Former Dynamo Moscow player urges Pavlyuchenko to perform after returning to the Russian Premier League from Tottenham Hotspur during the transfer window.
Lokomotiv Moscow managed to sign http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Roman-Pavlyuchenko-c31639 from Tottenham Hotspur during the winter transfer window. However, the Russian striker is yet to match the expectations after making an emotional return to the Russian Premier
League.
The Russian Cup winner has failed to perform in his first two league games ever since his mouth-watering move from the North London club.
The 30-year-old was called straight into the first team for the game against Kuban Krasnodar. However, owing to his poor performance, Jose Couceiro, the Lokhi head coach, demoted him to the bench for their latest goalless draw
against Rubin Kazan.
The Portuguese tactician preferred http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Felipe-Caicedo-c13525 over him against the Kazan-based club. Pavlyuchenko, meanwhile, started the match on the bench and came on in the 68th minute.
Senior football analyst, Evgeny Lovchev, has urged the prolific forward to step up in the third league round by scoring goals for the Moscow-based club and urged him to start performing if he wants to retain a starting berth.
"It is insulting for such an ambitious player because the manager preferred another striker, Caicedo, and Pavlyuchenko played only 25 minutes during the second half. I wonder what Roman thought sitting on a bench. I think he needs
to earn his reputation back.” The Soviet Top League winner was quoted as saying.
Lovchev went on to defend the Carling Cup runner up, admitting that Pavlyuchenko had a tough spell with the English outfit and needs time to recover.
Speaking on his transfer decision, Lovchev revealed that Pavlyuchenko was right to leave the English outfit, highlighting the star strikers at the White Hart Lane. Harry Redknapp preferred http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Emmanuel-Adebayor-c12526 and Louis
Saha over Pavlyuchenko during his stay.
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