The former Shakhtar defender Oleksandr Kucher explained why the Donetsk team currently has minus 10 points from the leader — Dynamo in the Ukrainian championship.
— In UPL, Shakhtar dominates over its opponents. Even in the match against Dynamo in Kyiv (1:1), it was the miners who looked better. Before Kryskiv's red card, Shovkovskyi's team barely crossed its half of the field for 60 minutes.
However, Shakhtar has lost quite a few points in UPL because they approached some matches somewhat languidly. This is a problem at the psychological level, the right mindset for matches. I do not want to belittle either Dynamo or any other Ukrainian club, but in terms of player level, Shakhtar is head and shoulders above all, they have no equals. They just need to remove this sloppiness — and the results will come even without reinforcements, — Kucher said.