MOSCOW, July 31, Alexander Sergeev.The head coach of the Orenburg football club, Marcel Lichka, during a press conference after the match of the 3rd round of the Russian Premier League (RPL) with Spartak Moscow, made a reservation, naming the Red-White midfielder Anton Zinkovsky by the name of the midfielder of the London Arsenal and Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Zinchenko. The meeting in Moscow on Sunday ended with the victory of «Spartak» with a score of 4:1. Zinkovsky came on as a substitute in the 75th minute of the game and did not score with any effective actions. «Did you feel the level of the RPL? I said that the FNL is a very difficult championship, the teams are well prepared. But today it was clear that the work of the players in the RPL is taking place on a completely different Zinchenko… that is, we saw Zinkovsky two years ago, and today he came out only in the second half. Our guys, taking the ball, count on a second to handle and think, but you don’t have that in the RPL – you need to think in advance,” Lichka told reporters. According to the head coach of Orenburg, “Spartak” won a well-deserved victory. “The result is rightfully the opponent was better. «When you give time to work with the ball, a team like Spartak will punish you. Dissatisfied with the defense: we got four goals again, and this is very bad,» Lichka said. and the game is a mirror for us. Spartak is always a strong opponent. And this game was supposed to show at what level we are. And she really showed that we still need to work hard to feel good at the RPL level. I tell the guys: you can lose 1:2, 0:1, but you can’t go out and be afraid. Otherwise, we will get 0:5 and go home to Orenburg. Today we received the ball and wanted to make a second touch, a third. But in that second, all the good zones are closed, you just have to play through the flanks. In general, today there is a lot of negativity. If you want to be in the middle of the table, you need to have a good balance between defense and attack, it is not there now,» the coach added.
