Head coach of Kazan “Zenith” Alexey Verbov said on that the final series of the Russian Championship with Dynamo Moscow turned out to be difficult, despite the final score 3-0.
On Tuesday, Moscow Zenit defeated Dynamo in the third match of the final with a score of 3-1 (25:20, 25:22, 17:25, 25:20) and became 12-time champion of Russia. In the previous season, the teams also met in the final, which ended with a victory for the Kazan club 3-0.
— Another dry victory over Dynamo in the final of the Russian Championship. Are there any differences from last year’s final?
— It’s difficult to get used to such emotions. A lot of work has been done in a year. Last year we were ready to do anything to win the championship, but this year we had to keep it. Dynamo played the role of “hungry lions” who wanted to get their own back. I felt the difference. Yes, now everyone who looks at the score will say it was simple and easy, but no. It was hard, you had to constantly find motivation and drive. I hope these guys love playing volleyball and know how to win, they are great players and a great team! I am proud to be at Zenit as a coach. I think there will be more to come. We will try not to give up on our momentum and we will only move forward.
We have done a lot of hard work. To be honest, now I’m a bit empty inside, I don’t even have any emotions. We understood that we can and must already [побеждать]This put pressure on the team and we didn’t play freely as we would like.
We don’t take into account the fact that the team has not suffered any losses in the playoffs. Our main goal is to give our best in every set and for every ball. We certainly don’t count the number of matches we win or lose. The adversary had nowhere to retreat. “Dynamo” is a big and great team, these are the players of the Russian national team. We understood what awaited us. I am very happy that we succeeded first with ourselves, and then with our opponents,” Verbov said on .
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