Even a hypothetical separation in 7 points (although Kryvbas has only to win, and there are three points at all in the pocket! Bosnian Marino Pushich.
It is not surprising that there were many judges in December and January on the topic of whether Rinat Akhmetov will decide to release Pushich in the middle of the season to try to remedy the situation in the UPL and return to the championship race. However, the President of the Miners did not take the cardinal steps, and the winter pause itself for Shakhtar, first of all, because of the need to restore the Champions League, was unusually short. This may not have been the best moment for dramatic changes. At least that’s the way the logic of the Miners’ leadership decisions then perceived the majority of fans of “orange-black”.
And in the press in the winter pause, the ability of Dynamo was actively discussed by the championship race and not to lose their eyebrow over the main one (let the author “Alexandria” forgives, for which such warnings can and are only obliged to become additional motivation, so that in the future they simply occur.) Indeed, after synchronous victories in the 18th round, when Dynamo coped with the Carpathians (2-0), and Shakhtar defeated the Left Bank (1: 0), the first failure of Alexander Shovkovsky’s wards occurred. Already in the 19th round, the people of Kiev could not beat “Vorskla” (1: 1), but “Shakhtar” confidently smashed “Alexandria” (3: 0), reducing the lag from the first place to 8 points with the prospect of further reduction to 5 (taking into account the same underworked match).
But in the 20th round, Shakhtar Marino Pushich returned the Burgok to the people of Kiev. At a time when Dynamo was soothing, but still victory over the LNZ (2: 1), the Miners lost points in the game with Kryvbas (1: 1), which made a 10 points for 10 points for the White-Blue in the standings. And in the 21st round, Dynamo again lost points, giving a chance to a principled opponent. This time, the people of Kiev did not cope with Zorya (2: 2), but the Marino Pushich team left the field for a few hours, and failing to break the Carpathian resistance (0-0).
In other words, in the spring, Dynamo has already lost 4 points, that is, almost all of its key head start over the opponent. After all, if Shakhtar beat Kryvbas and then the Carpathians, now his gap from Kyivans would be 6 points. At the same time, in the case of another victory over the Kryvorizhians in the unamravan duel of the first circle, the lag of “orange-black” from “white-blue” would be reduced to 3 points in general, and this will play a simple victory in the full-time duel of the teams, which is scheduled at the end of April in the 26th round.
What many experts have warned in the winter about the instability of Dynamo results, in fact, happened. The people of Kiev really did everything that the intrigue in the championship races again played with fresh paints, but Shakhtar wasted a similar perspective, and after a draw with the Carpathians to the Avenue, Marino Pushich, who stated that the Miners had lost their chance.
Such words of Shakhtar head coach, given the ambitiousness of the club’s presidential, as well as the fact that 9 rounds (that is, at least 27 points will be played by the end of the championship by the end of the championship, were still made not differently than a call for Rinat Akhmetov. Instead of continuing their usual mantras about the quality of the team and at least promising to fight for “gold” to the last, Pushich publicly acknowledges that he does not see the opportunity to defend the championship title in the current season.
Yes, someone can say that Pushich resorted to the so -called “games of the mind”, that is, thoughtful psychological pressure on a rival whose purpose is to force football players and the coaching headquarters of Dynamo to relax, to believe in advance in their ability to take the championship title, and as a result.
But it looks too thin for Pushich. The Bosnian is unlikely to be capable of such, and not the fact that it would give him something and his ward, given the above spring, Dynamo, which have already taken place, but which the Marino team failed to use.
Shakhtar seems to be ready to be satisfied with the present, and Pushich’s statement about the fight for the second place is only confirmed. Even in the last match of the Championship against the Carpathians (0-0), the Donetsk people did not look like a team that necessarily want to victory. Yes, let the modern “Dynamo” full of personnel and tactical problems, however, what the ward of Shovkovsky will not refuse, then it is in dedication and the desire to fight until the latter. So it was in the match against the LNZ, when only a happy event allowed the people of Kiev to victory, so it was in the match against the Dawn, which the Dynamo people tried to squeeze, but could not.
And yet that the 21st round of the 21st round, when Dynamo and Shakhtar, have lost their points, it is the intensity of attacking actions. If “white and blue” rolled one attack on the Luhansk gates by another (now we are not talking about their quality, but at least simply about the ability to press intensively on the opponent), then here “orange-black” moments looked like a team of 40-year-old veterans who came to play. It is difficult to say, not knowing the process from the inside, but there is still a feeling that even Shakhtar physically football players are ready for the second part of the championship worse than their visa from Dynamo.
FC Shakhtar But there is another factor that is definitely worth talking about. This is motivation. And here it is important to distinguish that after the renewal of the Dynamo Championship is always (an interesting small detail that cannot be ignored!) Has spent their matches before Shakhtar’s duels. That is, when the Miners were already going to the field in their matches, they knew (at least they could know) how they played their key opponent in the struggle for the championship. And, given the masters of “white-blue”, it is difficult to understand what kind of motivation it was necessary to give “miners” to “tear and throw” to take the next three points and get closer to Dynamo. But even in this situation, Marino Pushich failed to invest in his ward the importance of the result and squeeze out of them the maximum that would allow on Blide to the team of Shovkovsky de facto at the distance of one victory.
Now let’s remember one of Rinat Akhmetov’s rare public appeals to the fans of his club. At the end of last year, summoned the intermediate results, the President of the Miners noted that he was not suitable for Shakhtar’s position in the championship, but also emphasized – they say that the club would do everything possible not only to fight for “gold”, but also to make the fans.
And what do we see now, in the middle of March, when by the end of the season for the Miners there are still a good ten matches ahead? The fact that Marino Pushich’s head coach actually “dries the oars” and gives a clear understanding – the championship races, in his opinion, is already lost. This is really the same “all possible” that Akhmetov mentioned? Unlikely…
Moreover, the latest statements of Shakhtar’s mentor are prompted that he begins to do everything for one thing – to be released. Why do you need a Bosnian? The answer is obvious: to obtain compensation (penalty) for early termination of the employment agreement at the initiative of the club. If Shakhtar and Pushich have now agreed to break the contract, then the Bosnian would have left with nothing, and so he wants to either get his agreement to end with the maximum prospects of fighting for the second place, which he has already outlined in public, or ready to go right now, but with all the money.
And in the canvas of such logic, the information that appeared earlier in the media is fully fits, that Shakhtar’s management is supposedly ready to leave Pushich in office, even if he loses the championship race this season. This is probably the same “mind games” between the top management of the Pitmen and the coaching staff, in which the parties want to achieve their minimum losses. The club does not want to pay a penalty and make it clear that if the coach wants to leave, then let it do it on your own initiative and without retreating, and Pushich, apparently, is not too burning with motivation to continue, but it is not going to refuse money. In fact, we see almost the same situation that was recently in LNZ with Andres Carrasko …
In favor of the version that Shakhtar is not too pleased with the current results of Pushich and is not ready to continue his cooperation with him with unsatisfactory sports results, the last hearing from Turkey is evidenced. The local journalist Salim Manava claims that the Miners recently addressed a specific proposal to cooperate with Eupspora’s mentor Arda Turan, but he refused to throw his team right now and expressed his desire to bring this season with his wards to the end.
It is unlikely that Marino Pushich does not know or at least does not suspect that his back is already looking for a new coach for Shakhtar. And it is hardly an accident that with such a resonant statement about the lack of chances to the championship and switching attention to the struggle for the second place, the Bosnian has come into public space right now …
It looks like Marino Pushich really challenged Rinat Akhmetov. Let’s see how the President of the Miners responds to it, who can sometimes endure and wait for how it was with Mircea Lucescu, but sometimes ready for lightning decisions made by Case Patrick Van Leuven …
Source: Sport.ua