, what is the reason?
— Two organized teams played, that’s why it happens.
— Why was Martin Gernat absent?
— Gernat was injured in training, but today he joined the team and everything is going well for him.
– Booth appeared in the majority, was that planned?
– I wouldn’t say that. We have a lot of young people in our team, of course they will play. Where, if not in matches with CSKA, can young people grow?
— In the last matches between Lokomotiv and CSKA, the team that scores first wins.
— An organized team, having taken the lead, obtains an advantage, but I don’t see any trend here. “We do not set a goal to score in the first minutes, we set a goal to win,” reports the correspondent, according to Nikitin’s words.
Lokomotiv with 29 points occupies second place in the Western Conference standings, CSKA (23) is fifth.
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