Barys vs Avangard series will be long and interesting - Barys head coach
ASTANA. KAZINFORM - Head coach of Astana's Barys Andrei Nazarov shared his opinion about the recent match between Barys from Astana and Avangard from Omsk which ended in favour of Avangard - 3:4.
- I would like to congratulate the team from Omsk on the victory. The series is tied - 2:2. As I had said before it started the series was going to be long and interesting. I liked the way the game developed, but as I mentioned yesterday we had the mistakes. During the last match our goalie Jan Laco was like the wall in the frame and the fans didn't notice any mistakes. But it could not continue like that for a long and we paid for our mistakes today which resulted in a loss for us. Nevertheless, the game was really interesting. The series continues, - A. Nazarov commented.
- The second and third games went almost without penalties and could be characterized as very disciplined. Today, it differed greatly. What is the reason? Is it fatigue already?
- Like I said, you see the game as a fan and I look at it as a professional head coach. And I can state that we had mistakes in those games and some of them were quite serious. But Jan managed to erase all of them or almost all of them and thus nobody paid attention to that fact. We, however, tried to tell the guys about them and how they should work to prevent them. At some point they realized how they had to play to turn the flow of the game around but appeared to be too late. We were already losing 0:2. Now, we need to learn how not to make those mistakes, because the play-off is not the time for mishaps, - the head coach of the Astana team added.
- Will we see some roster changes or rotations at the next game?
- I think there will be some changes, - A. Nazarov concluded.