Dynamo U-19 head coach Ihor Kostiuk commented on his team's 2-0 victory over Rukh U-19 in yesterday's youth championship match.
Igor Kostyuk. Photo - fcdynamo.com- First and foremost, we had to recover seven of our players who had returned from the national team training camp. We had just two days to bring them into proper condition. You saw that today they withstood everything, played two halves, and in general, our team outplayed the opponent tactically and physically, especially in the second half, and scored their goals.
Regarding the air raid, I would say that in the second half everything was going to go our way to score a goal. The siren, on the one hand, slightly interfered with this set-up, but on the other hand, it helped us to tell the guys even more tactical moments to implement in the game. We were able to score the two goals using this.
- The second and third teams in the standings met, did you feel any particular integrity and intransigence in the match?
- Rukh has one national team, and we have seven. We're talking about the team that won the championship last season, so there are probably questions about that. We paid off the debt for the last championship, in which Rukh won, no matter how they achieved it. But they have a really good team, compared to last season, the generation has changed a bit, and today we were stronger, which was confirmed by the game and the result.
- Today, Yanchyshyn played in a position that was not quite familiar to him - on the wing, but this did not prevent him from scoring. Are you satisfied with the way he did?
- Yes, Yanchyshyn did a lot of work today, he was useful in all phases - both in defence and attack. So the reward for him was a goal. We use Nazar both in the centre and on the left, so I wouldn't say that he had an unusual position.
- For what reasons were Matkevych and Kremchanin not in the matchday squad?
- Matkevych is recovering and will gradually train with us in the general group. And Kremchanin fell ill the day before. Yesterday at the pre-match training session, he dropped out of our line-up.
