Dan Petrescu has blamed Fabio Capello for fielding Dynamo Moscow’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Kokorin-c4576 for more than an hour in the International friendly match against United States
The Russian national team head coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Fabio-c13152 Capello, started the Russian international against United States at Kuban stadium and the Dynamo Moscow player took part in the game for more than an hour.
Kokorin, who completed 67 minutes of the International friendly match, was replaced by Spartak Moscow’s http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Artem-Dzyuba-c6682 on Wednesday.
The Moscow-based club’s head coach, Dan Petrescu, has questioned Capello’s decision to use his star striker in a friendly game excessively.
Petrescu, who joined the White-Blues after leaving Kuban Krasnodar this summer, insisted that they will now have to start the upcoming Russian Premier League tie against Zenit St. Petersburg on Saturday without Kokorin due to precautionary
measures.
As things stand, Dynamo are at the 10th spot on the league table with just 18 points courtesy to their slow start to the league campaign this season.
And while football pundits and analysts are pointing out fingers at Petrescu after their worst start in years, the Romanian tactician revealed that he cannot win games without important players at this stage of the season.
“I think it was pointless to hold friendly matches at the end of the year when the players have an important part to play at their respective clubs. You see players need a pause at this time. We do not want to risk player’s health
after playing him in back-to-back games.”
“It’s Impossible to fully prepare against Zenit since none of the location of the player has returned to Dynamo yet. Though the St. Petersburg club will be dealing with similar issue, we do not have worthy replacements.”
“It would have been better had Kokorin played until half-time.” The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Chelsea-c38786 player was quoted as saying.
The 41-year-old manager was left with only two genuine strikers at his disposal in the squad after sending http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andriy-Voronin-c6020 out-on-loan to Fortuna Düsseldorf during the summer transfer window.
And while http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kevin-Kuranyi-c20736 is struggling to rediscover his old form since the start of the season, goal-scoring responsibility lies on Kokorin shoulders.
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