Kyrylo Kovalets: "We were better than Shakhtar in this match"

Oleksandriya midfielder Kyrylo Kovalets spoke about his team's current prospects.

"There is potential for the development of the players of this team. There are a lot of youngsters now, although Oleksandriya used to be an adult team. They played aggressive football. And I still remember the time when we played like that. And now there is a completely different vector of football. If we look at the results, everyone wants to win. Every team and every player. Yes, we have few victories now.

But I'm sure that under Ruslan Petrovych's leadership, Oleksandriya is heading in the right direction.

Of course, when there are no victories, it does not bring us confidence. The same can be said about the first round, which was not outstanding. But now we had a very good training camp, played good sparring matches and had a good result. I think we need to do much better in the second round.

What is the goal of Oleksandriya? Well, what is the goal? Everyone can see where we are in the standings (11th place in the UPL standings - ed. note). Our task is to go out and win every game. We only need to play for victory. That's what we did with Shakhtar (0-0, but then a technical defeat - ed.) and Zorya (0-0 - ed.). I think we were better than our opponents in both games. So we just had to score a goal to win," Kovalets was quoted as saying by NV.