Head Coach of Avtomobilist Nikolai Zavarukhin After the FONBET KHL championship match against Avangard, he said that he had to play defensively against the Omsk club.
Avtomobilist beat Avangard with a score of 3:0.
— We understood that Avangard would play actively, especially at the beginning of the match. We prepared the guys for this. Somewhere it worked, somewhere it didn’t. We planned to work on counterattacks. It’s great that we realized our chances. The team played very well today, we blocked shots well and cleaned the goal. And Vovka (Galkin) played very well, congratulations to him for cracking it. Difficult match. There were many unnecessary suppressions on our part. But the special teams played at the highest level.
— In the last match, you lost to Barys unexpectedly. Did that affect the installation of this game?
— Different games, to be honest. Here we defended more, led counterattacks, scored our own goals. And there they had more possession of the puck and did not convert chances. We did not have enough anger for a difficult goal. These are games with the opposite vector. And as the championship progresses, you have to make the most of every moment. In that game, we hit the belly of the goalie. And now we played more defensively and cleaned up behind the goalie.
— Vladimir Galkin played a phenomenal game, making 37 saves. Did you put him in because you had such a feeling?
— The goalkeeper coach had a plan. He played the last away game with Torpedo, then there was a long break. We believe in him and he helped us a lot today.
— You played a lot today in the minority. Did the same pattern help each time?
— Somewhere the plan collapsed, somewhere Avangard played unconventionally. But the guys played, lying under the puck, even when they were tired, and helped Vova, – the correspondent of reports, reporting Zavarukhin’s words.
Avtomobilist leads the Eastern Conference standings with 9 points.
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