Before “Avant-garde » Ivan Igumnov after the sixth match of the series with Lokomotiv, he said that his team did not become nervous after conceding two goals.
Avangard in the sixth match of the second round of the Gagarin Cup defeated Lokomotiv away (3:2). At the start of the second half, Lokomotiv won 2:0.
— How do you like the match?
– Gorgeous. We won.
– But at 0:2 we were worried about you.
– We weren’t worried. There was no panic. We believed in victory.
— Is it a shame to miss a goal two seconds before the break?
– Yes, it was unpleasant in the locker room. But nothing serious happened.
— At what point did Avangard start playing with more confidence under the new old system that was in place under Bob Hartley?
— I will say this: with a team like Lokomotiv, you have to play with more patience. This is why the new program is useful.
— Doesn’t it bother you that your opponent shoots a lot more towards your goal?
– We don’t mind. GOOD. But we try to eliminate unnecessary throws.
— What is the most important thing from game seven?
– Rest well now. Forget all these matches and tune in to the next match. We have to do our job.
— Is it true that after the change of coach – Mikhail Kravets left, Sergei Zvyagin became the main one – there were fewer emotions on the Avangard bench? Now you act more calmly and rationally.
— We probably started giving more emotions not to the bench, but to the ice. I don’t know what it looks like from the outside and what you see. But we are attached to games, we give them all our strength. In general, the atmosphere in our team is good. We are only positive. There are no negative emotions. When we lack, we only support ourselves. Let’s move forward and believe in our partners.
— There are not many examples in KHL history where a team saved a series with a score of 0-2, having lost two home games at the start. Are you ready to make history?
“We’re not focused on that at the moment.” The story is these matches which have already passed. We just want to reach the next match and win it, ”reports the correspondent of , according to Igumnov’s words.
The score in the best-of-four series was tied (3-3). The seventh match will take place on Saturday in Omsk.
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