Attack SKA Sergei Andronov who played last season for “Locomotive “, in an interview with , he said that the praise given to the young players of the Yaroslavl club before the Gagarin Cup final did not benefit them.
“Metallurgist “In the 2024 Gagarin Cup final series, Lokomotiv won with a score of 4-0. On Thursday, SKA announced the signing of a two-year agreement with Andronov. The 34-year-old has played for Lokomotiv Yaroslavl for the past two seasons. Andronov is an Olympic champion, Olympic silver medalist, two-time World Championship bronze medalist and two-time Gagarin Cup winner with CSKA.
— Your arrival at Lokomotiv culminated in the Gagarin Cup final. But what went wrong in the Magnitogorsk series?
“We have done a lot of work over these two years. And reaching the final was the logical outcome of what the team, players and coaching staff did.
I agree when they say that 10 days before the final we lost the rhythm. But, as I see it now, the main problem was that the series with Magnitogorsk immediately went bad and we could not rebuild.
– How did they surprise you?
– Nothing, to be honest. But Metallurg had a very difficult series ahead of us, fighting until the seventh game with Avtomobilist. For them, it was a serious test, in which, in my opinion, they matured before the final, ready for a difficult and severe fight.
But for Lokomotiv, it was the opposite; we experienced the series with Traktor in four matches. And this has not strengthened us, but weakened us. Additionally, there was a long break, but that also had adverse consequences. There were many young people in the lineup who heard the praise directed at them that Yaroslavl had reached the final for the first time in 15 years and become favorites. And everyone was talking about it in town. Of course, it was no use.
The screws have loosened a little, and the composure and concentration we had after the series with Avangard has improved. There were also seven games there, and we entered the series with Traktor as mobilized as possible. But everything went very well.
I can’t say we had any surprises from Magnitogorsk in the final. But they scored their chances, even if it was one or two chances per game. And that was enough for the victory, as we failed to score our chances. That’s how it happened,” Andronov told .
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