Anatoliy Tymoschuk: "I came to St. Petersburg to wish the team luck"

The former-captain of the blue-white-sky blues on the match against Amkar and Lucescu's playing style.
As you know, I'm no longer player for a team and its now the weekend so I looked at the fixture list and saw Zenit were playing and decided to come. It was very interesting to see the game live, especially against a good team.

What are your impressions? 

In the beginning there was some nervousness, then everything went better, we played some beautiful passes and created a lot of chances. Perm were trying to do something, but their game plan didn't really come off. As a result, it was a well-deserved victory for Zenit.

Were you aware that before this game Amkar did not let in a single goal

Yes, it looks like I brought some luck to the game, we scored the first against them and kept a clean sheet. I was very pleased with the football today.

You know well what football Lucescu plays. Do Zenit already look like one of his teams? 

If we talk about ball possession, we can say that the team is listening to the coach. With regard to the volume and speed movement, it has some problems. Also, as I've heard, Zenit has been having tough training and they will need to get used to this, especially since there is no Hulk and Danny is injured, they are a significant loss to the team. But the coach is 100% right. I think what we are seeing about half of what he wants.