The head coach of Kyiv’s Dynamo, Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, commented on the broadcast of the final of the Ukrainian Cup against “Shakhtar”.
Oleksandr Shovkovskyi (photo: Oksana Vasyliieva)— If we talk about the game, it was, in principle, equal. I think the fans enjoyed it. We did not achieve the desired Cup in the penalty shootout, but that’s how it goes. I only thanked the players for their attitude. We will move on, it is very important for us to recover before the match of the Ukrainian championship against “Chornomorets”.
— Post-match penalties are a lottery. But how was it decided who would go first?
— We had some issues. Some players said they couldn’t even… They lacked strength. They decided the order themselves. In principle, they took them well, but this is how it turned out.
— You approached Karavaev after the game...
— He did his job, but... We prepared, studied, but nerves played a cruel joke on us.
— Couldn’t it have been avoided to go to penalties?
— In the end, Denys Popov got injured and asked for a replacement. We already saw that everything was heading towards a shootout. It was important to finish without mistakes. Because the mistake we made, allowing a counterattack in the second half when we conceded, played a very important role.
