The first one is lumpy: SKA-Khabarovsk lost the opening match of the second part of the season to Baltika

Match score – 0:2 in favor of Kaliningrad, SKA has zero shots on target

Kaliningrad “Baltika” finished the first part of the championship in first place, and this is no coincidence. The Baltics play completely uninteresting, but absolutely effective football, not without reason the team is headed by Sergey Ignashevich. Viscous, inconvenient for opponents, mathematically verified football. To miss such a team first is like death. “Baltika” starts to play by the score, literally “eating up” the time and the opponent.

Unfortunately, what they feared happened. After a corner kick in the fifth minute, Tamerlan Musaev put his team ahead with a powerful shot into the far corner. Experienced Yevgeny Pomazan could probably take such a ball, but he did not. The army team had the opportunity to win back, but the goalkeeper coped with the impact of Timur Zhamaletdinov. Then began the operation to destroy the SKA.

There was a hope for the second half that the Khabarovsk coaching staff would find a loophole in the home team’s game scheme and be able to equalize. It didn’t work out. On the contrary, already in stoppage time, Baltika went on the counterattack and put an end to this game. Sergey Pryakhin scored. The result of the match is 2:0 in favor of Baltika Kaliningrad, and this is their 12th victory in the tournament.

– I would like to congratulate our guys on the victory, because they did a lot of work without the ball. I don’t know a single player who likes to play without the ball, so I want to especially congratulate them today. In preparation for the match, we talked about a lot – about how well Khabarovsk is positionally attacking, and that it is very important to play well today without the ball. You have to understand very well that in order to win, you need not only to score, but at least not to concede, to work for the team. I would also like to congratulate our fans on the victory, I think they have been waiting for the resumption of the championship, and we are very happy that they will go home in a good mood today. As for the physical condition of the team, only the spring will show. Both we and Khabarovsk saw that today it was very hard to get into the game, because the temperature changed sharply compared to what we had at the training camp, and the field was quite viscous, and the playing tone was not yet optimal. I can’t rate it right now. Only spring will show the state, but I’m sure everything is fine with the guys. As for reaching the Premier League at all costs, the task for me and the guys is to win every match. Today I am satisfied with the defense, it rarely happens that the ball did not enter the penalty area, and if it did, our guys and the goalkeeper took it off, – said Sergey Ignashevich, head coach of FC Baltika.

According to the head coach of SKA Khabarovsk – zero shots on target in this match – this is his wrong choice of attack structure in the first half.

– I’ll talk about us – we made a little mistake … I made a little mistake in the structure of the attack. This concerns the first half, and maybe there was a certain nervousness among the players, but this in no way relieves them of responsibility. They made a lot of losses, based on each of their levels. So we didn’t manage to play the way we can. The final score is therefore 0:2. It was also influenced by the fact that the match was postponed after we planned the preparation. Nothing has changed, Baltika played in what style, so it plays. We will never deviate from our style of play – we will always play this football. Well, the tactics have changed, I said that I chose the wrong structure in the first half in attack, based on our strengths and weaknesses. Then, in the course of the game, they changed and saw more of those moments that we would like, however, what did not work out in the second half was the final actions. That is, we began to advance the ball more, but at certain moments we made a lot of losses in simple situations. That’s just what we didn’t have enough to put more pressure on the gates of Baltika, ”emphasized Roman Sharonov, head coach of FC SKA-Khabarovsk.

The Khabarovsk army team will play the next match on Sunday, March 12, in St. Petersburg with Dynamo Makhachkala.

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