“We could not put an end to the game”: Roman Sharonov commented on the draw of SKA-Khabarovsk in the game with Volga

Neither in regular time, nor in extra time, either one or the second team scored goals

AT game with Volga, the fans saw two completely different halves. In the first, the Khabarovsk team undoubtedly dominated, in the second, the Ulyanovsk team seized the initiative. The fight on the field was quite tough. Nobody wanted to give in. This is evidenced by the number of yellow cards – 7 per match.

However, the struggle on the field did not bring tangible results to the hosts or more experienced guests. Khabarovsk let down the implementation of created chances, they were in the first half and in the second, and such that it seemed a goal was inevitable. But the fans did not see the goals scored. The ball flew at the goalkeeper, at the post, above the gate, but did not want to hit the target. The result of the match is a goalless draw.

And if for Khabarovsk football fans such a result is more like a disappointment and two lost points (after all, Volga, although it adds from match to match, continues to close the championship standings), then for the fans of the Ulyanovsk team this is definitely an earned point. Whatever it was, SKA-Khabarovsk continued its unbeaten streak and brought it to 9 matches in a row.

“If you take the game, we had an advantage, the only thing is that we couldn’t put an end to the game. That is, we didn’t convert the chances that we had. As for the low conversion of chances, I always say that football is not an attack “This is attack and defense, all together. Therefore, we are preparing and working to improve the game, regardless of who we play with. If you take the defense, it is clear that there are rough edges that need to be removed, but in general we did not create anything “Only because of our mistakes, there were some criminal approaches, on the whole we managed. I know and heard that Volga is trying to play football, not just to hit, but … I repeat once again that football is not only an attack, but also defense. We are working on everything. As for moving to Khabarovsk, the most important thing here is that we play at home, that the fans come, which we lacked in Kazan. The only thing that we ourselves now need to adapt to these flights, in this way, build microcycle for us to be comrades for every match. We are working on this more now. As for the ninth unbeaten match, we don’t look at the numbers. We prepare for every game no matter what. The same went for the matches we lost. It’s part of the game, but it’s very important to work on the quality of the game as a whole, and we’re working on that. And for me, when a player enters the field, he should not divide – simple matches, difficult ones. This is a game, they are professionals and the players give themselves first of all to the game, and we don’t know what the score will be. We try to play the kind of football that will bring some pleasure to the fans. We always want to play from a position of initiative, but we don’t have a mindset for an early goal or anything else. We always want to take the initiative and play in the opponent’s half of the field, but how this or that match develops is always a different story. Today it happened like this. Unfortunately, we didn’t manage to score at the beginning of the game, although there were moments … but that’s football. I hope the fans liked it. As for the question “a draw, is it one point earned or two points lost”, I don’t like all this. All this is relatively always, every match it can develop in one way or another. Football is good because it is unpredictable. The result is what it is, I pay more attention to the quality of the game of each player and the team as a whole. This is paramount for me. Naturally, we want to achieve a result with this, but here is another point,” he said after the match. Roman Sharonov, head coach of FC SKA-Khabarovsk.

Opponents note that the match turned out to be very difficult.

“Today, it’s very difficult to call a game a game. It was most likely a cutting on the football field. The struggle for the initiative, martial arts, there were a lot of joints, free kicks, transitions due to long passes. There was practically no such, say, organized game. And if you take the first half, then I don’t even remember in which games the opponent created such pressure.Today the opponent was so aggressive that he didn’t allow us to organize, control, when receiving we were attacked and didn’t give us any space at all.For 45 minutes there was such a half, for endurance.Very it was difficult to rebuild, because the game didn’t go well, we lost martial arts.In the second half, when rebuilding, the team was already more or less transformed, they were already trying to play some kind of control, try to go through the flank, and reached the opponent’s penalty area although there were opportunities. The game turned out to be aggressive from both sides. Such a draw could be natural,” he stressed Rinat Aitov, head coach of FC Volga.

Now Khabarovsk team moves to the Far East, where already on Wednesday, October 5, he will play in the local derby with Dynamo-Vladivostok in the 1/32 finals of the Russian Cup. The match will take place in the capital of Primorye at 19:30 Khabarovsk time.

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