The head coach of Metalist 1925 U-19 Kharkiv Roman Melnik talks about the match with Dynamo U-19 Kyiv (0:3) in the 15th round of the youth championship.
Roman Melnyk“Today we failed to resist Dynamo. We did not have enough players who had previously received red cards. These are the main team players, and today the players who played in these positions failed to replace them. Therefore, we did not have a good game in the center of the field. Failed to create enough chances.
Well, we conceded goals. Two of them, one might say, on errors. Especially the third goal - they scored it themselves, and the second one too. The players of Dynamo are individually strong, they beat our two players, they shot, the goalkeeper made a little mistake...
Game in the arena? It didn't play a big role. The most important thing is that our players are a little burnt out. They didn't play the way we planned. So this is the result. I would like our players to play better in attack. Although we also had moments today.
Well, I probably don't comment on the referee's actions. However, it was probably possible to give a red card to the Dynamo player who, after the whistle, threw the ball in the back of our player. With the score 1:0, we could possibly turn the game around. But it means that today we did not earn enough to win. We will work harder in training.
Probably, today we are not yet able to resist Dynamo. I hope that in the second round we will play better and win,” Melnik said.
