Xavi Pascual: "All the players gave their best"
— It was hard for both teams to play in this match, because both we and the opponents expected more. There are still a lot of injuries in our team, but those players who are ready, they gave their best. We were in the lead in the match from the very beginning, we experienced some problems in the end, but in the end we won. We will try to prepare for Monday.
— Has the team already managed to rebuild after the semi-finals?
— It's difficult because we've been working all season to play in the finals and try to win. This season, I think we prepared the team very well in the preseason, won the Supercup, continued the season, took the Russian Cup, prepared well for playing in the top 6 and were the best team there. Unfortunately, 5 days before the start of the playoffs, we lost Dublevic, tried to do everything we could, then lost Kuric, then Zhbanov during the playoffs, Karasev at the end of the sixth game… So we were very unlucky in this regard, maybe that's why we're not in the finals.
Now we're here. We are short of players, but we want to finish as well as possible. But the truth is that there is not much reserve strength in the team.
