Dnipro-1 defender Oleksandr Svatok summed up the results of his team's first match against Cypriot AEK (1:2) in the playoff round of the Europa League qualification.
“It was our first official game after a long time. Yes, we held friendly matches, but official ones are completely different.
The opponent punished us for the mistakes we made in the first half. But after the break, we managed to play our game. Perhaps some kind of burden fell off our shoulders, because they realized that we had nothing to lose. It is a pity that so many created chances were not realized. We should have leveled the score at least - there were enough chances to score more. We will work on this.
In general, the score allows you to go to the return match with thoughts of a positive result, ”Swatok said in a FootballHub comment.