Journalist Artem Frankov commented on Dynamo's advance to the playoffs of the Champions League and the prospects of Mircea Lucescu's team in the confrontation with Benfica.
Artem Frankov“The people of Kiev passed, thank God and cheers. But now the White-Blues need to move on, and there are questions about this - not just some, but very significant ones. The trouble is that against Benfica, the game of Dynamo, demonstrated with Fenerbahce and Sturm, is absolutely not enough - the opponent is in potency, in theory, without going out face to face, a head and shoulders stronger. Personally, I understand this very well, Dynamo knows it, moreover, anyone who knows even a gram about football is aware of this.
"Grandfather" demonstrated a fantastic ability to squeeze out the team's trump cards. We cannot outplay the opponent - this is how we outrun him, as happened a hundred and fifty times under Lobanovsky, without unnecessary screams and suffering, each match, if not like the last, then like the penultimate one! Well, if suddenly the already revealed capabilities of the Kyiv team are enough against Benfica, which demonstrates enviable dashingness at the beginning of the season, Mircea Mikhailovich and his team will certainly show us a miracle. They, these miracles, happen in football, and it is not for me to remind you of the time and place of such phenomena.
In fact, well, why not, huh?!..,” Frankov wrote in the editorial of the latest online issue of the Football magazine.
