MOSCOW, March 11, Andrey Mikhailov. Assistant head coach of football club «Zenith» Brazilian William de Oliveira said in an interview that he watched the newcomer of Moscow «Spartak» Manfred Ugalde when he played in the Dutch championship for «Twente».
Ugalde moved to Spartak in the winter. The Costa Rican played 84 matches for Twente, scoring 22 goals and providing 13 assists.
“»This is a striker who knows how to score. It’s not for nothing that he scored so many goals in Holland. We also watched him in Twente. He is a player who plays very well in someone else’s penalty area, he has a very good shot,” — said the coach.
Zenit played a draw with Spartak (0:0) on March 2 in the first official match after the winter break. The leader of the “red-whites” Quincy Promes could not take part in the match of the 19th round of the Russian Premier League, and the team’s disqualified head coach Guillermo Abascal flew from St. Petersburg to Moscow on the day of the game and watched the game at the club’s base.
«In our team there is no underestimation at all. We always treat any opponent with respect, we analyze them. The question is that Spartak was well prepared for our system and it was difficult for us in the final stage «I can't say anything about Abascal, because we don't know what's going on inside Spartak. His assistant said that he had already done this before and the team won, so he didn't want to change the preparation. Since the team didn't lose, it turned out well «, noted the agency's interlocutor.
Read the full interview with William de Oliveira on Tuesday at rsport.ria.ru.