Vyacheslav Grulev: The team fought well throughout the match

— You scored three of your eleven goals for Dynamo against Krasnodar. Are they your favorite opponent?

— Yes, it looks so. There is some kind of tendency, but I do not know why it happens like this. There are always interesting matches against Krasnodar. They try to play bright football, so every time we have such a double-edged game with them.

— Now you have become the Dynamo top scorer in the matches against Krasnodar. What does this mean to you?

— This is a fairly young club. The history of our rivalry is not so long, so we should not focus on it. We won and it's great.

— You were named Man of the match for the first time this season. Will this award add more confidence ahead of the upcoming matches of this year?

— I wouldn't say that I did anything supernatural today. We had a great combination, and I just ran to the far post in time. I would like to mention the whole team, which fought well for 95 minutes and kept the clean sheet. Well done!

— You turned home well at the far post. How did you manage to shoot in this way?

— I reached the far post by inertia, and I just had to hit the ball well. It was inconvenient for the goalkeeper. I shot well, so he could not deny this strike.

— You often appeared on the left wing to face Uroš Spajić, who usually plays as a centre-back. Did the coaches ask you to attack through this wing more often?

— No, we found out that Uroš Spajić would play in this position just before the match. I don't know what was the reason for Petrov's absence. So we didn't prepare for this, we just followed our principles in attack, and everything went well.

— The fourth consecutive win over Krasnodar, the return to the top-3 – do these factors give strength and energy for productive training during the international break?

— Yes, of course, it was important to earn three points and return to the race for the top spot.