“Yaroslav Klimchuk commented on the result of the cup match”, – WRITE: Sport.ua
“The most difficult rival in my career. We had experience in playing with professional UPL teams, but these were sociable tournaments, preparatory cycles. At this level, it was the first time.
Of course, we understood who we play with, understood the level of the opponent. However, we set the guys to fight, we emphasized the game without a ball. Be compact, structural, withstand intensity and dynamics. We realized that it would be very difficult, especially the first 15-20 minutes. But I think that in the game against the ball we have coped somewhere more or less.
The difference in class? Of course, we understand that Shakhtar team is played by top -level players. And every player individually is a top player. And we realized that in the game one, if we play more positional football, we have no chance at all. Therefore, we took the fact that we will be organized by command. The class of players at this level is different. So they tried to take the organization somewhere.
There was a pleasant journey from the event. We understood that with a team such as Shakhtar at this stage of the Cup, it is unclear, we would ever play if any of our players would play. Therefore, it was more like a holiday for us.
The players themselves also read all the comments of experts, where we have already lost 5-0, 10-0, etc. We just went out to prove that we can at this level against such a opponent of the top level to be a team, to be organized. I think we succeeded, ”Yaroslav Klimchuk said on UPL-TB.
