Mikhail Kravets: Avangard played especially well in the first and third periods

Thursday, October 13, Avangard defeated Amur at home 4:1. After the match, he was assessed by acting. head coach Mikhail Kravets and noted that the Omsk team managed to win deservedly.

According to the mentor, in this case, for the first time, a new scheme was used in defense. So because of this, there were some flaws.

– Today was a very important game for us, because we lost big in the last match. Meanwhile, at home. I asked the guys to analyze everything in it in order to enter the new game with new emotions, trying to prove that we have a good team.

All the guys completed the installation, especially well played the first and third periods. In the second, there were flaws in the defense, but I think this is because we played like this for the first time – when the defenders pressed the extreme forwards, they didn’t always work out correctly, so the opponent’s counterattacks happened.

In general, I am satisfied with the game, the guys deservedly won and pleased the fans.

As for Yegor Kruzhenkov’s first appearance for the main team, I generally have a huge practice in attracting young players to the team. Moreover, we have created a pyramid – “youth team – VHL team – main team”, where the second link is needed so that people there grow after the MHL and rise further. Other coaches and I looked, thought and chose these players, who really played well last year, and now they play well. Kruzhenkov and Astashevsky immediately showed themselves well from the first training sessions, in the end I had no doubts about putting Kruzhenkov on the game. Today he showed a really good game – I will not overpraise, but he did everything that was asked of him. He earned on himself the removal of an opponent, made two “two-on-one” exits. In the first game he was not at a loss and helped the team a lot.

In the line of goalkeepers, Stanislav Galimov has already appeared in our application, but only for now as a safety net. He had an injury, so he didn’t show up. After it, Stas needs to get into condition, so at first he trained separately, and today he began to train with the team. So he will be an assistant for several games, and on the road he can play some matches in full.

But it still depends on how we play games and whether Vassily Demchenko needs to take a break or not. The goalkeeping coach Sergey Evgenyevich Zvyagin works here, I trust his decisions.

Before that, we already reportedthat in the previous match Avangard lost to Kunlun 0:4.