Leonid Slutskiy: Unfortunately we couldn't play in the second half as well as we did in the first
— We played two different halves. In the first half we played well, a lot happened, and we could of had a bigger advantage. In the second half there was no counterattacking play from our team. This is because Dzagoev and Eremenko weren't fully fit. They are both key players who build out attacks from the back. Given the Bibras Natcho injury, we had no other player who would have dictated the game in the middle of the park. We had to defend a lot, and when you do it against such a strong team for long periods it's hard to keep a clean sheet. There is a feeling of regret that we couldn't play in the second half as good as we did in the first.
— The second half was bad for your team. Don’t you see the tendency?
— I can name many matches, where in the second half we showed better quality than in the first. Today’s situation was due to the fact that the key creative players wasn’t in their best conditions.
— How would you rate the situation in the Group B?
— We’d had better chances if we had won tonight. Though the draw leaves us good chances.
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