Ihor Yavorskyi: "Harmash at the point of attack is no longer funny"

Famous Ukrainian coach Ihor Yavorskyi in an interview "TEAM 1" commented on the start of "Dynamo" in the Europa League.

— To be honest, I was very confused by the Dynamo team's game. It seemed that the Kyivans entered the field with one goal - not to miss. Believe me, such passive tactics are doomed to failure sooner or later.

— But after "Dynamo" knocked out "Fenerbahce" in the Champions League quite recently, it seemed that Mircea Lucescu's wards should dominate and have a psychological advantage...

— In my opinion, in those previous confrontations with Fenerbahce, the Kyiv side had a fart, although for the sake of fairness, it should be said that in the rematch in Istanbul, the Kyiv team amused in overtime with their physical condition and willpower. However, it was felt that "Fenerbahce" drew the right conclusions from the defeat and added, while "Dynamo" slowed down. This can explain yesterday's actions of the Dynamo team. Probably, the six goals conceded in the last two rounds of the UPL championship were etched in their memory.

Unfortunately, yesterday the people of Kyiv also forgot that the match does not last 90 minutes. In stoppage time, they lacked concentration, after an elementary miscalculation in the back-up, they let two home players in at the same time near their goal and were punished. By the way, again our team conceded after playing a standard position. As you can see, we step on the same rake.

— What do you think of the return of midfielder Denys Harmash at the edge of the attack?

— You know, it's not even funny anymore... Because it's hard to imagine an ambitious team that is going to "shoot" in the European Cups without a qualified striker who, to begin with, was able to score at least 20 goals in the UPL championship.

And because of these personnel problems with the forwards, I would not like to criticize Mircea Lucescu. He has already squeezed the maximum out of the performers at his disposal. It's just that after Dynamo won the championship title, quality reinforcement was needed, which would allow progress. This did not happen, so the people of Dynamo ended up in the role of a miser who pays twice...

And if they are not lucky enough to quickly find a way out of this difficult situation, then the people of Kyiv cannot avoid bad results in the domestic arena as well.

Vasyl MYKHAILOV