Mircea Lucescu - after the match with Fenerbahce: "A very good match between two strong teams"

On Wednesday, July 27, in the second leg of the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League, Dynamo Kyiv beat the local Fenerbahce in Istanbul with a score of 2:1 and advanced to the next stage by the sum of two meetings (0:0, 2:1) tournament. Your attention is the post-match commentary of the head coach of the Ukrainian team Mircea Lucescu.

— We have collected a lot of information and prepared very well for this game over the past five days. The guys gave their all on the field. We organized our defense very well, especially in the first half, because we knew that Fenerbahce would start the fight very aggressively and would put pressure on our team. We succeeded in dealing with this, and in the second half, as discussed before, we wanted to level the game and win.

It was a very good match between two strong teams. I am very glad that my team was able to maintain a good physical level until the very end of the match. I think we deserved to win this qualifying round.

- How can you comment on the removal of the opponent?

— Yuksek made a lot of mistakes. In addition, the game was quite tough, requiring physical endurance: a lot of long passes. In a word, there was a big battle on the field.