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Sergei Zubov PHOTO: KASPARS VOLONTS / DINAMO RIGA
North American coaches have a count that they tend to repeat after each loss. That this game must be forgotten as soon as possible. Time to forget this season’s debut in Riga against Chelyabinsk’s “Traktor” (1: 6) Sergei Zubov and his brigade had three days.
To host Yaroslavl’s “Lokomotiv” on Sunday, against which he had managed to play worthily in the KHL championship start match in Yaroslavl (2: 3). Unfortunately, the answer game in Riga was a continuation of the “Traktor” nightmare. 0: 4 in the first third. What to do for those with good memory?
A friend of mine – Armands, who has good knowledge in hockey, after 1: 6, said in a scary way: “That only Zubov does not come to Riga like Ozolins. From the sidelines, it looks like there is a good line-up, but the game somehow doesn’t go away.
I have not been a pessimist since birth, I hoped that our “Dinamo” would no longer play as terrible in “Arena Riga” as against Chelyabinsk, but the match with “Lokomotiv” was even more terrible. Knowing that “Dinamo” is a very mediocre minority (7 lost goals in 19 minorities), it would be only logical that hockey players try not to be on the rejected bench. Less than two minutes have been played (1:40), when Gints Meija refuses to hold the opponent. Formally, the majority of Yaroslavl is passed, as the Lokomotiv player scores a second after Gints returns to the pitch. 5:03, when the result is already 0: 2, Gunārs Skvorcovs is rejected for stumbling. The Czech legionnaire “Dinamo” holds Matthew Mahovsky at the goal for 50 seconds, when after Bush’s diagonal pass Ivanov is found in front of the goal – 0: 3.
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