Head coach of Shakhtar Donetsk Igor Jovicevic expects his team to face tough matches in the final stretch of the current Ukrainian league season.
"I say again that now every game is like a final for us. Each match will be like the one with Kolos (3-1, in the 23rd round - ed.), with Minai, with Oleksandriya, and a head-to-head match with Dnipro-1 and Zorya. Each match of these seven 'finals' will be a stress zone. But we put ourselves in this stress zone because no one expected this from us at the beginning of the championship, as you know.
So I think it's a privilege to have come this far and to be able to achieve the highest goal that you have in your heart with seven rounds to go. And I think that mind and heart are two sides of the same coin. A gold medal," said Jovicevic.