Anatoly Byshovets comments on Lokomotiv trial match against Romanian club CFR

On their way to Premier Liga matches restart Lokomotiv played a trial match against the bronze medalists of Romanian championship CFR.

Moscow club failed to overcome their rivals suffering a frustrating 3-4 loss.

After the clash Loko manager Anatoly Byshovets commented on the outcome of the match to Sport Express.

"CFR players were one of the strongest Loko rivals during my managerial career in the Moscow club", said Byshovets to Sport Express.

"This team is perfectly organized since there are many international players in the squad."

"So their victorious ambitions are not casual because victories over such clubs as Austrian champions Salzburg and silver medalists Austria can justify CFR have chosen a right path for success."

"It was important for us to keep players in form and give them appropriate amount of work and this was the main reason for the choice of the opponents."

"We played a tough game and it was more similar to an official match rather than a friendly one."

"None of the teams wanted to be defeated."

"Loko were 1-3 behind and of course we wanted to equalize and take the lead then."

"I am satisfied we managed to equalize but our rivals got the upper hand."

"I am greatly concerned about the present form of several players since they looked not so well as the others."

"But we should take into account that some of them had to change their positions on the field and this could tell on their display."

"We scored three times but I would like our forwards to upset the opponents? goalkeepers more frequent."

"Dmitry Sychev had several scoring opportunities but failed to realize them."

"I also would like to see Bilyaletdinov participating I the team?s attacking actions more often."

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