Famous Ukrainian coach Yuriy Vernydub shared his pre-match expectations about the game between Donetsk 'Shakhtar' and Warsaw 'Legia' in the Conference League.
«Considering what is happening now in 'Legia', I consider 'Shakhtar' to be the favorite in the upcoming game. You understand that something is clearly wrong with the Warsaw team when head coach Edward Iordanescu resigns, but it’s not accepted by the club... Surely, there is some conflict there, and it clearly affects the results.
The situation in 'Legia' now is almost like in 'Dynamo', which cannot win five matches in a row, and everyone writes about some quarrels, misunderstandings between the coach and the players and such... Such situations always interfere with football itself. On the contrary, everything is fine with 'Shakhtar'.
The loss of points in two consecutive matches is a coincidence. Regarding Turyan, we always tend to find all failures' reasons in the coach, but this is not entirely correct. The Donetsk team did not beat good, strong teams, not outsiders. And in general, there is now a very fierce struggle in the UPL. Just look at the tightness of the tournament table: the first place is separated from the tenth by only eight points. For us, people who watch UPL matches, this state of affairs looks interesting, doesn’t it?
What will be the score in the game in Krakow? »Shakhtar" will win. Maybe 1:0, maybe 2:0 — it doesn’t matter, they need to earn three points and points to the UEFA coefficient table," said Vernydub.