"We could even win"

The first match of this year "Tom" played a draw. Our team's opponent was Zenit St. Petersburg. According to the head coach of “Tom” Vasily Baskakov, the team surpassed “Zenith” in scoring chances, and at the end of the match the “Tom” players could even win.

The match was played away and ended with the score 0:0. During the game, two Zenit players received yellow cards.

According to Vasily Baskakov, during the match with Zenit, the players were helped by an analysis of the game with Borussia Dortmund.

“The game with Borussia was indicative for us. Of course, we are not Borussia, but I told the guys that we can also play in defense. We blocked all the zones, created compactness, which allowed us to neutralize Hulk and Rondon,” - Vasily Baskakov said at the post-match conference.

As the head coach of FC Zenit Luciano Spalletti noted, “Tom” played very closed and organized.

“On a difficult field, the match came down more to a physical fight, martial arts. We acted too slowly, we should have tried to play faster in order to create problems for the opponent. But today we played slowly with our feet, and above all with our heads,” said Luciano Spalletti.

According to FC Zenit midfielder Oleg Shatov, Tom played well, but Zenit, on the contrary, played poorly.

Let's add that our team is now in 13th place, having earned 16 points in 20 games. Zenit, having scored 41 points in 20 matches, leads the standings.

Our team will play the next match on March 13 at the Trud stadium against Tyumen Tyumen in the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup. The match starts at 18:30.