The ex-coach of Ufa explained why there were more goals in the RPL WORLD from outside the penalty area

Former Ufa head coach Igor Kolyvanov explained to RT why in the WORLD of the Russian Premier League (RPL) they began to score from a long distance.

In the first round of the RPL, seven goals were scored from outside the penalty area at once.

– Many domestic teams have recently been betting on a scheme with three central defenders. Therefore, it is not so easy to bring the ball to the penalty area. Very rarely they began to score after flank passes, since all zones are saturated. Increased density forces players to come up with non-standard moves. Let’s hope that the players will now hit even more often from a distance, – said Kolyvanov.

But the former Dynamo Moscow coach Andrey Kobelev does not agree that such performance after strikes from a distance is the trend of the new RPL season.

– Only one round has passed, and therefore it is too early to draw any conclusions. Let’s wait until at least three or four passes, and then we will judge. Probably, we just saw some local surge. It’s just that an abnormally many shots hit the target, ”Kobelev told RT.

The second round of the WORLD RPL starts on Friday with the Zenit-Krylya Sovetov match in St. Petersburg. The live broadcast on the MATCH PREMIER channel will begin at 19:55 Moscow time.

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