On Saturday, September 14, in the match of the 6th round of the Ukrainian championship Dynamo Kyiv defeated Zorya Luhansk with the score 2:0. The match took place in Kyiv at the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy. Here is the post-match press conference of the head coaches of the teams.
Oleksandr SHOVKOVSKY, Dynamo head coach:
- I congratulate all Dynamo fans on the victory, thank you for this support that we had today. Although today we played an away match, but we played at our home stadium.
I would also like to thank the Ukrainian defenders and defenders for giving us the opportunity to play soccer and give positive emotions to the fans - such emotions are lacking now.
As for the game, of course, it is always difficult to play after national team matches, because many of our players have been away for a long time. During this period we trained with 12 field players in the squad.
In addition, we had some difficulties with the defenders, and therefore we had to make some rotation and put Brazhko on the position of defender. Popov continues to heal. As well as Mikhavko, but from tomorrow he should start to train fully and not individually.
We planned to release Seballos from the first minutes today, but, unfortunately, he had food poisoning the day before. He missed three days, and only yesterday he worked a little bit. Still, we released him at the end of the match to feel the atmosphere and the fact that he is an important part of our team.
- What is the condition of Dyachuk? When will we see him?
- We brought him into the application for today's match, given our difficulties with the defenders, but his condition is not at a good level yet. Dyachuk has started training, but he needs time to recover his physical and playing abilities. I think it will take him two weeks.
- Mikhaylenko got into the Dynamo starting lineup for the first time today. How do you evaluate his game?
- All our players understand perfectly well that they should be ready to take the field both from the very beginning of the match and in the course of the game. You have seen that as soon as we made substitutions today, we increased in speed, scored first the first goal, then the second.
Mykhailenko shows himself perfectly in the training process, I am satisfied with his attitude. However, this applies to all our players: all of them, except for the injured, are ready at any moment to take the field from the first minutes of the match.
Mladen BARTULOVIC, coach of Zorya:
- "Dinamo is Dinamo. They pressed us. In the first half we had a lot of good moments, in which we had to work more calmly with the ball. There were also a lot of good prerequisites for good attacks. In the second half Dynamo added more, made substitutions and pushed us. We conceded the first goal, a few minutes later - the second. So it was very difficult to correct something.
- What did your team lack for the second half? It was as if it was replaced at halftime...
- It was not replaced. Just Dynamo added more. Plus, our opponent made good substitutions. But our substitutions did not strengthen our game.
- Has the absence of players rented from Dynamo weakened your team a lot?
- I would not say so. We had enough players for substitutions. We expected that these substitutions would strengthen our game, but it did not happen.
But all the players from Dynamo are important for us, we count on them.
- When will it be possible to see Supriyaga on the pitch?
- I know him since Dnipro. He really wants to play, and I count on his help. And I want to help him very much myself.
Oleksandr POPOV from the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy
