“We decided to let the guys sleep”: Mikhail Pashkin commented on the match of the Khabarovsk “SKA-Neftyanik” over “Sibselmash”

The match ended with a score of 15:3 in favor of the Khabarovsk team

SKA-Neftyanik had very difficult exitduring which the army team suffered their first defeat of the season. Even at the match with Dynamo, it was clear that the team was tired and this is not surprising. After the Russian Cup games, ended with a match with Eniseyafter Super Bowl battles with another super league favorite, SKA entered the championshipalmost never fully recovered.

Nevertheless, the team went undefeated until stumbled in Krasnogorskwhere Muscovites are now based. Final game in Kazan also took a lot of strength, especially since the army team traveled from Moscow to the capital of Tatarstan for a full day – all because of bad weather. Nevertheless, they won. Before the match with Sibselmash, the team was allowed to “breathe”. The result was not long in coming – a victory over Novosibirsk with a score of 15:3.

Nikita Ivanov, Alan Dzhusoev, Alexei Torgonsky, Yuri Shardakov, Tuomas Määttä and Viktor Kalanchin scored at the match. The Khabarovsk team finally “went” standards – only four goals were scored directly from corners in this match. The team showed good speed and team play.

– I will say this: today, first of all, we were unlike ourselves in terms of movement. It was just a game of different speeds, teams that play at different speeds. Speed ​​of movement, speed of thinking. There is nothing to even comment on, hence the result. The fact that SKA-Neftyanik returned after a difficult trip did not affect the game in any way. It feels like we had a reacclimatization and we only came from the plane to the match. And here I also see moments of psychology, and honey agaric was not enough for us. It seems that there was movement with Kuzbass, there was good movement. And here they thought that it would be so, but here the situation is a little different, – noted Alexey Zherebkov, head coach of HC Sibselmash.

Mikhail Pashkin, the mentor of the Khabarovsk SKA, is definitely a sin to complain about the movement of his team today.

– It was not an easy trip, but the logistics were on the road – that’s how the weather happened. We flew in yesterday and, of course, weighed – we need to train, or not, this morning, or last night. But we decided to let the guys sleep. Sleep, rest well and immediately go to the match. And it was clear that the guys had time to rest and today there was a good movement. We didn’t plan to score fast, or not to score. The bet was that we have our own model in defense and throughout the game we adhered to it and, of course, successfully scored right away, and brought this match to victory. As for the fact that the team was criticized for not scoring corners – we changed at night we were working on corners now … but to be honest, yes, we have changed something. We try to find a way out of every situation and today it turned out that we scored four corners and this cannot but rejoice, but we must continue to work on them and score in the next matches. As for why Victor Kamenev and Vasily Granovsky were absent, we gave Granovsky a rest today, to recover, but Kamenev fell ill. So we have two young goalkeepers playing today. Whether Kamenev will have time to recover for the next match, we’ll see. I cannot answer this now. Leo played well today, so I believe in him and don’t worry too much, – said Mikhail Pashkin, head coach of HC SKA-Khabarovsk

The next players to come to Khabarovsk are Kemerovo Kuzbass. The match will be difficult and will be held under the arches of the Erofey arena for next Monday December 19th.

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