Dejan Lovren: "today we showed our character and fully deserved the win"

The Zenit defender spoke to us about the win over CSKA Moscow. 
Dejan Lovren: "today we showed our character and fully deserved the win"
There were two good teams and CSKA deserved to be in top of the league before the game. They are a really good team and they played well in defence, but today we showed our character and fully deserved the win.

It looked like Zenit dominated the first half, but something changed in the second half…

Yes, I think we did in the first half, we used a lot of energy and played really well. It didn't look like we gave them one chance in the first half. But in the second half we started playing deeper and made a few mistakes. We must learn from this and I hope that we will improve this for the next match and play better in the second half. 

How would you rate CSKA's play at the end of the match?

It is always difficult to play a good team like CSKA, but at the end of the match we played well and both sides defended well. Unfortunately, we conceded from the penalty spot, but that's part of football.