Defender of Luhansk Zorya Igor Kiryukhantsev summed up the results of the postponed match of his team with Dynamo Kyiv (0:3) in the 6th round of the Ukrainian championship, which took place yesterday in the capital.
Igor Kiryukhantsev. Photo — zarya-lugansk.com- Why Zorya failed to score points against Dynamo?
- It feels that Dynamo are well prepared. Especially physically. Our opponent played excellently in the centre of the pitch, where Brazhko stood out. Vova accelerated Dynamo's attacks. Perhaps, our newcomers did not realise what kind of match they were playing. This is an experience for them.
- Is the Croatian centre midfielder Bashic a reinforcement for Zorya?
- He is a destroyer. He should add play in attack, make long passes to the flank.
- Andriyevskyi opened the scoring in the 7th minute. Did it become more difficult?
- Yes, this missed goal broke our players. This goal is a turning point. Then Kabaev hit the corner of the goal.
- In your experience, was it possible to get back into the game, losing 0:2?
- Everything was real. Honestly. We had moments from the 46th to 56th minute, where we felt we could score. We pressed the opponent to their goal. But we had to score at least one goal. And at 0:3 everything became clear. Afterwards, we had no chances.
- Is this the worst game for Zorya in spring?
- I can`t answer so unequivocally. It was obvious that Dynamo were stronger than us. At the moment it is so.
- You have an away match with Dnipro-1 ahead....
- We have seen how Yuriy Maksimov's wards play. We need to tune up very seriously. We haven`t played with Dnipro-1 for a long time. We look at the standings - we need points to get away from the zone of transition games.
