The coach of the Russian national team Yuri Nikiforov shared his opinion about the game of the 8th round of the WORLD RPL “Spartak” – “Zenith”.

“Zenith” on Sunday on the road won a strong-willed victory over “Spartak” with a score of 2:1. After eight rounds, the team of Sergei Semak scored 20 points and takes first place in the RPL table, Spartak (16 points) is fifth.

– How do you like the game of “Spartak” with “Zenith” – did not it seem that these are teams of different levels?

– I did not watch the game, Nikolay Pisarev was there, and I was at the Wings of the Soviets – CSKA match. When the plane landed, I only had time to look at the review. Now here I am at work, I want to watch the match in its entirety. But according to what I saw, the level of the players is different, as I said initially, Zenit is stronger.

– “Zenit is a champion? Can we finish everything?

What does it mean to finish? The championship is long. Zenit will lose their points, Spartak needs to gain their own. Zenit may make a mistake and lose points with Akhmat, but the team powerfully plays important matches with competitors.

– After leaving Khimki, Nikolai Pisarev returned to the national team full-time. How will you distribute responsibilities?

– Nikolai Pisarev combined two positions, was the coach of Khimki and had to return to the Russian national team for training. Now I flew to the Wings game, and Nikolai watched the match between Spartak and Zenit. Now we can watch more matches, it turns out the same thing that Pisarev and Onopko did. While it turns out how it will be next, I can’t say, ”RB Sport quotes Nikiforov as saying.