Well-known journalist Serhiy Tyshchenko talks about the "March coach" of the Ukrainian national team.
"The coach of the national team of Ukraine is a matter of a person who will take the blame for the defeat against England.
I am categorically against it being Ruslan Rotan. Ruslan Petrovych is still a young coach, his reputation is important to him. Despite his success with the youth team, he has plenty of haters. The main thing in this story is that Rotan is a systematic coach with his own vision of football. His youth team did not immediately start playing. Now a new team is being formed in Oleksandriia and a new game is being staged. Failures at the beginning of the second round will not be a sensation.
The national team needs a motivator who will make the players believe in a positive outcome of the match against England. Ukraine will play as the second seed. The team composition is already obvious today: Trubin - Karavayev, Zabarnyi, Matvienko, Mykolenko - Stepanenko, Zinchenko, Malinowski - Yarmolenko, Dovbyk, Mudryk. Only injuries can make changes.
I believe that Igor Jovicevic is the number one candidate here. Jovi is a great psychologist and motivator. He knows how to create a good dressing room. Moreover, the tactics involve playing from the defence. Igor knows perfectly well how to use Mudryk's strengths. The coach himself and Shakhtar will not mind a short-term job. Moreover, Igor is very close to Rebrov in terms of his vision of football. Serhiy Stanislavovych offered him a job as an assistant in Ferencvaros.
Jovićević talks a lot to his players about patriotism, making them warriors of the football front. This is an opportunity to prove it.
This option is realistic if the UAF wants to hope for success against the English, and not just play a match," Serhiy wrote on Facebook.