Defender of Kyiv’s Dynamo Taras Mihavko summarized yesterday’s away match of his team against Zhytomyr’s Polesie (0:0) in the 28th round of the Ukrainian championship on the YouTube channel FootballHub.
Taras Mihavko. Photo — Yu. Yuriev— You came on in the final stages of this match. I’m curious about your condition, since you missed the last round due to a muscle injury.
— No, I had an ankle injury (as reported by Dynamo.kiev.ua and mentioned in their insider, — ed.). Of course, it was difficult because I missed a certain amount of time, more than a week. It’s always hard to come back after injuries, but this is football, and I am working to get my condition back as soon as possible to help the team. Today, it somehow didn’t work out. But it’s okay, such matches also happen.
In the end, when you came on, “Dynamo” began to put more pressure on the opponent, there were long passes. I understand that you had an instruction from the coach to “load” the ball into the penalty area more.
Well, not just “load.” Of course, there was a task to play forward and move with the ball. Those were the instructions. But it wasn’t to just hit somewhere for the sake of hitting — such a thing wasn’t there.
— Did you initially know that you would come on as a substitute today?
— It wasn’t such that the coach told me I would definitely come on: I had to be ready. In football, different things happen. Sometimes it happens that you have to come on unexpectedly. The main thing for me is that I got playing time today. Of course, I am happy about that.
Now we will prepare for the final of the Ukrainian Cup.
