Yuriy Gabovda, acting sporting director of Rivne's Veres, told us whether the future of Lavrynenko's coaching staff is in jeopardy.
Yuriy Gabovda (photo: nkveres.com)- Of course, the psychological state of the team cannot be good in such a situation. Everyone understands this perfectly well. I myself was an active player yesterday, so I understand it perfectly well. I see the guys at training every day. They are working hard, but now is a difficult stage. If we can overcome it, I am sure that things will go better in the future.
Apart from the first match against Polissia, which was a real disaster, we played a constructive and interesting game, but there was no result, and not many goals were scored. This eventually starts to put pressure on the players. Everyone starts digging into themselves, why the ball doesn't go in the net, as they say. When we received our Wyscout scores, we had extremely good results. We were among the top three teams in the UPL in all indicators. However, without goals scored, there are no results and no victories. Therefore, this is probably the first factor that put pressure on the players: "What is it that we can't win one, two, three games in a row?" It's all in the head, it's psychology. That's why we need to fix this point.
We are watching our young people. Shandruk is working very well with the U-19s, we see it from match to match. This is confirmed by the signing of some young players, and there are a number of players we want to see in our team. Young people will join the team because they are fresh blood. However, we must not forget that we are waiting for the winter, the transfer window, and we will also work there and look for legionnaires, but they must be of really high quality," Gabowda was quoted as saying by UPL TV.
