Semak believes that the intrigue in the RPL has not died

The championship race in the championship of Russia this season is not over yet, says the head coach of the St. Petersburg “Zenith” Sergei Semak.

On Saturday, the Blue-White-Blues defeated PARI NN at home with a score of 3:0 in the match of the 18th round of the WORLD RPL and broke away from the second-placed Spartak by eight points.

— Nervous game was with the score 1:0. Owned the initiative, created chances. Scored one more goal earlier, the game would have been easier, but a quick ball came to the rescue in the second half. Then it became easier to play. We moved well, created many chances and achieved an absolutely deserved confident victory.

We approached this game correctly, and for the Cup. They looked good in terms of organization, movements, mood. Today’s game is a continuation of the first match, in which some players did not play, they came out today and tried to work from the first to the last minute. We did not allow the opponent to create clear scoring chances at our gates.

Prior to that, Daler (Kuzyaev) scored all penalties. We have enough players who can take a penalty kick. We will think about this issue for the next match. Malcolm has scored heads before, in training, for example. He is jumpy, he scored a good ball.

We know the number of points that you need to score in order to reach the goal. Points will be counted later. Another 12 rounds, this is more than enough matches for the opponent to catch up with us, ”Semak told Match TV.

The head coach of PARI NN Artem Gorlov noted the team’s uncertain actions in attack.

– We conceded a fairly quick goal from a set piece, but at the same time we moved in a disciplined manner. The most important thing is that we did not succeed in counterplay and actions in attack. We played timidly, showed a lot of respect to the opponent. If you do not carry out counterattacks, then discipline in defense does not make sense, ”Gorlov noted.

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