The captain of the Austrian Sturm Stefan Hierlender commented on the defeat of his team by Dynamo Kyiv (0:1) in the first match of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League, which took place yesterday in Lodz, Poland.
— We are disappointed. After all, we wanted to win today in order to have a good starting position for the second leg, but we failed. We looked good in the first few minutes, then we had two good chances at the Dynamo goal, which, unfortunately, we did not use. In return, they got an own goal.
After that, we no longer managed to cling to the ball properly, the interaction between the lines did not go well. In addition, we have become somewhat passive. We no longer had grip. And with such a game in tournaments of this level, it’s hard to recoup. In addition, Dynamo played well. It can be seen that this team has quality in every sense.
Nothing to do, today 0:1. So our goal in the second leg is to catch up. We are optimistic about the home game against Dynamo. We can achieve much more than we did today. We demonstrated this last Saturday when we beat Salzburg (2:1), and this is a team that is comparable to Dynamo Kyiv in terms of its level,” Hierlander said after the end of the match with Dynamo.