The Palycha train stalled. What are the reasons – Premier League News – Football

PROBLEMS ALWAYS BEGIN IN THE PAST SEASON

On the one hand, nothing terrible for "Loco" yet happened: no one can in no way be drawn against a strong "Ufa" on the road Consider a disastrous result, and the Super Bowl is usually alone, you can safely forget it. No more of the traditional championship favorites in the opening matches showed a sparkling and exciting game – neither Spartak, nor Zenit, nor Krasnodar. Not everyone is easy to get into the season, the general situation is aggravated later by the return to the collection clubs, and all the extravagance according to the laws of logic will come later

[Lukomotiv] first unlike competitors, and secondly, in his football there is a disturbing symptomatology. For 210 minutes the country's champion did not score, there are difficulties with the position attack, scoring chances – a minimum. The red and green have not yet received a single full time in which they would have acted with a game advantage (not necessarily territorial).

This trend is even more frightening when we remember that it does not last two games. much longer. After all, at the end of the championship season, Semin's train also drove hard and slowly, with clangs, crunches and stops. In the last five rounds of the Premier League-2017/18, "Loco" has scored only one goal – the same, gold, at the door of "Zenith". Before him were 0-0 with Akhmat and Ufa, 0-2 from Krasnodar, and after – 0-2 from Arsenal.

Okay, the match in Tula with a half-reserve composition, which was in addition in the euphoric champion state, we take it out of the parentheses. But you can also pay attention to the pre-season, where the railroaders scored only two games out of five, and won once, although they did not meet the most formidable opponents – "Austria "(1: 1)," Osijek "(0: 0)," Wolfsberger "(0: 0)," Fast "(0: 3) and" Akhisar "(2: 1).

Is not it the symptoms of a creative crisis?

NOT FATIGUE, ADAPTATION TO THE SEASON

Semin press conference in Nizhny Novgorod still indignant because of the calendar which ordered the team to play the first round of hours This coach did not want to make any excuses. He knew the current physical state of the team better than you and knew that players could not perform two games in a row (and two other flights).

Semin's words were reflected in the tactics chosen by the "Locomotive" of Ufa. The railroaders in the first half deliberately gave the ball to the opponent (possession of 45 by 42 in favor of the hosts), refused aggressive pressure, did not make any attempts to select the player. on the other side and played the counter-attacker. the ball goes up on Edera, then gets the rebounds. Before the break, the champion saved his strength – and then he started acting in the middle zone and near the foreign penalty more actively. Possession straightened up immediately.

Coaches apparently feared that if the team took the initiative, there was a risk of getting up again due to fatigue in the home stretch. We recall, for example, how last year after the Super Cup "Spartacus" crushed Dynamo in the first half, scored two goals, and in the second red and white all the l '; air came out and the victory was missed. From this point of view, Semin's plan seemed justified Monday and led to an improvement in the quality of football in the second half. Look at the WyScout data table.

However, visually, it is still noticeable that the players of "Locomotive" do not move very well. Note how little Farfan makes a firm throw, how heavy it is to dribble Fernandes, how rarely Ignatiev connects to the right, how much mistakes admits Miranchuk. This is not even fatigue (for the Super Cup "Loko" after all badly played and in the fresh state), and adaptation in progress to the season. Football players have not yet fully experienced their bodies, do not remember how to properly allocate forces, are not accustomed to the rhythm of the calendar.

Therefore, the current tone is one of the reasons for lean football. The same words can be attributed to "Zenith" and "Spartacus."

TROP MIRANCHUKI

From the general we will go to private. For starters, let us remember what Lokomotiv last year was famous for. First and foremost, his main badets are discipline, dedication, patience, stability and consistency, and the improvisation of Miranchuk, Fernandes and Farfan. Thanks to these four, who together gave almost the best season in their career, and the progress of red-green in high-speed and positional football took place.

How much the attack of the team can disappear if the attacking group abandons alone alone, we were convinced even in April-May, when Fernandes has was hurt by a rib and either did not come out at all, appeared, but played through the pain. Now, the four football players are not aware of the optimal conditions, which are united by one fact: they were involved in the national teams at the world championships, but they did not have enough time there -low. Anton Miranchuk – zero minute, Alexei – 62, Fernandes – 12, Farfan – 130, but was eliminated because of injury after the second round and then he was treated.

If two strangers now show at least ] something, Miranchuky has not returned to reason. Decisions to sharpen in their actions are not observed, working with the ball a lot of losses, the speed of thought is low. Why, for example, did the "Ufa" attack start, resulting in a penalty? Alexei Miranchuk tried to play the ball with a heel in the central area to his brother, and Anton did not understand it and slipped. The result was a break in the 93rd minute and a lightning pbad on Igbun

THE EDITOR'S COMMAND FROM NON-WORK

Loko's main scorer at the start of the season was Eder and the Team football is now periodically simplified. He stumbles on a long cast towards the Portuguese. Probably Semin, as an impressionable person, comes from what he saw at the World Championships. There was a cult of great attackers everywhere, and Giroux, who had never scored a goal in the tournament, but who had a huge advantage in building attacks, became the embodiment of this trend.

However, France had not only Giraud but also have time on the rebounds. And in Croatia, Mandzhukichu helped Rebić and Perisic. The Lokomotiv has neither Grizmann nor Perišić, but there is a Fernandes and a Miranchuk loaded, which do not perform the amount of work required in filling the areas and do not even have the time after the discounts. Yes, and hangs on the ball Eder, despite the size, bad. Against Ufa, he won only three martial arts out of 15, according to WyScout. His total wedding TTD was 70%

It makes sense that after the break, when the Lokomotiv started to lower the ball more often and to use the central area and the half-flanks at the defense exit , the attack gave rise to with the game. I do not rule out that Semin will send not Edera, but from Farfan, who started on the flank at the next turn with the Spartak

AND ALL-TAKI SECOND TIME UFE – IN PLUS

Now, many people say that the "Lokomotiv" is just out of the fart, which has accompanied the champion's crowds last season, helped to win victories in the final minutes and score goals. Only to talk about it after all early. In Ufa, the railroaders were just as unlucky (Eder was deprived of a clean goal after a free kick, Farfan did not hit his goal in the 90th minute), and he was lucky (Igbun did not realize penalty, At the beginning of the second half, to the accentuation of the "second floor", he also hit at a height suitable for Guillerme and not in a corner. [19659006] I suspect that speaking of luck in general offends the locomotive's fans, but for them to stop, we have to answer the team not in words, but on the ground.

What are reserves to strengthen? First, the four mentioned above, which are still able to deliver crazy football against any opponent, should get the form. to be, the team will help the arrival of Kryhovyak, after all the same Barinov in the support zone can not still face, duplicates the duties of Igor Denisov, misplaced the ball forward and weakly supports the attack. In a match with Ufa, the 21-year-old midfielder, for example, has too many losses – 18, including nine in his own half of the field.

I am not sure that the appearance of Hevedes will make time, as Lokomotiv's defense center today. and so is the most stable line. The same Kverkvelia is absolutely the best on the basis of the results of two matches, partly thanks to him, throwing himself under the blows and the lumbago, catching Ignatiev, the railroaders with a weak attack preserve at least a decent protection

would have been helpful However, the second half of Ufa is still worth it to be brought to the railwaymen in a plus, not in a minus. Yes, they were kicking the opponent's attack and almost lost on the pitch, but before that, they woke up and showed that they could slowly add up during the match.

The penalty reflected in the final seconds will contribute to good mood before the Spartak battle. Still a print is a kind of but the result. So much the more, a draw held at a time when mentally you were already ready to accept defeat.