"Storm" - "Dynamo" - 1:2. Post-match press conference. Lucescu: "Incredibly difficult match against a very good team"

On Tuesday, August 9, in the second leg of the 3rd qualifying round of the Champions League, Dynamo Kyiv defeated Austrian Sturm with a score of 2:1 and advanced to the next stage by the sum of two meetings (1:0, 2:1) tournament. Your attention is the post-match press conference of the head coach of the Ukrainian team Mircea Lucescu.

— Congratulations on your victory! The joker worked again - Vivcharenko scored. Was the reverse substitution of Garmash made in order for Dynamo to finish the match in full force?

— Today was an incredibly difficult match against a very good team. If before the fight with Fenerbahce I was calm and confident that we can win, today everything was different. I knew that we were facing a very powerful team, well prepared physically, with young, enthusiastic players.

Sturm knows how to play in qualifying and was very motivated. In such a situation, we had to prevent the opponent from controlling the game and having a positional advantage. Instead, they wanted to make them move a lot without the ball. As we have seen, in the last 30 minutes, Sturm players could no longer continue to play their game.

As for Vivcharenko, he played very well in attack and, as a result, he managed to score. I assumed that the appearance of Vivcharenko and Karavaev on the field would change the game, because these are players of a more attacking plan.

The replacement of Garmash was due to the fact that he began to get nervous and protest, which is unacceptable for a professional player with his experience. His replacement is connected with this, because he could create big problems for our team.