Viacheslav Fridman: "Dynamo and Shakhtar change five players during a match. Dnipro-1 does not have such an opportunity"

Vyacheslav Fridman, Commercial Director of Dnipro-1, explained why Yuriy Maksymov's team is not performing well in the second part of the Ukrainian championship.

"According to Maksymov, we lacked an internal reserve. I agree with his point of view. "Dynamo and Shakhtar change five players in league matches and turn the game around. We do not have such an opportunity.

Dnipro-1's leading players are plagued by injuries. We started the championship without Svatko, Lednev, Pikhalenok was just starting to get fit. Then Pikhalenok, Filippov and Tretyakov were out for a long time due to injuries. Kohut has not yet fully recovered. Sarapiy, Adamyuk and other leading players missed matches due to card counts. The Brazilians we were counting on left us right after the training camp. After two matches, Kravets left.

They say that we did not strengthen the team in the winter off-season, but we were counting on our Brazilians. Maksymov said they were fine and would help us. But the Brazilians were afraid of the hits near the base in Dnipro and left.

Then it was too late to sign anyone. It turned out that our team was understaffed for the second round. Rusol tried to sign several Ukrainians at the close of the transfer window, but they chose other clubs. Given the shelling of Dnipro, we didn't even try to sign legionnaires," Friedman said.