On Monday, November 21, in the match of the 14th round of the Ukrainian Championship, Dynamo Kyiv defeated Veres Rivne with a score of 1:0. The meeting was held in Kyiv at the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky. Your attention is the post-match press conference of the head coaches of the teams.
Mircea Lucescu. Photo — Y. YuryevMircea LUCHESCU, Dynamo head coach:
— Today your team took 14 corners, but we never saw any goals after these set pieces. What is it connected with?
“That worries me too. I spoke on the bench about this. In this championship, we have already taken more than 80 corners. I often tell the guys: to score after set pieces, you need to have quality. They have quality. More courage is needed. It is necessary to more boldly go into the fight with an opponent in order to win a dispute over the ball from him. We lack this courage, courage. Not only in standard positions. We must return this courage. Popov had it today. But lately, he has lost the skill of meeting with the ball. But Zabarny and Sirota need to improve, because they are not good enough in the penalty area with set pieces.
In the first year after my arrival at Dynamo, we played such set pieces, played an extra player against the opposing team, we got these combinations and we scored. But the opponents have already studied us well, they pull up more of their players at corners in order to prevent us from holding such draws.
We need good serve, fight. We need to act more boldly in the penalty area in these situations. We now have good ball control and we create many chances, but the last pass does not reach the addressee. This moment worries me.
In my time, they said: a corner is 90 percent a goal. Then the distance between the players were greater. Yes, they played differently. Now, of course, things are different.
Yuri Virt. Photo — Y. YuryevYuri VIRT, Veres head coach:
- First of all, I would like to congratulate Dynamo on the victory. It turned out to be a fighting game. In the first half, we acted in an organized and disciplined manner in defense. Before the goal, Dynamo did not have a single moment at our goal. But then we created such a moment for ourselves. After an unsuccessful out, the performance of Tsygankov decided, as it turned out, the fate of the match.
Having conceded a goal, we began to play more aggressively, began to put pressure on the opponent, had good possession of the ball, but as such, we did not create scoring chances in the first half.
During the break, I asked the guys to continue playing in the same vein. And in the second half we had two chances. At first, Dakhnovsky missed the goal, then there was a successful set piece.
At the end of the match, Dynamo, of course, had an advantage, since we began to play adventurous football, we wanted to equalize. In this situation, Dynamo could have scored a second goal for us, but Kogut came to the rescue.
I have no complaints about the team. The guys gave all their strength and carried out the installation for the match. Such an opponent needs to score, and counting on 0-0 in matches with giants is very difficult. Today we did not score goals. It’s hard for us to do this precisely in matches against the Gands, we can’t open their defense. But I have no complaints about the results of today's match with our defense either. We played at the right level.
— You played against Shakhtar and Dynamo. Compare these two commands.
- The same matches turned out for us. Both in terms of the game and the result, even though we lost to Shakhtar even 0:2. Our individual mistakes affect the result. And so we defend ourselves reliably. Here today: an elementary out, but a mistake, and in 10 seconds a goal. The same thing happened with Shakhtar: goals were conceded after individual errors. The class of football players of the opponent is higher, that's undeniable. We could count on something in these matches due to the organized play in defense and high-speed attacks.
In defense, I repeat, we played well. But you still have to work on the attack. To create chances and, moreover, to score goals. Today we had a moment and a half. Dakhnovsky had to score. And we would see how the situation would develop if the score was equal. To take points from the giants, we must score goals.
Alexander POPOV from the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky
