Head coach “Vityaz” Pavel Dessiatkov after the FONBET KHL championship match with Moscow “Spartacus” said that the team from the Moscow region does not know how to devote itself to the game for all 60 minutes, so the opponent won and is higher in the standings.
On Saturday, Vityaz lost to Spartak in overtime with a score of 4:5 in the regular season away match. Desyatkov’s team had a three-goal lead three minutes before the end of the match.
— For this reason, Vityaz is in ninth place (in the table) and Spartak is second. Because we don’t know how to play for 60 minutes. We certainly have either one player or a group of hockey players who will put their personal stats ahead of their team’s. This distinguishes top-tier teams from teams below mid-table. It’s a team responsibility. We played 55 minutes, the opponents had few chances, then they lost the match.
Sometimes there is overconfidence, which is the worst. Not uncertainty, but self-confidence, bordering on impunity and carelessness. What happens next depends on the team and the athletes, the spirit within.
— Did any specific people lose?
— The whole team lost. Including the coaching staff. I’m not trying to find anyone to blame. Missed goals are the result of individual or tactical errors, or cool actions of the opponent. Today, it’s mostly the former, with the exception of the penultimate puck. We did everything not to miss it, but we missed it.
— Isn’t it scary that this isn’t the first game like this this season?
— A question of psychology, the psychology of the growth of the team and of each player. And also the question of the ability to make the right decision and take responsibility for the team, ”the correspondent reports, reporting Desyatkov’s words.
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