Defender of Dynamo Moscow Andrei Pribylsky after the defeat of Dynamo Minsk in the fifth match of the playoff series of the first round, Fonbet from the KHL Championship said that it is necessary to learn to find an approach to the opposing minority even in the absence of an attacker Nikita Gusev .
The meeting in Moscow ended with the Belarusian team winning in overtime with a score of 2:1. Gusev missed this match due to illness.
— We tried to play in an organized and strict manner, but Minsk is also a great team. There was pressure. Ultimately, it’s a double-edged game. To a fault, one might say. I think in the next match we will have to be better prepared.
— How much did you miss Nikita Gusev today?
– Of course, that’s not enough. He is a key player. I think we have to somehow mobilize ourselves and, without him, find some keys to access the opponent’s minority.
— After the first period, it seemed that you had the situation under control, and in the second the initiative was already on the side of the guests… Why did everything happen in such waves in this meeting?
– It’s the playoffs. How do you know when one team starts to put pressure, the second defends, and somehow it’s already business as usual. In the first overtime we insisted, but we scored quickly. Maybe they could add more pressure. But no luck.
— I was surprised by your statement that we should be better prepared for the next match. Did you have any issues with this before playing this game?
– No. I think a team should always be in a better mood after a defeat. It doesn’t matter who the opponent is. It’s important to play better.
— Does this leave the impression that the opponent has many North American legionnaires for whom the playoffs are their element?
– I don’t know. I will not say. It’s our element, it seems to me. It is clear that there are trained players there. But we also have people who have won cups. Both teams have good hockey players. They just won today, we have to win the next game.
— The Belarusian team will benefit from crazy support in Minsk. It will be hard to win.
– Certainly. But we have to somehow deal with it, ”the correspondent of reports Pribylsky’s words.
The score in the series up to four victories is 3:2 in favor of Dynamo Moscow. The teams will play their next match on March 12 in Minsk.
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