After the match Astana vs Taraz the Acting Head Coach of the capital team Paul Ashworth shared his opinion about the match:
- We have got a bad result. We conceded a stupid goal. We controlled the match before the conceded goal, but then we lost discipline and stopped playing. We didn’t have enough chances, we knew that the opponent would play compactly in defense, but in the last 30 minutes, the team began to panic, playing only with long balls. I have been with the team for only three days, this is a short time to do something, but I was expecting the better football in the team’s performance.
- Today Sotiriou took the pitch only for the last 30 minutes. Was he not ready in terms of conditioning?
- Pieros was injured and we risked a lot fielding him. But he is a good forward who was able to help us.
- Now there is a pause for the matches of the National Team, will it benefit the team?
- Of course, it should be useful. We have 7 players of the main squad injured – in addition to Sotiriu, these are Rukavina, Tomasevic, Radakovic, Sigurjonsson, Logvinenko and Chshyotkin. We hope that after the National Team they will be able to return and the situation will be better.