We've missed playing official games and approached the match with Arsenal with a real fighting mood. It''s always nice to play official matches. The game was hard, we had to be sure to score the second goal to make it certain. It is good that we won, all the guys did well and deserved the win.

What happened at the end of the match? Why did Zenit concede? 

Probably we relaxed too soon. We thought that the victory was already secured. Of course, we should let this happen. The coach before the match warned us that Tula are a team with character. In the first part of the season they scored a lot of goals in the final final minutes and grabbing points. 

Zenit's team has changed a lot, it's a lot of new players. As they joined the team? 

All has been well received by the players, I was new not so long ago and we try to help everyone when they start.

When you scored the goal from the corner did you do it on purpose or was there an element of luck? 

No, I tried to put it into the near post. It just happened that I slipped a bit and the ball flew into the net. It was luck, it's the first time I've scored from a corner.

In winter, you trained with the Zenit first team. Did you gain anything during this time? 

Of course, the two training camps and training with the first team gave me a lot of advantages.

Very soon, Zenit will begin to play at the new stadium. Do the players of Zenit-2 and youth team want to play at main Petrovsky? 

It's the first time I've thought about this. But it would be nice to play there, it would make us even more professional.