Mikhail Kravets: “The most important thing is that Avangard equalized the score in the end anyway”

The mentor explained the absence this time of Fedor Malykhin and noted the importance of the goal, which Omsk equalized the score. That allowed us to get away from pure defeat.

– A tough opponent, very serious, with him we first tried some combinations, then others. Unfortunately, it didn’t work very well. I had to quickly redo the combinations a bit. But, I think, in general, we tried, fought, threw at the goal, somewhere we created chances. There were also many positives in the match, in my opinion. The most important thing is that in the end they managed to even the score. It’s a shame that we were able to survive in the minority and then conceded a ridiculous goal in overtime. Of course, it is very frustrating when we make such mistakes.

Our goalkeeper played very well, I’m happy about that.

Well, I want to say again that we lost in overtime, we managed to bend our line to the end, we managed to equalize the numbers on the scoreboard.

We have a lot of home games ahead of us, we need to analyze everything and prepare for them.

– Ivan Miroshnichenko in the first link of the attack and Tkachev in the third – an experiment?

– No. I have already said that we decided to change the combinations. For each player to explain? I don’t see the point. The team scored little, the team, as many believe, played poorly in the Far East. So we’re trying to find the best combinations to make everyone feel comfortable. Alas, not everything worked out.

– Why didn’t they put Fedor Malykhin into the squad today?

– This is due precisely to his game in the previous trip.

– The fact that they equalized the score in the end – how important was it psychologically? Is this the main positive of the match?

– Of course, on the one hand, it is psychologically very important. And the guys are great for being able to score.

– It seemed that with the current reshuffle, Tkachev was completely lost. Don’t agree?

No, he didn’t get lost. He then acted quite well together with Tolchinsky and Broadhurst. And in the first period, he created some good chances.

We have previously published assessment from Kravets of the match between Avangard and Amur (2:3).