Alexei Popov: “The Brazilian’s brains must have frozen”

The captain of the Perm Amkar Alexei Popov explained why his team looked decent in Luzhniki against Spartak, and accused the referee of dismissing the players.

- Spartak owned the advantage, constantly creating moments. There was an idea that you can’t stand it?

- What are you! On the contrary, I am very sorry that they did not realize their moment and did not win. We relaxed a bit, did not manage to squeeze the opponents when they stayed with ten men. After all, the Spartacists lost confidence, they already agreed to a draw.

- But after all, if you were offered a 0-0 result before the game, would you agree?

- Not.

- How is it?

- We go to the field to win. And we don't care who the opponent is.

- Why did Spartak constantly control the ball and attack a lot?

- We, apparently, at first did not believe in ourselves, in our strength. Muscovites played at home, the fans drove them. When the owners have an advantage - this is normal. But we did not shade. Yes, there were mistakes. But they could have won.

- Tell us about the moment when Mozart fired a ball at you.

- There the judge is to blame.

- How so?

- He released the threads of the game. Worked biased, all the whistles were in our direction. Spartacists felt that they were all allowed.

- It seems that Maly had no gross errors.

- There were small ones. The ball goes into silence. Offside is the same. That's why such an episode happened. Of course, Mozart did ugly.

- He, you think, on purpose?

- Of course. He looked at me and threw it. So much so that I did not even have time to dodge.

- Why is he?

- Brazilian. The brains must have frozen. It happens.

- The match turned out to be tough. For example, you had joints with Bystrov, Dziuba.

- Normal male wrestling. There was no rudeness, except for the episode with Mozart.

- What did the coach say during the break?

- I advised you to get rid of the excitement, everything was fine. He said that they would leave their half faster and put pressure.

- The leader of the championship is Moscow. Not surprised?

- Only two rounds passed. What can we talk about here? If Dujmovic scored, then we would also be leaders. And what would it be meant?

- We need to prepare for the Champions League.

- Yes Yes.

Alexey Shevchenko


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