Dnipro-1 head coach Oleksandr Kucher summed up the results of yesterday's match between his team and Shakhtar Donetsk (2:1) in the 14th round of the Ukrainian Championship.
Alexander Kucher. Photo - scdnipro1.com.ua“It was an interesting match for which we were seriously preparing. Everyone understood that this was a first-round fight, and it was important. There were teams that love to play football. Everyone wanted to show a good game. The match was also important from the point of view of the standings.
The game turned out to be interesting, there were many moments and tensions. Mudrik needs to pay a lot of attention: in a situation with a goal conceded, he dragged the ball from the center of the field and scored. But the guys are great, because the team did not fall apart and continued to play positionally as we agreed. We scored two goals, we could have done more, we also played well with set pieces. Fart was somewhere on Shakhtar's side, but we scored in the second half, the game was under our control.
Shakhtar did not create many problems for us, but they are a good team. I repeat, we held on very well, we did not sit in the penalty area - thanks to the guys. This victory was very important and difficult for us.
We understood that we had a good team as rivals. Shakhtar is the grand of Ukrainian and European football, knows how to play football, excellent performers are gathered in the club. We were preparing for the Donetsk team to control the ball, but I don't think that today they had more ball possession than we did. This indicator was equal, because we also do not kick the ball forward and try to play football, which works out a little, ”Kucher said after the match with Shakhtar.
