Ex-player “Spartak » Victor Pachkaline complained about the lack of enthusiasm among the players of the Moscow team during the first matches of the second round of the KHL playoffs with Metallurg.
The Magnitogorsk club won two matches in the best-of-four series with scores of 4:0 and 1:0.
— It is difficult to comment on this. I remember when the Spartak players stood and listened to the Russian anthem before the match against Severstal at the first stage of the playoffs. And what faces they had! Such energy came from them, it seemed that even I was charged. They came out and beat Severstal. But now I don’t see such an attitude. I do not know what happened. The eyes of Spartak players don’t shine like that.
— Is the game in the background, something with psychology?
— Yes, there must be an atmosphere for the playoff match, everything depends on it.
— A young team, not yet used to cup battles?
– Accept. But here she is young, not young: go out and fight. For you to come to your locker in the locker room after the game and you can’t get undressed, and you’re sweaty… This is what the return should look like.
“But the series is not lost yet.”
“Of course, hope dies last,” Pachkalin said, as quoted by RB Sport.
The third and fourth matches of the confrontation will take place in Moscow on March 21 and 23.
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