– I take responsibility for today’s game. We wanted to take the result. Let’s take the positive: if we had won, we would still have reached the 1/16 finals. It was important to go further, because I consider this tournament important. This defeat is completely mine, I repeat. I thought this tournament could help everyone get playing minutes. We misread this game, maybe because we were already thinking about the championship.
– Did you find an explanation why the players had such an approach?
– I think I also put them in a difficult position today, thinking about resting some players for Sunday. But now there is no peace, there are many banal and technical errors. And then you react only after conceding a goal. Then I think that in the last two matches with “Dynamo” and “Verona” there were good performances. The players must concentrate on the decisive match – the championship. And for today, we prepared some moments that they could not realize.
– Will you stay at the base? And are you angry about the exit of Gudmundsson and others?
– We are at the base and will remain here until we win, for an indefinite period of time. I’m not mad at an individual player, I’m mad at the team. We all made mistakes and the responsibility for this game is largely mine.
– Were you a little self-confident today?
– I take responsibility for today, but now there can be no excuses from Udinese, this team must eat the opponent, because after Sunday there is no way back.
I take responsibility, because maybe with my starting form I gave a reason to think that today’s match is not of great importance. Against Udinese, it should be the match of a lifetime, absolutely.
– Are you worried that you do not see your hand in the team’s game?
– I am very worried. During this month, I saw my hand only partially: sometimes it disappears, and then it appears again. Sometimes I hate not seeing my character and my spirit in the match. Then the game goes and returns.
Source: sport.ua