Kazan head coach “Zenith” Alexei Verbov spoke about the reasons for the loss in the semi-finals of the Final Six.
– No matter how badly we wanted to remove channels from favorites, unfortunately it didn’t work. And, of course, I don’t absolve myself of responsibility for what happened. Mentally, we weren’t ready for those games, but from what I understood, that was the main task of the technical staff. In the modern world, it is impossible to go into a vacuum and give up everything. We have become hostages to this hysteria that Zenit is invincible. During this year, we have encountered practically no resistance. So after receiving an excellent opponent in the semi-finals, who had nothing to lose, who took risks and succeeded, and on the contrary, everything fell apart for us – the worst game of the season in terms of figures – we just stopped playing volleyball: we started thinking about things that are incompatible with it. When you are a super-favorite on paper, and everything is against you that day, it puts you in awe. Even experienced craftsmen are not immune to this, – Verbov quotes the words “Championship”.
Volleyball players from Kazan lost in the semi-finals of the Final Six to Lokomotiv Novosibirsk with the score 0:3 (23:25, 23:25, 21:25).
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Source : MatchTV
