Head Coach of Ak Bars Anvar Gatiyatulin After the regular season match, FONBET of the KHL championship against Sochi said that the home series showed progress in the game of the Kazan team.
Sunday “Ak Bars” beat Sochi at home with a score of 5:2.
– Good game, good win. It was important for us to have a successful home series. Even at the team presentation in Almetyevsk, we were very impressed by the way we were received. Almost 100,000 spectators, three home games, three sold-out games. We ask the guys to play from the first to the last second, because we appreciate the support of our fans. Let’s analyze the points, study what needs to be corrected and get ready to go.
— Why did you decide to change goalkeepers, given that Miftakhov is on a dry streak?
– We are walking in tandem. We have two strong goalkeepers. Today we decided that Timur Bilyalov will play.
— Have the last two matches shown what you expected from Ak Bars?
– Yes, I was constantly saying that we were reviewing segments of how we wanted to play. There are more. But there is still work to be done. And so the guys also have to understand, even if we compare it with the away series, where we can play more actively and where we have to understand where we can’t counterattack. The home series showed that the guys heard us and rebuilt. Even if there is a lot of work to be done.
— Why didn’t Nikita Evseev go on the ice once today?
“We have everything in stock, everyone is preparing.” Well, we made a decision to keep the match in these particular combinations. We are counting on Evseev as a full-fledged player. It’s just difficult to play four pairs. You don’t feel the rhythm of the game. That’s why we play seven defenders,” a correspondent quoted Gatiyatulin as saying.
Ak Bars extended its winning streak in the KHL to three games, the team scored eight points and is in seventh place in the Eastern Conference standings. In the next match, Ak Bars will face Lada Tolyatti on September 25.
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