MOSCOW, May 12, Alena Sulizova. St. Petersburg Zenit accustomed to the role of Russian football champion, the team lacks motivation, said the best football player of the USSR in 1972, Olympic bronze medalist Evgeniy Lovchev.
Zenit, the champion of the last five seasons, has not won in the Russian Premier League (RPL) for four matches. The team is in second place in the table, two points behind the leading Dynamo Moscow.
“»When you are eager for the championship, that’s one thing. The mood is to win. When you are a champion five times, you no longer have such zeal. Well, there will be a sixth, so what? Zenit really lacks this hunger, that’s why they They give almost everything away. They have a stronger squad, but something is broken, because they don’t win gold, they snatch gold,” Lovchev said.
The best RPL player of last season, Brazilian Malcom, moved from Zenit to Saudi Al-Hilal in August.
«We have now seen that the main ringleader and the one who made the result was Malcom. If something didn’t work out for the team, he created chances. As soon as he left, there were fewer chances,» – noted the agency’s interlocutor.