The format of the Spartakiad handball tournament turned out to be cruel to the players, according to the head coach of the Moscow region team, Alexei Gumyanov.
On Monday, the Samara region team defeated the Moscow region team in overtime with the score of 33:32 in the game for third place Spartakiad. The Moscow region was represented by handball players from Zvenigorod Zvezda.
“Our team fought until the end,” Gumyanov told . – When there was an announcement of the players before the game, the opponent had a world-class sports master, so-and-so sports master. And we have a master of sports candidate, a master of sports candidate. Our bench is short. Interchangeability is the first reason for our defeat. We didn’t have enough strength, our edges stopped scoring. And in principle, we worked on the defense, well done. We didn’t score many of our chances.
– You missed a six-goal lead. Did the skill difference play a role?
– Fatigue of skills and functional fatigue. The brain boils, the head does not think.
– Did the Spartakiad prove to be physically difficult because of the match schedule?
– A ten-day, eight-game marathon is generally cruel to athletes. You would have to choose another format. We haven’t played matches with tour systems in a long time. Of course, we prepared, we tried to use the whole bench throughout the tournament. But only the main players came to important matches anyway. It was possible to make not two subgroups, but three, and then the number of matches would be permanently reduced. It was possible to think of something.
And so, of course, it turned out to be a sports vacation. You turn on , and there’s athletics, volleyball, and other sports. It’s like the Olympics.
Source : MatchTV
