On Sunday, "Zenit" defeated the "Crvena Zvezda" team 3:0 in a friendly match. This was reported by Euro-football.ru.
After the match, the head coach of the St. Petersburg team, Sergey Semak, shared his thoughts. He was asked whether everything was going well from a sports perspective. Semak replied: "Of course, no.
This was the first official match after the break. I can say that our game in the first half went quite well.
In the second half, however, there were many changes, and fatigue was noticeable. We were also close to conceding a goal easily.
We couldn't play reliably in defense according to the plan," he said. These words were quoted by "Match TV". There is less than three weeks left until the new season of the Russian championship.
"Zenit" will face the "Rostov" team at home in the first round. Last season, the reigning Russian champion "Zenit" finished the competition in second place, having collected one point less than "Krasnodar". The team is seriously preparing for the new season and is trying to eliminate shortcomings before the start of the season.
