Paskual about the confrontation with the “Lokomotiv -Kuban”: “They felt a real disrespect. I complain only after the victory in the series “

The head coach of the Petersburg Zenit, Javier Paskual, ​​after the match with the Krasnodar Lokomotiv -Kuban, said that in the fourth and sixth game the series felt disrespectful attitude to his team.

Zenit won the house on Thursday at Lokomotiv -Kubani (94:75) and won the semifinal series with a score of 4-3. In the final, Petersburgers will meet with CSKA.

– Congratulations to the players on this game and the series as a whole. It was not easy to recover mentally.

This victory does not cancel what was happening in the fourth and sixth matches of the series. We felt a real disrespect due to what happened in those games. For twenty years of a professional career, I have not seen anything like that. I pay attention – I complain only at the moment when we won the series. Now is the time to complain. Before you is a man, he is not a fool of some kind, he understands everything.

We are surprisingly happy and happy with this victory. And recover to the final. We read one book and put it aside. Now open the next. CSKA had more time to restore. It’s good that we start a series of home.

– What do you mean when talking about disrespect?

– I will no longer spread on this topic. I said what I wanted to say.

– What do you say about the next opponent?

– A very difficult confrontation. CSKA did an amazing job. This is a team that never loses its game. But give me at least a day, then we will continue to talk about CSKA.

– Were there increased premium for this match?

– It was not.

– How exhausting did this series turn out?

– After the sixth game, we got on the bus to mineral waters. We drove for six hours, then for four hours flew by plane to St. Petersburg. At 11 in the morning they were here. They practically did not sleep and lost their training day. Loko flew by direct flights, because of this we had a recovery lag, although we are the first sowing number, the correspondent of Match TV reports the words of Paskual.

Earlier, the General Director of Zenit, Alexander Church, told Match TV that according to the Lokomotiv -Kubani Trevl -Plan, the Krasnodar people prefer to get to guest matches through the Stavropol airport. At the same time, the publication of Sport Wick End reported that Lokomotiv -Kuban got to Yekaterinburg for the match of the quarterfinal series of the playoffs of the VTB unified league against Uralmash with a direct flight from the closed airport of Krasnodar. The airport was closed in 2022 due to security reasons, the restriction on flights has repeatedly extended and is valid until now.

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