Alexander Erokhin: "we needed to score as quickly as possible"

The Zenit and Russia midfielder on the Cup win against Tom Tomsk.

The most important thing is we won today and have progressed in the competition. We scored a lot of goals, even though in the first half we didn’t finish all the chances we had, in the second half we pulled off a confident win.

Was the first goal today especially important? Because if it had not happened Tom could have parked the bus?

Indeed, we needed to score as quickly as possible. They also had a chance when they could have scored themselves. After that, the game was under our control.

You seemed relaxed in the first half, was that because the game was easy?

I would not say that the game was easy. We had several chances to score yes, but, maybe at some points we lost our concentration a bit and allowed Tomsk to have chances of their own.

You haven’t played that much recently, has that affected your fitness?

Now I feel really good. I’m ready and want to play. I hope that I will do that more often.