The head coach of Donetsk «Shakhtar» Marino Pushich commented on his team’s victory over the Swiss «Young Boys» (2:1) in yesterday’s match of the 4th round of the group stage of the Champions League.
Marino Pushich«Overall, I am very satisfied with our performance: how we played and how diligently we worked in certain moments. I am very proud of my players and what they showed overall. They deserve great compliments for this game.
As I said, this is our problem — we make the game interesting until the very end, not converting our good moments. But we create them, and that is important. In many moments we come out and demonstrate quality football. I enjoyed the game from the sidelines, except for the last five minutes, but it was very interesting because the opponent has a lot of physical strength, plays very vertically, and tried to catch us with chaotic goals. But I will repeat: our team spirit, our speed of play were wonderful this evening, and I am very proud of this performance.
We were losing 0:1 due to an unfortunate moment when trying to build an attack from our own goal — that is what I wanted, so the blame is not on Bondarenko, but on me. If you want to blame someone, blame me, because I set such a task for my players. But after that moment, we actually continued to play as always, as we wanted: to play in the midfield and look for opportunities to score. And we quickly equalized in the same half where we were losing 0:1», — said Pushich.
