– You were recognized as the best player of August in the UPL, now you are aiming for the title of the best player already in September, right?
– This is motivation, I work. Many thanks to the team, as Ruslan Babenko said, that he wears a grand piano, and we are already thinking of something. These are all jokes, first of all, I am very grateful to the team, partners, coaching staff, fans.
– 6 goals and 3 assists – the best start of the championship in your career, remember?
– Of course. It couldn’t have been better, it’s the best start, but you can’t stop. We must set ourselves the highest tasks.
– The start of this match was not successful, you can tell – Why?
– Why did it fail? We played against a quality team, with “Veres” it is very difficult to play, because there is a lot of struggle. This first goal that we missed… Cross, fight… “Veres” football player won this fight, scored a goal – well done, but it was a blow to the head for us to wake up a little. Then we had moments, and during the break the coach said that it was necessary to improve. I think in the second half we did everything the coach asked us to do.
– It turned out that “Veres” was very established?
– Yes, you didn’t think so. It was very noticeable on the field and today it was very difficult to play against them.
– I will also note that the match turned out to be very traumatic: Chobotenko, in the end Smolyakov.
– This is proof that the game was a combat game. There was a lot of struggle, our guys did well. Today it will hurt, but tomorrow it won’t.
– In the second half, the team came out charged, will you explain the reason for this?
– Of course, we were losing and we wanted to turn the game around, especially since we were playing at home. We wanted our fans to be happy for the team, for the football players today, so we had no other choice but to win.
Source: sport.ua