Minaj's head coach Željko Ljubenović commented on his team's game against Veres in the 27th round of the Ukrainian championship.
"I have no strength to talk to the players. We'll talk when we get home. As for the game, we started well and scored a goal. And then that was it. It was over. The situation was similar in the match against Obolon in Kyiv. The players forgot everything we had agreed on - they just played their own game. They did not follow anything I demanded. We played until the first goal, and then my team was gone. I congratulate Veres on their well-deserved victory.
The reasons are in everyone, including me, I guess. Perhaps we are not ready for this level. If we had won, we could have moved up to 14th place. For the first time this season. Maybe we got scared somewhere. In one of the episodes, he said that we had to kick the ball out when one of the players was on the pitch. No, we play in the minority. Some players think that they are already big, they will play at Shakhtar or Dynamo. As a result, we conceded the second goal and the game ended. As for the penalty kick... Perhaps they don't want to see Minaj in the UPL. The ball hit the hand, but there was no handball. That's it.
This is probably our maximum this season. We have few chances for "survival" left: there are three rounds ahead, including two away games. We will fight to the end, I never give up. But we will not achieve anything with such a game. Because we need to stick to what we talked about in the locker room. We will try to get the most out of the next games. You can play with every opponent," the official website of Minaya quoted Liubenovic as saying.
Успіху!