Well-known manager and expert Vyacheslav Zakhovailo shared his impressions of the match of the 4th round of the 2024/25 Nations League Ukraine - Czech Republic (1:1), which took place yesterday in Wroclaw.
Vyacheslav Zakhovaylo"It is still necessary to manage to draw with such an unconvincing Czech Republic. Soucek, Zoufal, Borjil - they all rusted out of old age a year ago. Misha Mudryk can overtake them with his front steps.
I wonder why they are so stupid to prepare analytics for Rebrov? Gleb Platov, are you blind or deaf? Nothing personal, I'll justify it for the love of art.
Let me start with the Ukraine national team's build-up. We play hole-in-one in our own penalty area. Show me a cut of at least five episodes where the national team was able to quickly regroup into attack after that? What is the benefit of this? You say beautiful, modern soccer? For pragmatic experts, this way of playing from the goal serves to cut off a group of pressing players, and create open spaces for a quick transition to attack at speed. Has it ever worked for you? So what's this nonsense for? We're only causing ourselves problems.
That's the STD that De Dzerby brought to our soccer. It's pure adventurism. But it continues under the guise of Spanish style. Soon we will start to play this way not in the penalty area, but in the goalkeeper's area. Which, in principle, today I saw. You chew the ball slowly, waiting for the opponent to move away and organize the defense in a block. In the game of soccer, the most expensive thing is time, space, and the speed of getting the ball to the killing zone.
In the transition phase, with half-open spaces, our players have a clear speed advantage on the flanks. Can't you see that, analysts? All the experts talk about problems with standards and rebounds at our goal. What do you do at the clubs? Who taught Konoplya to play the ball to the center in front of the penalty area? What were Shaparenko and Sudakov doing on the rebound? Answer: picking their noses. So we got 0:1 from the Czechs on the spot.
I don't know what prevented Shaparenko from hitting an empty net in the fifth minute. Probably, the ball hit a bump....
Come down to earth, think, analyze. If you can, of course. I apologize for my emotions. I couldn't take it anymore.
Good luck to everyone! Glory to Ukraine!", - wrote Zakhovaylo on his page in the social network Facebook.
