Scotland - Ukraine - 3:0. Post-match press conference. Petrakov: "I look to the future with optimism"

Last Wednesday, the Ukrainian national team in the Nations League match lost away to Scotland — 0:3. Your attention is the post-match press conference of the head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleksandr Petrakov.

- Why did your team look different today than before?

- We did not have the main players who were injured, so I gave other players a chance to play. Zinchenko, Bushchan didn't play, Zabarny got an extra one... Trubin played well. I gave a chance to other performers, they played unsuccessfully.

In the first half, the team looked even more or less, and in the second we saw so much marriage... Our football is a little different from British. I warned the guys, told them about it. Yesterday, during training, I saw something wrong. I stopped the lesson, talked to them...

— Do you think that now Scotland has the highest chances of winning in the group?

- First, we will analyze the game. Nothing is lost yet. An important duel with Armenia is ahead. And in total we have two matches. I am optimistic about the future, we will do our best to take first place.

— Why did you replace Stepanenko during the break?

— He had a yellow card. I talked to him during the break, I decided to change.

- Could you comment on Bondar's game? Did you have a dilemma, whom to appoint - him or Krivtsov?

— There is always a dilemma. Bondar went to the "base" together with Matvienko. I decided to play with this lineup. Everything is decided by the head coach. The team wins, and one person loses - the head coach. It's my fault.

- Did you ask for the postponement of the UPL tour before the matches of the Ukrainian national team?

- I was talking about this because we play outside the house. There is a war going on in our country, do you know about it? We need to play a game, take a train or a bus. It's not like before, when we got on the plane and flew away.

- Will Anatoly Trubin remain at the disposal of the team?

— I made a decision, thanked him. He will go to help the youth team of Ukraine. He will also leave the location of the Kovalenko team. He had an MRI, he has an injury.