Serhii Nagornyak: "I wanted not only Shakhtar to score points in the national standings"

In the second round of the Europa League group round, "Dynamo" will play against AEK of Cyprus. With his expectations from this match Team 1 shared the former midfielder of the national team of Ukraine Serhiy Nagornyak.

— We really want to hope that the victory in the championship against Lviv will help Mircea Lucescu's wards to regain their fitness, primarily psychological. No one remembers "Dynamo" losing five matches in a row. After all, we saw how the Kyivans played and fought in the Champions League qualification matches against the Turkish Fenerbahce and the Austrian Sturm. Therefore, I repeat, all of us are waiting for a positive result in the upcoming meeting.

— Or not Dynamo's biggest problems in attack?

- Exactly. So far, there is no striker who could decide the fate of the match. In general, there are very few such forwards everywhere, but Dynamo has a very acute problem with this deficit.

— In the Europa League match against Fenerbahce, Mircea Lucescu decided to punish the forwards by not letting them on the field?

— After all, the mentor sees that one attacker comes out, the other, and the coefficient of useful actions in both is zero. Of course, in such a situation, the coach has to react in some way... In Dynamo, in general, this problem has not gone anywhere in recent years.

— In addition to the victory ofen othersth the result in the game with the Cypriots "Dynamo" is not satisfactory?

- So. I wanted not only Shakhtar to score points in the country's ranking. Ukraine is also waiting for a positive result from Dnipro-1. It will be interesting to see how the Dnipro football players will react to the latest failures in the match against Apollon.

— What will be your prediction for this match?

— 2:1 in favor of the guests. But any win, even 4:3, 5:4, will be a balm for the soul of all Ukrainians in such a difficult time. Wounds heal faster after victories.

Serhii DEMYANCHUK