The head coach of Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih, Yuriy Vernydub, responded to a journalist's accusation that the referees were sympathetic to his team.
- Well, let's see! Have we had many sympathisers over the 17 rounds? And if we are talking about the second round, he must know something. Let him reveal this secret to me, because I'm very curious. And I have a different answer to that. And I know which clubs are going to step up and really work on the referees. I think I can guess which clubs it will be better than he can. "Kryvbas plays what it can and what it knows how to do. The club has never worked and will never work with referees. The game is even more interesting when the referees do not help, but judge what it is. If it is there, then it is there. If it is not there, then there is no need to invent it," NV quoted Vernydub as saying.