"Bologna vs Shakhtar - 0: 0. After the match. Marino Pušić: "We could not show our full potential on such a pitch"

Head coach of Shakhtar Donetsk Marino Pusic summarized the results of his team's 0-0 match with Italian side Bologna in the 1st round of the Champions League main stage yesterday.

"You saw for yourself that the pitch was very uncomfortable for the game, we could not show our full potential on such a lawn.

Nevertheless, as for our approach to the game, our strategy, which we followed from the beginning of the match, I believe that we worked hard - especially in finding free areas. And if we evaluate the match from the point of view of who won more, I think it's a tough one point that both teams won. So both teams can be satisfied.

It was a difficult game for us, and I tend to think that this is one point that we deserved, it goes more into our treasury of positive results.

By the 45th minute, we had to use two substitution slots, and given the unrealized penalty in the first minutes, it certainly hit the team and affected the course of events, so we had to look for additional moral resources to get out of the situation," said Pušić.