Minay defender Dmitry Nemchaninov summed up the results of his team's yesterday's match with Dynamo Kyiv (0:1) in the 5th round of the Ukrainian Championship.
- We were getting ready for a fighting game. The task was to be patient and wait for your moments. Because with a team like Dynamo, if you go headlong into the attack, then you can get captured. We fully adhered to the recommendations of the coaching staff. We acted on the defensive and waited for moments, and we had them. If we had used them, we could have achieved a positive result: if not victory, then at least a draw.
I think that this game was still mostly a draw. The Dynamo team probably will not agree with me, but it was clear from the game that they were nervous, because we also had many chances. Probably, even they did not have such moments in the whole game.
- Was the result of the meeting decided by the skill of Viktor Tsygankov?
- So and nothing else. Let someone else shoot from such a position so that the ball flies under the post... It is clear that he is a master. No wonder he plays in Dynamo, the vice-captain of the team and the Ukrainian national team. Many clubs are following him. This is the football class.
- Do you think Minay managed to surprise Dynamo? But in the first 20 minutes, the team created many scoring chances.
- I talked with Dynamo players. They themselves said that Lucescu set them up for a serious game and knows a lot about us. Consequently, they prepared and tuned in with responsibility. There was no disdain. There were no opinions that they would come to Minaj, close us in their half as amateurs, beat us and go to play in European competitions.