Yuri Zhirkov: "We've had some tough training and this affected the quality of the match
The Zenit full-back spoke about Russia's 1-0 defeat to Austria.
Are you satisfied with the results of the training camp?
I feel fine, yes.
Is it possible to compare this stage of preparation with that of ten years ago before Euro 2008?
You can say that we've had similar preperation.
It seemed that the second half was poor.
It felt like that, yes. In the first half we played well and pressured them, the Austrians came back and countered and we used a lot of energy on this.
Why did not the team deal not have a single shot on target?
Hard to say. Perhaps, due to the fact that we changed tactics for this game: before that we played with five defenders and yesterday we played with four. As for the attack, there was little we could do after losing the ball too much.