Jozsef Szabo: "If Dynamo passed Fenerbahce, then Sturm must also pass"

Long-term football player and coach of Dynamo Kyiv, Jozsef Szabo, commented on the return match of the Kyivans with Fenerbahce in the 2nd qualifying round of the Champions League.

- Fenerbahce is much weaker than Dynamo. Dynamo had to replay this team. Today, this is a weak team. They do not understand each other, there are too many mistakes in transmissions. There is no practiced attack - there is only a mass raid. I was wrong when I thought that Fenerbahce is a team that can show the game. They didn't show anything. Kievans won naturally. Fenerbahce players don't understand each other. Except for one moment, where Bushchan played well, nothing was created. Dynamo looked much better - Tsygankov had two chances, Zabarny could also score.

- How did the removal affect the opponent's game?

- It had an effect: an extra player and forces are taken away in the selection, but the people of Kiev won by right. They should have moved on. Psychologically, the removal helped our team.

- Who is to blame for the missed goal?

- Buschan took a penalty, but then he made a mistake on the way out. He can say that he was interfered with, but he missed when hitting the ball and scored the central defender.

- Can anyone be singled out in the composition of the "white-blue"?

- The whole team played well on the road. Fenerbahce looked disassembled. There is nothing special about this team. And the people of Kiev had several good moments where they had to score. The Turks were ill-prepared.

Kendzera plays at his level. Verbic lowered the requirements. Lucescu has two squads. As for the attackers, there are none. Yes, there is hard work, but there is no feeling of a goal. They are not scoring.

- Did the arbitrator cope with his duties?

- He led the game and did not give any of the teams an advantage. What needed to be given, he gave.

- What can you say about the game form of the Kyivans?

- Some journalists write that Dynamo has no match practice. How not, when they played matches for a month and a half with average and good teams. It was noticeable that Dynamo had a very good level of team discipline.

- Next, Dynamo will play with Sturm. How would you rate your opponent?

- For us, the Austrian teams are not lucky. We need to pack up and move on. Since Dynamo passed the Turks, it is obliged to pass the Austrians as well. It will be easier to play against them on the road - there will be no such support as at home for Fenerbahce and Sturm.

We can say that this game was not a Champions League game. Further, it will be difficult for the people of Kiev with such a line-up and such a game: the middle line is practically absent, there are problems in attack.

Nikolay TIMOSHCHUK