Byshovets urges Lokomotiv Moscow to win the upcoming Russian Premier League tie against Zenit St. Petersburg despite suffering a 2-0 defeat against Dynamo Moscow
Former Shakhtar Donetsk manager, Anatoliy Byshovets, has tipped Lokomotiv Moscow
to win the upcoming Russian Premier League tie against Zenit St. Petersburg at Luzhniki stadium. He believes that the victory will help them forget the humiliating 2-0 defeat against arch rivals, Dynamo Moscow recently.
There’s little arguing that Lokomotiv had a decent start to the third league round, having claimed 6 points from the opening 3 outings. However, they lost their ground during the Russian Cup quarter-finals after recording a humiliating
4-0 defeat against Rubin Kazan at Tsentralnyi stadion.
While talking about the Railroaders upcoming league tie against Zenit, Byshovets admitted that Loko are low on confidence, and they need to get a win if they are to reduce the deficit.
As things stand, they are at the third-spot on the league table and trail the leaders by 11 points.
Byshovets admitted that the Parovozy have demonstrated decent results in the UEFA Europe League this season , and highlighted their 2-1 win against Spanish outfit, Athletic Bilbao at home.
Though the Red-greens went on to win the home leg, they left the European tournament on a sad note after suffering an aggregate defeat against Bilbao on the away goal rule during the return leg.
Byshovets went on to praise Lokomotiv head coach, Jose Couceiro, admitting that the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186 coach will help the Russian outfit in winning a league title in the near future.
“Couceiro has groomed http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Taras-Burlak-c34663. There’s little arguing that the Railroaders have terrific defensively. But they have conceded too many goals in their Russian Cup defeat against Rubin, so they might be low
in confidence.” The former Kuban Krasnodar consultant was quoted as saying.
Byshovets revealed that the Railroader's Russian Cup defeat will not affect their league performance and gave the example of Zenit’s defeat against Dynamo.
Though the Meshki defeated the Dinamiki 5-1 in the league, they suffered a 1-0 defeat against the Moscow-based club in the cup tournament.
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