Avtomobilist Yekaterinburg head coach Nikolai Zavarukhin said after Vityaz’s defeat in the Moscow Mayor’s Cup that he wants to see improvements in the game of Nick Merkley and Brendan Laipsic.
On Sunday, Avtomobilist lost to Vityaz near Moscow in the match for fifth place in the Moscow Mayor’s Cup with a score of 2:5. Forwards Merkley and Laipsik, who joined the Avtomobilist team this offseason, did not score a single point.
— We made childish mistakes, were sent off and the opponent punished us for it. We had to concentrate from the first minutes of the match.
— Is there any idea who will start the season in goal?
— Let’s see, before this match, there were also questions about the starting goalkeeper, there are minor injuries.
— How would you rate the performance of Merkley and Laipsic?
“It’s too early to comment on anything, the season hasn’t started yet, but to be honest I expect more from them. I hope they add and join the team.
— Doesn’t the fact that the team lost all the matches in the Mayor’s Cup, including those played by the main team, make you pessimistic?
– Of course, it is unpleasant for us to lose, anyway we wanted to play more successfully, but we watched the guys. There were different tasks for each game. Somewhere the game did not work out, this is a warning signal for us. But we have a reserve, I hope that in the first (official) match this reserve will work out,” the correspondent reports, based on Zavarukhin’s words.
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