LTA’s American coach Shek Borkowski, currently in charge of Russian Champions Zvezda-2005, has ripped his team’s performance to shreds despite 3:0 win in the 2010 Russian Premier League season opener.

Zvezda beat the fellow title-challengers FC Energia Voronezh in front of about 900 home faithful braving rain and cold at the Zvezda Stadium in Perm Sunday. The seemingly comfortable 3:0 scoreline behind the strikes by Zvezda’s Ukrainian internationals Vera Djatel and Dasha Apanaschenko and an own goal from Yulia Zapotichnaya did not impress the Polish-born tactician:

“I am very disappointed with our team, especially with the way our midfielders and forwards played. 4-5 players completely fell out of the game today. We will have to work very hard, and the team will have to improve quickly if we want to achieve anything this season. This concerns both foreign and Russian players. This performance is completely unacceptable, and if we continue to play like this we’ll even struggle against our reserve team,” said Borkowski at the post-match press-conference.

Zvezda-2005 will play their next match away to last year’s Russian Premier League Runners-Up and Cup Winners – FC Rossiyanka (Moscow Region) on April 29th in Krasnoarmeysk.