“We will reverse the negative trend and play with dignity in the playoffs” – Coach of Torpedo Larionov

The head coach “Torpedo” Igor Larionov after the defeat of “Spartacus” said his team will reverse the negative trend and play well in the playoffs.

On Tuesday, Torpedo lost to Spartak (3:7) in the regular match of the Fonbet KHL championship. Nizhny Novgorod led the match 3:0. It was the fifth consecutive defeat for Torpedo.

– The opponent – with a victory, with a good match and a lot of goals. Our guys can be scolded, to put it mildly. The only positive thing was that they didn’t stop playing, they tried to turn things around, they created chances, but unfortunately if you don’t score, they score against you.

— The tendency is for the team to lead by two or three goals, then concede and allow the opponent to equalize, and finally lose. How to avoid this?

— There is perhaps a tendency towards a lack of experience among defenders. But these small flaws and mistakes made affect the result of the match. We constantly talk about the fact that any mistake has consequences that are then very difficult to stop.

After the score was 3:1, I told the players that the day before there had been a very interesting match between Minnesota and Vancouver. Vancouver led 5-2 after two periods, but in the third period, Minnesota scored five goals in five minutes to make it 8-5. We finished 10:7 – a fun match, lots of goals. This has been said, but unfortunately these words are not always understood. Shavin, with the score 3:1, had a moment – a one-on-one situation in the minority, a key episode. That’s how it works, if you don’t score, they score you and then the collapse begins. Something needs to be done about this. We show the video and analyze it.

With a match like this, losing matches is doubly sad. You saw the match in Saint Petersburg, which was of a very good level. Coming out of there, we understood that we had played not to lose, but to win. It’s the same story today.

After the match we had a chat with the guys. I said it very clearly and gently. Because from love to hatred there is only one step. But limply losing the second period is not what we want to see. There are a few days left before the home series, two regular season games. I think it will reach the guys, they will draw conclusions and we will help them. I have no doubt that we will reverse this trend and play well in the playoffs.

— Clarify the situation with the suspension of Anton Sizov. What is the reason?

— We had 18 players playing today. Ask all your questions about these players. We talk about the match. We ended the situation. Talking about her is disrespectful to those who were on the ice.

— Among your six defenders, four are young; Varlakov and Breus spent most of the season in the MHL. Will you continue to include them in the playoffs if they are stronger than seniors Baui and Marin?

– We’ll come back to this, we have a few days left before the home match against CSKA. I don’t want to compare generations. But when we played with the five Russians, all five of us were 107 years old and we led a great nation: the USSR. And not in such arenas, but abroad, at world championships, etc. Experience is acquired. When you find yourself in a tough situation, like the playoffs, that’s where your growth happens. When a team plays fast, compactly, in attack, it plays very little in defense. This is what we showed with the Russian Five in Detroit. We need Baui and Marin, but only if they are stronger than the young guys. And if it’s not stronger, what’s the point?

— Is it true that Torpedo goes home by bus? And why?

“The cost savings are taking effect,” the correspondent reports, according to Larionov’s words.

Watch live broadcasts of the Fonbet KHL Championship matches on the channel, as well as on the matchtv.ru and sportbox.ru sites.

Source : MatchTV

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