Attack SKA Zakhar Bardakov told how the St. Petersburg club managed to defeat Yaroslavl “Locomotive “in the Fonbet KHL championship match.
The meeting took place on Monday in St. Petersburg and ended with a score of 3:0 in favor of the army team. SKA, with 79 points in 57 matches, is at the top of the Western Conference standings.
— The score of matches between SKA and Lokomotiv this season is 3:3. Bad team?
— Their style of play is defensive. They detect the opponent’s mistakes and run very well in attack. They are always first in rebounding, almost all their boys are young, with speed. We were lucky that two of them scored and in the third half we played in the same style. We lined up well in our area and didn’t let any chances create, so everything went well. The strongest are lucky.
— The main thing in duels with Lokomotiv is to make them make mistakes?
– Yes yes. I think (the opponent’s) mistakes decided the fate of the match. They only had one chance to score our goal; Aside from scoring pucks, we didn’t create much either. And in other games with Loko it’s the same.
— The SKA has established itself in the West. Did you expect such a result?
“I said at the start of the season that it would be like this. The fact that we’re in seventh or eighth place is what’s happening. For everyone, I understand, it was a shock, but our team watched it normally. We played together and looked for combinations. Now the atmosphere within the team is working. All the boys understand that you cannot serve a number in such a club and that SKA cannot be in eighth place. We have worked, now we see the result.
— Will you slow down before the playoffs? Or do you need to take a break somewhere?
– I do not think so. We go from game to game. Of course, all this requires energy. But every season is like that. We try to win all the time, no matter what position we are in – we have to move forward and take what is ours,” Bardakov quotes RB Sport.
Watch live broadcasts of Fonbet matches of the KHL championship on the channels of the holding, as well as on the sites matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru.
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