Nikitin on the situation in Khimki: “We probably need to send us instructions from above on how to get away from this”

Khimki defender Alexei Nikitin believes that the unsuccessful performances of the Moscow Region club are due to the fact that the team has long lost confidence.

Khimki is 15th in the WORLD RPL standings. The Red-Blacks’ unbeaten streak in all competitions has reached 15 matches.

“The team lost confidence a long time ago. When you don’t win 14 matches, it disappears after 3-4 games. And here is a crazy combo that leads to this: increasing responsibility with each game and the fear of making a mistake. When you win and you succeed, everything happens automatically. Here you have to control every movement – and it does not work. What to do with it? No idea. I was in such situations in Ufa – long series without victories and being at the bottom of the table. For me this is not new. The output has always been different. Now I don’t know what can help.

I think we’re all trying to do. We train with the same energy as during the victories, we treat football, discipline, and the team the same way. It’s just that now there is no result, but once there was. When you have it, you don’t think about it at all, but now you constantly think about what else to improve, then you start to analyze. You do the same thing, but there is no result. Probably, we just need to send instructions from above on how to get away from this. We would all live on it and be happy, ”Sport24 quotes Nikitin.