How do you rate Daniil Prokhin and Dmitry Chistyakov performances today? Will we see Prokhin playing against Club Brugge?
Yes, we’ve no alternative and that is likely. Regarding today’s game, there were some questions and it was obvious that it was their first match together. Overall they were not very confident today.
Will Dzyuba retain the captain's armband when Lovren returns?
We'll see. We have a number of players who can wear the captain's armband. Artem wore it today so we'll see.
Will Wendel and Ozdoev be available for the match with Club Brugge?
We'll see. Even if they have recovered, they won’t be in perfect condition so it’s unlikely we’ll be able to call on them.
Malcom had a lot of chances in the second half in and around the opposition penalty area, but he didn’t shot and instead passed. Why is that? Does he take many shots in training?
He often shoots and today he found himself in many good positions, the pitch affected the game and after fifteen minutes it was already cutting up, this made things difficult as it was too soft and because of the poor pitch we saw mistakes. It was difficult out there and the pitch affected the course of the match.
During the half time break, Yuri Zhirkov said that it was tough for him to play so much and we saw you experiment in defence today, but did you consider playing Musaev on the left? In a few days you’re playing Club Brugge and it is unclear whether Douglas Santos and Krugovoy will be available to play.
We did consider that option, but that would be too much of an experimental line-up. There is no player in our country who can play in that position like Yuri can. Today he played as much as he could.
At the end of the second half, you were going to make a double substitution, but Shamkin came on alone. What was the issue?
No, we didn't plan a double replacement. We wanted to put on Krapukhin, but changed that to Shamkin.
