Evgeny Lovchev laments Zenit St. Petersburg’s latest UEFA Champions League defeat against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/SL-Benfica-c40542 and urged them not to blame injuries.
The 2008 UEFA Cup winners, Zenit St. Petersburg, suffered a humiliating 2-0 UEFA Champions League defeat in the return leg at Estádio da Luz. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Jorge-c19120 Jesus’ men romped past the Russian outfit by winning the round-of-16 4-3
on aggregate to reach the quarter-finals of the continental tournament.
Zenit failed to hold on to the one-goal advantage they had earned during the first leg at Petrovsky stadium and conceded two goals during the return leg, much to the disappointment of the travelling fans.
In the aftermath of the outcome, the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Spartak-Moscow-c39218 player, Evgeny Lovchev, has admitted that Benfica were the better team on the pitch and urged the Russian outfit to improve in future.
Lovchev, a senior football analyst, went on to admit that Zenit are themselves to blame for the recent European defeat. Domenico Criscito, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Danko-Lazovic-c10188 were called straight into the first team following
injuries to key players.
Danny Miguel failed to return ahead of the the crunch tie after sustaining a knee injury. Lovchev revealed that Zenit need to understand that the Portuguese starlet would not have saved them from the defeat.
"There will be a lot of talk about the latest defeat. People will say that Zenit would have won against Benfica if they had http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Danny-c10193. But I do not agree with that because when Miguel played in Porto, Zenit managed to claim a
0-0 draw.
"Benfica started the game aggressively. Though the St. Petersburg club fear no opponent, but the opposition bettered them on the pitch. Zenit lost the match due to lack of creativity in midfield. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roman-Shirokov-c31645
and Konstatin Zyryanov played poorly. It's a shame that they failed to attack.” The Soviet Top League winner was quoted as saying.
Lovchev blasted Zenit striker, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Portugal-c2984.
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