Head coach of Kazan “Ak Barsa” Zinetula Bilyaletdinov believes that a large number of deletions and errors in defense did not allow his team to play decently against Moscow “Dynamo” .
On Tuesday, Ak Bars in Moscow lost to Dynamo with a score of 1:4 in the Fonbet KHL championship match. The Kazan team suffered their fifth defeat in their last six matches. Ak Bars is fourth in the Eastern Conference standings with 40 points.
— Such a number of suppressions and mistakes that we made on defense did not allow us to play decently.
— Ak Bars has five defeats in six matches. What component of the team’s play worries you the most?
“We communicate constantly, this situation does not suit anyone. There are not enough goals scored and in this match they also made serious mistakes in defense. We need to get out of the situation we find ourselves in.
— You don’t have a single legionnaire in your squad, what’s the reason?
— We always had foreign players, but we decided to take a different path, we wanted to go on stage with our own guys. However, we now need a restock and we will resolve this issue. We have no problem communicating with the legionnaires.
— How difficult is it for you personally to work with such a busy schedule?
— It’s unusual, there were breaks on the Eurotour. You have to get used to this schedule. Many teams have not yet adapted to this schedule and are therefore playing unevenly.
— Damir Zhafyarov did not play in this match. Why did you make this decision and when will you be able to see him on the ice?
— We have decided to field such a lineup for the match, we will see. The game has just ended, so we will think and make a decision. I have a question for Zhafyarov, he is trying to solve it.
— How will you influence the situation with the deletions?
“We move away a lot and we talk about it with the team. It breaks the game, we try to change it.
— How do you evaluate the moment when Dynyak did not score in the half-empty goal, and then Dynamo scored?
“I’m not going to discuss the judge’s decision.” We conceded a goal on the counterattack and made mistakes ourselves while playing defense,” reports the correspondent, according to Bilyaletdinov’s words.
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