Alexander Zayakin: "A series of injuries and disqualifications affected this game"

— It's a difficult road to Krasnodar for all teams, so there's nothing like that here. Rather, we were affected by a series of injuries and disqualifications for this game. Several key players could not play. It's a difficult moment, but we checked our young players. They asked them to show their character, go out and play in a fighting way. Thank them very much, they are smart.

In general, we played on quick return attacks, we had opportunities in the first half, especially Katya Sergeeva and Dana Petrova. It was necessary to implement them. Unfortunately, they could not, as well as remove the opponent's standard positions, which he took advantage of in the end. Krasnodar has very good "standards", there are beating girls. We were also preparing for this, but…

We will continue to work, develop the girls, prepare them for the first team, so that they come there competitive and prove their worth already in the Super League.

In the remaining games of the season, we plan to watch all the girls, give them more to play in 2010, with an eye on the next year. This work begins here and now, from November-December we are looking at who is ready to play in the new season.

Therefore, in Perm we will give more time to play to girls who have received little game practice this year. It's a home game with Lokomotiv, there has always been and will always be a principled opponent for us, so we will fight to the maximum of our capabilities.

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