Defender of Moscow CSKA Nikita Nesterov said that the team was not under pressure by the gap with Yaroslavl Lokomotiv in the first round of the playoffs of the Fonbet KHL championship, and noted that the army team had nothing to lose in the fifth game.
On Wednesday, CSKA lost at home to Lokomotiv in the fourth match of the first round of the Gagarin Cup. The railway workers increased their lead in the series to four victories: 3-1. The fifth match will take place in Yaroslavl on March 8.
— CSKA had many chances to score – the majority, a pileup at the end. What wasn’t enough to break through the opposing goalkeeper?
– You can answer in a banal way. Maybe my luck has changed. We created some good chances, but we didn’t score. We’re going to work, it’s hard to win with just one goal. We continue to work.
— It seemed that CSKA had too many simple decisions on attack. Didn’t you think it was necessary to act more cunningly against Isaev?
— There are coaches, they will tell us. I think we’ll fix everything.
– This is a difficult situation for CSKA – three defeats in a row, today there are many unrealized opportunities. Will a break help you recover?
— We are calmly preparing for the next match, nothing is putting pressure on us. We have nothing to lose, we must win the next meeting. We only think about her. We don’t think any further.
– You have been in this situation before – you lost 1-3 to Metallurg in the Gagarin Cup final several seasons ago. What lessons do you learn from this time? How can we turn the situation around?
“We have to go out and fight.” Play your game, cover the goalie more, bury the goals with meat. These are the playoffs,” reports the correspondent, according to Nesterov’s words.
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Source : MatchTV
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