Former Lokomotiv and Avangard striker Yevgeny Artiukhin in an interview with , he said that he had not seen such a team movement for a long time, as demonstrated by the players of the Yaroslavl club during the KHL playoffs this season.
Lokomotiv leads 3-2 in the Gagarin Cup quarter-final series against Avangard Omsk. The sixth match will take place in Yaroslavl on March 28 and will start at 7:30 p.m. (Moscow time).
— Some call Lokomotiv (a Gagarin Cup contender), but they don’t score many goals. An opponent can crush them through aggression.
– I would say here. Looking at Lokomotiv, I am amazed – I haven’t seen such a move for a long time! They run the three periods, every 60 minutes, like robots. The most important thing is that they play for very short periods. And their pace just doesn’t slow down. The “avant-garde” would simply stand up at times, and their heads would spin. Yes, there may have been a lot of noise around the perimeter. There wasn’t enough spice. But still, when we defend and when we attack, they are two different things. When you play defense, there is a psychological moment of pressure, where you are constantly in the zone, where you are constantly being twisted and turned. Maybe Lokomotiv isn’t making things worse enough. But psychological stress accumulates and affects the opponent,” Artyukhin told .
Read the full version of the interview with Evgeny Artyukhin on the website.
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