Interim head coach of the hockey club “Siberia” Sergei Krivokrasov criticized the team’s goalkeepers after the defeat against Kazan “Ak Barsa” in the Fonbet championship match KHL .
The meeting took place on Tuesday in Novosibirsk and ended with a score of 4:0 in favor of the Kazan team. From the first minutes, goalkeeper Denis Kostin started the match for the Siberians. After missing two goals, he was replaced by Anton Khudobin, who also scored twice.
“I think today we seemed to have a good attitude, but missing the first two goals in three shots…I don’t know how you can put together a team here.” Good goalkeepers should sit out at least two matches and keep a clean sheet, giving the team at least one chance. I can’t tell you how to start a game when every throw is missing. I don’t want to blame the goalkeepers, goalkeeper Kostin, but they are obliged anyway, no matter how the team plays, they have to play, take out the matches, themselves, alone. Two matches per season should be constant. Good goalkeepers do that. We made a serious trip, today is the fifth match in ten days. Today the guard needed help. But when the team sees that the goalkeeper misses quick and ridiculous goals… It is difficult to build a team and, in general, the guys themselves understand that it will be difficult to return to the match against such a team . You must remove the goalkeeper in such a situation.
I had a conversation with Kostin before the match with Vityaz. I told him: “You are a very important figure and a lot depends on you, and at the moment you should become number one, because such a situation happened with Krasotkin. You have a real chance to show yourself, to prove yourself. Because each of the goalkeepers is waiting for this opportunity. At that point he gave up and I said, “here’s your chance, you have to prove to yourself and everyone that you can play every game and deserve this chance.” “We will now know what we can count on. In this situation, we need that person who can catch the puck. We hope Krasotkin comes out for the next game.
For the moment, we are still in the race for the playoffs. If they had already crossed their hands, that would be a different matter. But at the moment we continue to fight, to hold on by all means,” Krivokrasov said at the press conference. website KHL.
“Sibir” with 53 points occupies 10th place in the East. Novosibirsk is separated from the playoff zone by 6 points.
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Source : MatchTV
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