Former football player and coach of Dnipro Mykola Fedorenko commented on the disastrous performance of Dnipro-1 in the playoff round of the Europa League qualification. Recall that the Dnipro team did not manage to pass the Cypriot AEK at this stage - 1:2, 0:3.
“Having so many scoring chances but not scoring is outrageous. How can you hit above the goal from the line with the goalkeeper's head? In children's textbooks they write that from a close distance you need to punch down with your head, under the goalkeeper's feet. These are simple things.
In the return match with AEK, almost all of the Dnipro's shots were blocked. I think that there is some flaw with the implementation of moments. We need to tell the players about this, prompt them, analyze the mistakes.
The class of Dnepr-1 players is very good. You just have to score. Maybe it was necessary to make replacements earlier, to release young players.
A good game is not a result. The Cypriots had one and a half attacks, but they managed to score three goals. But the reason for the defeat of "Dnepr-1" I would not call it nefart. The reason is the inability to convert scoring chances.
But it must be taken into account that in the summer Dnepr-1 was headed by a new head coach Oleksandr Kucher. Any coach needs time to settle down, to see the capabilities of the players. This takes at least three months. Nothing happens right away. It is necessary to organize the training process, bring the players to the same denominator so that they still fulfill the requirements of the coach. All this takes time,” Fedorenko said.