Oleksandriya head coach Yuriy Gura talks about a draw with Shakhtar Donetsk (2:2) in the 10th round of the Ukrainian Championship.
“You don’t even need to set up guys for such games. Against such teams as Dynamo and Shakhtar, they set themselves up and play with a special enthusiasm, demonstrating good football and their high class.
As for the match against Shakhtar itself, I am very pleased with it. I watched this game in the record, and I really liked it. If someone had told me before the match that there would be a draw, I would have agreed. At the same time, with the score 2:2, there was a feeling of understatement - of course, I wanted to win.
After a quick goal by Tsurikov, they thought about how to keep the victory. But then we were hit by an air raid, during which we sat in the locker room for an hour and a half. When we returned to the field after her lights out and conceded the ball, some kind of devastation appeared in my soul. And after a few minutes there was a break in the match, and I wanted to set the guys up so that they would not stop and try to score again.
And when we conceded the second goal in the 81st minute, it was very annoying. Although at the same time I had an inner feeling that we still had to score. And when this happened, there was even confidence that we would score one more goal. Did not have enough time. You probably saw for yourself that this game was the best in terms of moments. There were a lot of them - at Shakhtar, and at us. It was a spectacular game! I repeat: when I looked at it in the recording, I enjoyed it, ”said Gura.