On Saturday, April 8, in the match of the 20th round of the Ukrainian Championship, Dynamo Kyiv defeated Minai with a score of 2:0. 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:
- Why didn't Karavaev and Kabaev get into the application for the match today?
- Karavaev has an injury, he was out for three weeks. Kabaev was also injured, but so far we do not know how quickly he will return to duty.
— Are you satisfied with the performance of the central defenders?
- There's not even anything to talk about: they both play very well. There was only one mistake from them today, when Dyachuk passed the ball for 60 meters. But he realized his mistake. And so, both Popov and Dyachuk play well both positionally and on long-range balls.
- Will Samba Diallo get a chance after the end of the African Cup?
“It won’t be easy for him to come back. First, he has a minor injury. Secondly, it is difficult to count on a football player who dropped out of the team's training process for a month. But when Samba is ready, we will count on him. Football is the kind of game that you can't come and play right away if you've missed a whole month. We must be ready. We are counting on Diallo, but we need to give him time.
- Do Dynamo still have chances for gold medals in this championship?
— Dynamo is a club with traditions, history, it is a symbol of Ukrainian football. This team has no right to be without medals or without European cups. But I will repeat what I have already said more than once: we lost 14 players. The reasons were different - war, injuries, transfer policy. Zabarny, Mikolenko, Shaparenko, Verbich, Vitinho, de Pena, Besedin, Kendzer and so on. These are all key players. Many did not want to perform here because of the war. This is normal, as a human being I understand them: they have families, children. But we must understand that now we need time to rebuild the team. We give a chance to young people who are already approaching the level of the first team. We are moving towards our goal step by step.
Besides, you see how we are judged. I have not seen such biased refereeing in relation to any other team in this championship. We lost to the same Ingulets because of two critical mistakes by Ekaterina Monzul.
Or take the situation with Buyalsky. The match with Dnipro-1 was such that not only the intensity of the game, but also emotions were at a high level. And such emotions are understandable. A normal referee will remain silent in such a situation, even if the player says something about him. Three matches of disqualification for Buyalsky is too much, this should not have happened. This is our best player, they knew who was being punished.
But, I repeat, Dynamo cannot be in the place in the standings where it is now, and cannot demonstrate the level of play that we are now showing. We really look forward to the return of Buyalsky and Karavaev, these are our most experienced players. They will bring many benefits.
We have 10 more matches, so we continue to fight.
- What did you say to Tsarenko after today's game? And the second question: can Vanat become the main striker of Dynamo and the Ukrainian national team in the future?
- In order for these guys to reach the level of the first team, they first of all need to gain experience. And to gain experience, you need time, you need to make mistakes and learn from these mistakes, you need to play football. These guys are still gaining that experience. I think that by the age of 23-24 they will have already formed as first team players and we will see a new generation of Dynamo. I had a similar experience in other teams. In the same Shakhtar, we opened young Brazilians, and then they were sold to other clubs.
We are creating a young team, we need time to play at the level that Dynamo Kyiv should play.
Vladimir SHARAN, head coach of Minai:
- I would like to congratulate Dynamo on a well-deserved victory. We failed the first 20 minutes.
Then the guys got together, but conceded a goal. However, Dynamo could have scored against us earlier, taken the same Lonwijk moment, after which the ball hit the crossbar of our goal.
In the second half, we began to play more aggressively, began to meet the opponent higher, and, in principle, we had a good first 15 minutes. But Dynamo Kiev is Dynamo Kiev. Our opponent succeeded in getting out of the pressure. And then we got the second goal. After that, the match was actually played out, but at the very end, given the opportunities we had, I think we deserved to score one goal.
I congratulate Dynamo on a well-deserved victory, but we will prepare for the next match. All teams have different tasks, but I can say one thing: we prepare for each match equally carefully, without looking at the name of the opponent.
Alexander POPOV from the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky
