CSKA football players were unable to block two Zenit players from an average distance, which caused the defeat of the army team, said the head coach of the Moscow team Vladimir Fedotov.

On Saturday, CSKA lost to Zenit with a score of 1:2 in the fifth round of the World of the Russian Premier League (RPL). As part of the “blue-white-blue” scored Malcolm and Gustavo Mantuan.

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– At the end of the first half, we conceded a goal similar to the one at the end of the second. Is it a loss of concentration?

– We do not control the player who is in this kill zone, although we talked about it. Everyone notes the strengths of Zenit – strikes from an average distance, including Malcolm. There were plenty of us there, but we fell down, this area was left unattended. Two missed strikes from an average distance predetermined the outcome of the match. All defeats are offensive, you need to analyze, prepare, there are no victories without defeats.

— Offensive conceded ball at the end, what happened there?

– On the edge they let us go into space, they didn’t have time to move forward and block the shot. There were two defenders, they did it untimely, they gave it a shot, it hit well, so it was a defeat.

In the second half, they made substitutions and turned the game around. Logical goal scored. There was another goal, we looked, we did not find (the position) “offside”. We understand that now there are no offside lines, there is nothing to draw with, but the judges made such a decision, they probably know better. Nevertheless, they fought to the end, there were a number of very good moments in the second half of the half, when they began to break the game, Fedotov told Match TV.

CSKA scored 10 points in five matches and takes third place in the standings, Zenit (11) came out on top.