- And why did you not play in the second half like in the first, did Khimki attack and even seize the initiative? - took advantage of those moments.
Dmitry, answered without hesitation. But in vain.
- So, probably, there ... More, probably, depended on the result, than on something.
There was a slight pause. Everyone tried to understand the answer.
- Why don’t you score? - tried to find out from the striker before he left.
Here Dmitry was already thinking. And again in vain:
- I do not know.
Everyone fell silent again, this time almost in a panic. It was evident that the interlocutor was not inclined to philosophize.
- Anatoly Byshovets says that some kind of curse hangs over you, - one of the journalists was found.
- What? - the forward was surprised.
“Is there a curse or not?” - the reporter did not give up.
“Not a curse, but an evil rock,” his colleagues specified. - Byshovets spoke about evil rock.
- Well, evil rock ...
“What other curse?” - Sychev was still surprised. - Ask your coach. He probably knows better.
There was an awkward pause again. Everyone felt guilty in Sychev’s scoring drought.
- And what do you lack to score? Confidence?
Here Dmitry nevertheless flared up.
- Why confidence ?! he exclaimed. - Luck is not enough. Luck at crucial moments. All one to one: the judge raised the flag, the goalkeeper did not throw. Some little is missing.
The dialogue was drawing to a close. Someone became interested in judicial decisions.
- Did the arbiter correctly fix the violations?
- I do not know.
- And as it seemed?
- But in any way. I did not see.
And yet, at the end of a meaningful conversation, Sychev formulated the reason for such different times.
- They wanted to keep the score. And, maybe, he was sitting secretly in his head.
What was sitting? Is it not a little?
Alexey Shevchenko