Football
Tashuev: “The victory over Orenburg is the merit of my assistant, he distributed a lamb to the poor”
The head coach of Grozny’s Akhmat, Sergei Tashuev, said on Match TV that he was dissatisfied with the team’s performance in the first half of the match against Orenburg, and also linked the victory in the game with his assistant’s gift to the poor.
The meeting of the 18th round of the MIR Russian Premier League (RPL) was held in Grozny and ended with a score of 1:0.
— If we take the result of the match, I didn’t like the first half a little, we started to play subtly. We warned, but I know from experience that we thought: “Now we’ll play easily.” It got in the way.
The second half we played more coherently and scored a goal. There was pressure, they found a mistake. In general, they didn’t let the opponent do anything. We played correctly tactically in pressing. Today the main thing was the result, we didn’t think about the beauty of football, although the game itself was a fight.
The tension was highest. The guys were great, they survived. I told them that today’s victory is the merit of my assistant Ahmed. He distributed a lamb to the poor (laughs). This is not a joke, it really happened. I prayed. So this helped us. I’m talking about those things that we sometimes think about. We are happy with the victory, three points are the most important thing. The Akhmat football club should be much higher, we believe in it.
— Substitution for Cardoso at half-time.
“He played a little wrong tactically. The game should be more effective, and he played rather subtly, so they decided to strengthen the attacking position so that the player would put more strain on the defenders, preventing them from leaving the defense. Talal came out and played correctly, reliably, what needed to be done,” Tashuev said on Match TV.
Akhmat, which won its second victory in the current championship, is in 15th place in the standings with 13 points.
In the first round after the winter break, Akhmat will host Rubin Kazan.
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