The well-known commentator Viktor Vatsko shared his opinion on the quality of play of Dynamo defender Christian Bilovar.
"You don't play football for free. If we talk about the match against Lazio, the phrase "Dynamo's level" is not something to be proud of. I think so. I'll tell you my opinion about Bilovar, and, looking ahead, I think this opinion will be unpopular and will not be liked by those who are already trained to judge a football player only by his son-in-law status, by his non-football status, you know?
I watch all of Dynamo's matches this season. And I can say that Bilovar is a perfectly normal midfield defender for the Ukrainian championship. He is textured, fights well for the ball, plays with his head. By the way, I would not say that he is slow, I would not say that he has no speed at all. Yes, he doesn't look confident with the ball. Yes, the first pass, the start of the attack - there are questions about this. There are questions about the quality of positional play. Well, in my opinion, if he had played in a conditional Zorya, LNZ, Vorskla, if he had not been the son-in-law of Ihor Surkis, I am sure that he would have been perceived simply as a good central defender of a Ukrainian Premier League club. A good center back. But Bilovar is a football player for Dynamo Kyiv.
I'll tell you now how I perceive him as a player of Dynamo Kyiv. I perceive him as the fifth central defender in the hierarchy of Dynamo Kyiv. The fifth is Popov, Mykhavko, Dyachuk, and Ceballos. Based on what we have seen this season, they are above Bilovar in Shovkovskyi's choice. And, in my opinion, as for the level of the fifth defender in the hierarchy of the football team, Bilovar is more than a worthy candidate. He is a homegrown player, and we didn't need to spend any money on his acquisition. I think his salary is not worth all the millions in the world. This season, if we take the UPL matches in which he played, he played at the proper level. I don't know what he can be criticized for so globally, where he made mistakes, where he "brought it", as it was in the previous season. This season, there was no such thing. I'm talking about the Ukrainian Premier League matches," Vatsko said in his author's program on Youtube.