Igor Tsyhanyk: "We started playing what I asked for, and focusing on what we do best — preventing others from playing football"

Famous commentator Igor Tsyhanyk commented on the minimal defeat of "Dynamo" against "Roma" in the match of the 3rd round of the main stage of the Europa League.

"Good defeats or bad defeats — that’s a very subjective story. The result is negative. You lost, hit the goal once, and the people of Ukraine should be proud of you? For what? For what you should do on the football field and to create intrigue? Defeats are defeats. It's bad.

We started playing what I asked for. We started focusing on what we do best. Preventing others from playing football. We do this brilliantly. And this is also a tactic. We have returned to the 90s. Shovkovskyi returned to his career when he started as a player for "Dynamo".

This is how we played in the European Cups in the 90s. This is how we defeated "Barcelona" 7:0. This is how we beat "Real". This is the style we play. To defend in such a way as not to allow an advance and to break into counterattacks. This is our football. We have to develop it. We don’t have Brazilians like Fernandinho, Tyson, Shakhtar or Douglas Costa. We don’t have Kalynych, Ideye, Mbokani.

We need to play simple, working-class, rural football. And we do that. The strategies of "Shakhtar" and "Dynamo" in their recent European matches have been the same. It was necessary to try to defend at the beginning, and then go for a counterattack at the end and try to score.

In both cases, there were chances to avoid defeat. And that's normal. This football needs to be trained. The same mistake of Mykhavka — it’s all experience. Players must be prepared for such situations," said Tsyhanyk on his authorial program on YouTube.