“The coach of the Kharkiv team is upset after the draw with the UPL debutant.”, — write: football.ua
The coach of the Kharkiv team is upset after the draw with the UPL debutant.
Mladen Bartulovich, FC Metalist 1925 October 21, 2025, 5:39 p.m
“We are a little disappointed with the result. It was an unfortunate loss of points. I think that we could have won, because we had enough chances, but the ball somehow did not want to go into the goal. I think the match was interesting, Kudrivka also played well at times. We knew that they would have counterattacks. They scored this goal, you could say, from the first kick and the game changed a little. But we tried to press, scored the first goal, could have scored the second goal and win this match. But there is a draw and we accept this score.
We wanted to increase the tempo, but that’s football, that’s their tactic that worked. What can we do here? There are judges who can regulate it a bit. But this is Kudrivka’s tactic, which they chose – to lie on the lawn. They got one point, so I think they’re happy.
Mba has an injury and missed this match. Yes, of course, in such matches you want to add fresh players in front and press the opponent. Itodo played well. He did a lot of work, as you said, a lot of useful work for the team in pressing and with the ball as well.
Everything was fine with the collections, because they had enough time to recover. You can say that it was a week. It was five days, so they were enough and they worked to the maximum, as usual,” Bartulovich’s words are quoted by the club’s press service.
On Football.ua a video review of the match Kudrivka — Metalist 1925 is available for viewing.