Head coach of Dynamo Kyiv Oleksandr Shovkovskyi commented on the victory over Kryvbas (2-1) in the match of the 9th round of the Ukrainian championship on the broadcast.
- "Dynamo" started actively, and then calmed down...
- Calmed down... Let's be honest. Of course, this was a very important result for us, and we realized that it would be a very difficult game. First of all, all the teams led by Yuriy Mykolayovych play in a sharp attacking and forceful manner. We expected this kind of game and prepared our players for it. Secondly, our schedule was not easy, it took us two days to get to Kyiv, and we did not have time for a full recovery. We adjusted the players, disassembled the opponent. And in the first half, while we were still more or less fresh, we used our best practices. In the second half, it was more difficult for us, but it is clear why.
- How would you note the progress of the team's reserves - Rubchynskyi and Mykhaylenko?
- Not the reserves. I disagree with you. We realized that we would play a tight schedule, and from the very beginning of the season we gave the players more or less time to play, so that they were in a game tone and the load was more or less distributed among all the players. It will be impossible to pull it off with eleven or fifteen players! You also have to understand that those players who played for the Olympic team did not go through training camp with the team. We still had to look at these performers, because it's one thing to see them in other teams, and quite another to see them in the training process. I am satisfied with all our players, their attitude and desire. Of course, there are some problems. We lost Brazhko, who has echoes of a rib injury - not a fracture, but a crack, so to speak. In Germany, he also suffered an adductor muscle injury.
Recently, we could not count on Buyalsky and Yarmolenko. They missed several training sessions and could not play the whole match. Then we lost Pikhalenok, he has a rather complicated injury. I think that we will not see him on the field for at least three weeks, and possibly a month. Then he will need to catch up and get in shape.
If I counted solely on 11-12 players, it would be a problem for us. But we are constantly rotating, although all the guys want to play in every match. They are unhappy when they are not played, unhappy when they are changed. But we are a team, we have results. The strength of the team is in the thinnest ring of the chain - if it stops working, the whole machine will fail.
- Evaluate Guerrero' s adaptation.
- Guerrero is a very important player, he adds creativity to us. I think he and Vanat will have a great competition, they should complement and reinforce each other, which will allow everyone to grow.
- Could you please give us an update on Pikhalenko's injury?
- He has a calf gastrocnemius muscle. The examination showed 6 centimeters of damage. As far as I understand, this is the same problem as Zinchenko's.