"Shakhtar risk being without Konoply for a long time

One of Shakhtar Donetsk's main defenders Efim Konoplya was injured at the very beginning of yesterday's round 15 match against Polesie (0-0) and may be out of the training process for a long time. This was announced by the Pitmen's head coach Marino Pusic.

"For us, of course, it was a bad moment, because you don't want to lose a foundation player after five minutes of the game. And I think Konoply's injury is serious, because he is a tough footballer and he won't come out of the game just like that.

We don't know exactly what the problem is, we'll probably find out more on Saturday. Things are not going well for him," Pushic was quoted by Shakhtar's official website.