Spartak striker Alexander Burmistrov, after defeating Metallurg in the fourth match of the Gagarin Cup quarterfinal series with Metallurg, said that with each match there would be more and more power struggles between hockey players.
On Tuesday, Spartak beat Metallurg at home with a score of 1:0. Ansel Galimov scored the only goal. After that, the series score was tied 2-2. The next match of the confrontation will take place in Magnitogorsk on March 28.
— Are you surprised that it is difficult to find pucks now, given that Metallurg and Spartak are attacking teams?
— Now, all teams have learned to play defensively. It’s the playoffs, a game down to one goal.
— Weren’t you offended when you had a good chance in the second half?
– Of course it was sad, disappointing and sad not to score. It’s good that they scored in the third.
How do you manage to maintain such concentration? In the regular season, Spartak did not have this, in the series with Severstal there was also a swing.
— We talk a lot during the playoffs, we watch a lot of videos. The team understands what they are fighting for. We want to win every game.
– How do you feel? You haven’t had much match practice lately.
“I hope everything gets better and better with each match.”
— Is there anything else that could surprise Metallurg in the next matches? Spartak has won once in Magnitogorsk in 30 years…
“It seems to me that we have nothing that can surprise us.” We will just play our own hockey. We will build on our game.
— Can we say that Spartak has already adapted to Metallurg? Today you almost didn’t allow moving attacks.
— The teams now constantly watch each other on video. We know how they play, they know how we play. With each match, the intensity will be higher and there will be more power struggles.
— Spartak lost two matches without you, but with you in the lineup, they won two.
– Coincidence. It happened.
— Don’t they call you a “lifesaver” in the locker room?
“No, it doesn’t exist,” the correspondent reports, according to Burmistrov’s words.
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