“The sight is lost”: the SKA coach explained the team’s failure by psychology and weak implementation

Head coach of St. Petersburg SKA Andrei Razin summed up the match with Dynamo Minsk (1: 4). In the post-match press conference, the coach called the result deplorable, but pointed to fatal problems with the realization of moments and the psychological decline of players after previous successes.

According to the head coach, despite the defeat, the game looked better than the previous meeting with Dynamo Moscow. The army received positional attacks and sharp counterattacks, but failed the final stage. Especially critical was the failure in the implementation of the five-on-three format, where the team had two minutes of advantage.

“The law of hockey is: you don’t score, you lose,” Razin concluded.

Asked about 38 shots on goal and just one abandoned puck, the coach replied succinctly: "The sight is lost." He also did not rule out that his role was played by a successful game of goalkeeper rivals Fukale. The absence in the composition of Sergey Plotnikov specialist explained the usual rotation.

Razin assessed his first 10 matches at the head of the St. Petersburg team harshly - "unfortunately" (four victories in total). In his opinion, the decline after the defeat of Spartacus (7:1) lies in psychology. After bright victories, players are on an emotional uplift and may not even sleep, and after failures are very worried.

“Here is more of our job – the guys to liberate,” said the coach.