Mykola Nesenyuk: "The Scottish national team gave our players and coaches at least three lessons"

Famous journalist Mykola Nesenyuk - about the defeat of the Ukrainian national team against Scotland (0:3) in yesterday's Nations League match.

"The Scottish football team, which defeated Ukraine yesterday with a score of 3:0, taught our football players and coaches at least three lessons.

The first is to fight for every ball in every part of the field from the first to the last minute, without stopping for a moment and not giving the opponent a second to think, instead of walking around the field, citing fatigue and "not enough time to prepare."

The second is to get into duels hard, not giving the opponent even a centimeter of advantage, and not falling after every touch, faking injuries and trying to "draw" a free kick or a penalty kick for one's own benefit or a yellow card for the opponent.

The third - after scoring the winning goal, do not go back to delay the final whistle, but even more actively attack the confused opponent, trying to quickly score the second, third, fourth...

This is what allowed the Scottish team, made up of fairly mediocre players, to literally trample the Ukrainian team into the lawn, the individual players of which agents and journalists cannot put a price on.

When we learn these lessons and play like the Scots, we're sure to succeed! And it is needless to say that nobody plays like that in our country and nobody judges like that in our country. You have to try and everything will be fine.

And then the agents' stories that dozens of Europe's leading clubs are lining up for Mudryk and are ready to pay crazy millions for his transfer will not look like a bad joke. And not funny at all. Because after yesterday's game, it's not funny at all.

Well, of course, Kovalenko was sorely missed..." Nesenyuk wrote on his Facebook page.