Ihor Surkis: "Lucescu is a thing of the past. Shovkovskyi is doing his job well"

Dynamo President Ihor Surkis noted the good work of Oleksandr Shovkovskyi as acting head coach of the White and Blues.

- Kabaev finally scored. It took him 36 matches. So it's been a long time coming?

- Well, he had to score at some point. So he scored.

- Oleksandr Shovkovskyi scores after Mircea Lucescu. "Kryvbas was beaten in a dry spell, and now they also won without conceding a goal.

- They should play like this every game. Dedication should come first. Don't forget that we have a lot of injured players: Shaparenko, Yarmolenko, Popov, and Vanat has an injury. This all affects the game. And Shovkovskyi is doing his job well, he's a good man. He has to progress with the team, which he does. He has a very competent game. So we won, but we have to make up for what we lost.

- Last season, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi had a trial period as acting head coach of Dynamo Kyiv when Mircea Lucescu was undergoing treatment.

- Why do we need to recall what happened? The fact that Mircea was in hospital and Shovkovskyi was acting head coach? It's the past. Now he is also acting head coach. We will see how the team plays and progresses, and then we will decide something.

- We can already see the coach's improvements. There was an interesting move at the end of the Dynamo vs Rukh match when Kostiantyn Vivcharenko came on instead of Oleksandr Karavayev, and left-back Vladyslav Dubinchak went to play as a right winger in Karavayev's position.

- Yes, it is interesting. But this is the coach's initiative. This is how he sees football, and he has to do what will produce results. He performs his duties very well. He is an intelligent man and he still has everything ahead of him. In the matches against Kryvbas and Rukh, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi did an excellent job.

Nazariy SHMIGIL