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Ignashevich said that he had nothing to reproach the players of “Baltika” after the defeat in the first round of the RPL
Sergey Ignashevich / Photo: © FC Baltika
The head coach of Baltika Kaliningrad Sergey Ignashevich said that the team was a little unlucky in the match of the first round of the Russian Championship against Sochi, stressing that he had no complaints about the players.
Baltika, which advanced to the RPL at the end of last season, lost on the road to the Sochi club on Sunday 0:2. For the Kaliningrad team, this game in the Russian championship was the first since 1998.
– Congratulations to Sochi on the victory. I don’t have a single complaint about the players, we played with concentration and calmness for the debut in the RPL both in attack and in defense. We could have acted better in the episode with the first goal, but in general we had an even match. We will still score our goals. Today we lacked a bit of luck and skill in the final stage. Satisfied with the whole game. We understood what kind of football Sochi would play. We could squeeze goals scored out of scoring chances.
Roberto Fernandez did not play for two weeks, at the end he got tired. Until the end, they did not understand whether he could play. We understand his level, he played a good match, especially the first half. Angelo Henriquez arrived five days ago, hasn’t trained for three weeks. He will get more time for the Cup, – Match TV reports the words of Ignashevich.
He also noted that the team “gave” easy goals to the opponent, stating that “when attacking and defending, the team had no big problems.”
Sochi head coach Dmitry Khokhlov said that the team scored goals in a timely manner.
We scored a pretty quick goal. When it got a bit hard, Baltika seized the initiative, we scored the second goal, the goals came to us just in time.
– Who managed to replace Noboa today?
– We did not try to replace him, we tried not to deviate from our game. To what extent this happened, it is necessary to analyze it with a cold head, review the match, then understand. Chris is an important player for our team, but those guys who took the field played no worse, ”Khokhlov said on Match TV.
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