On Sunday, December 1, in the match of the 15th round of the Ukrainian championship, Kyiv’s «Dynamo» played to a 1:1 draw away against Kovalivka’s «Kolos». The match took place in Kovalivka at the «Kolos» stadium. Here is the post-match press conference of «Dynamo» head coach Alexander Shovkovsky, which this time was held in a flash interview format.
— Did you expect such pressure from «Kolos»? How do you feel after such a result?
— Let’s start from the beginning. What kind of pressure?
— In terms of the moments created by the opponent.
— We understood perfectly well that the opponent had a week to prepare for this match, and we only had two days.
There are matches when the ball just doesn’t go into the net. In this case, a rebound led to an unnecessary goal into our net.
In the second half, we increased our speed, we had scoring opportunities, and at the end of the match — we actually had three clear chances to score, we should have scored, but unfortunately, we couldn’t do it.
We lost two important points. But we always find it difficult to play in Kovalivka. We will prepare for the next match.
— Now «Dynamo» and «Alexandria» are level on points. They are direct competitors for first place, and your team has two consecutive matches ahead against the Alexandrians. It’s probably not even worth mentioning how important these matches are?
— You are absolutely right.
Alexander POPOV from the stadium «Kolos»
