13th again: SKA-Khabarovsk lost away to Yaroslavl Shinnik

The outcome of the confrontation was decided by the only goal in the second half

Shinnik is not an easy team, especially when playing at home. Khabarovsk SKA fans had hopes that their team, won the first victory after the break on the football field, he will be able to stay on the wave in Yaroslavl, which, by the way, also celebrated the City Day, like Khabarovsk, and will continue to score points. Unfortunately, the hopes were in vain. 33rd round and 12th defeat this season, which again rolled back the “army men” to 13th place in the championship. One consolation is that SKA is 8 points away from the relegation zone, which means that we will most likely remain in the First League. Well, anyway.

In the game, “Shinnik” did not demonstrate anything new, SKA, however, also. All the same desire to own the ball and the lack of any idea that allows you to score on the last line of attack. The match could well have ended in a draw, if not for the mistake of Denis Fomin at the 84th minute of the match, who tried to kick the ball, but gave the projectile exactly at the feet of Artem Kulishev. He without hesitation hooted into the near nine and scored.

A draw could still take place – at the end of the fight there was a chance to equalize, Nikita Miroshnichenko shot on goal, it was dangerous, but the ball went a few centimeters from the post.

“I think we won at least a draw. Least. The first half from some point of view, you can see that in some episodes the game was equal. “Shinnik” opened, the second closed altogether, and we were in a lot of positional attack. We understood that the transitional phase, that is, counterattacks, would be dangerous. One of them led to a goal. And we did not realize our chances, plus we did not create sharpness in the end. Unfortunately, this is a problem for us. We knew how Shinnik played, we used two structures in the first half, in the second half I slightly changed the alignment of the players due to substitutions. But in football, the most difficult thing is a positional attack, and therefore, what I said was not enough for us. We owned the territory, there were a lot of things and simple losses … we owned the territory, but this is football, ”said Roman Sharonov, head coach of FC SKA-Khabarovsk.

The next match “SKA-Khabarovsk” will play at home on June 3, Tula “Arsenal”, also going through difficult times, should visit the Far East. In the meantime, SKA-Khabarovsk falls to 13th place out of 18 possible and is preparing to finish this season.

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