Serhii Kravchenko, photo FC Polissia December 14, 2025, 09:36

Zhytomyr Polissia beat Lviv Karpaty in the sixteenth round of the Ukrainian Premier League the day before.

Polissia — Karpaty 3:2 Video of goals and review of the UPL match

After the game, the coach of “Wolves” Serhiy Kravchenko commented on the performance of his own team.

“We conceded two goals to make it more interesting. It’s a joke. But, really, the ending is very nervous. It’s understandable, 3:2, it’s a different psychology. But if we take the game itself, before our conceded goal, it was a very high-quality game, maybe one of our best games.

Fully controlled the match, created moments. The Carpathians were not allowed anything at all. Then this goal. This is also psychology.

We didn’t want to sit down, but the Carpathians also started to play very vertically. From central defenders, it’s simple, if I may say so, to hit the ball forward, pick up rebounds. This is also football. I’m not saying it’s bad, but we had a hard time with it.

I can’t say that they created a lot there, but what they created, they scored. And a nervous ending, unfortunately. Unfortunately, they conceded immediately after 3:0. If we had scored more, everything would have been much easier and we could have scored more.

Rotan’s help? He worked more tactically — he looked from above, gave hints. Then we directed the boys. These are working moments. They kept in touch by phone,” said the Ukrainian specialist.

In the next round, Zhytomyr Polissya will play away from Kovaliv Kolos.