Maxim Zinoviev: "We always start from the content of the game, and not just from the score"

— We always start from the content of the game, not just from the score. Therefore, in the second half we wanted to increase our advantage due to quick attacks, with which we could create chances at the opponent's goal.

I would also like to note the quality of the field – it is difficult to combine on it, to play fast football. Therefore, having led in the score, we controlled the ball well enough and repeatedly found moments and approaches to someone else's penalty area. I will not say that there was any abundance of them, nevertheless, there were very promising attacks. In some situations we were in a hurry ourselves, in some the very quality of the field prevented us from doing the last qualitative action.

Nevertheless, the girls showed their fighting qualities, which we constantly expect from them, and in general showed themselves above all praise today: they won a lot of single combats, rebounds, took the initiative on the flanks. In fact, thanks to this, an equal game without special scoring chances ended in our favor.

In the second half there was a period when it was necessary to refresh our game and resume the pressure on the defense of Krylia Sovetov, which we exerted in the first half. The players who came on as substitutes successfully coped with this. They were mobile, active and brought the necessary benefits at that moment of the match. Thanks to this, we moved the game away from our own goal and at the end of the match spent a lot of time in someone else's half of the field, and eventually brought the game to its logical conclusion.

For full information about the starting lineups and the events of the meeting, see the match center.