Head coach Temur Alekberov and the Gazprom-UGRA utility player Ivan Signev commented on the first game of the 5th round of the Russian Championship among Super League clubs between Gazprom-UGRA and Sibiryak (2-2).

Temur Alekberov:

– Of course, participation in the Champions League left its mark: there were not enough emotions, quantitatively, we also could not outperform the opponent today: we actually had the same number of players. Therefore, it was difficult to keep the intensity, the leading players lacked some emotions. But in general, we started well and scored 2 goals and still created chances, but at some point the opponent added, he began to abut. We have missed this situation a little. In general, we tried to play very actively, play to win. One aspect of the game is the standard clauses. Today 2 goals from the set-pieces we missed. And the fact that you create more chances is often not a guarantee that you win this game. Therefore, I think that it was necessary to play a little more emotional, to try to play better on the pitch to finish the game until victory.

Ivan Signev:

– Today it was a really difficult match, we could not keep an intense game in attack, so that the ball went quickly, it was necessary to move a lot. And of course, they we didn’t score our moments from the set-pieces, there are a lot of combinations, we haven’t scored for quite some time. And from here such a score.