Shakhtar midfielder Taras Stepanenko admitted that in the end of the match with Manchester City the team was looking at the time, since they gave a lot of energy.

"Very seriously tuned, realizing that this match - the most important in the season. They did their best, they all insured and helped each other. Began to beat on the gate, and this brought the result: in the episode with the first goal played great Bernard.

In City, the match was skipped by de Bruyne, nevertheless in their composition all the players prove that they are ready to perform in such club. In the vicinity of the 75-78th minute it became hard, we gave a lot of energy, I even looked around for a while ... It was necessary to achieve a positive result.

As Mr. Mister said, in this group in us very few people believed, but we left it in the playoffs, and this is a great achievement. They showed that there is good football in Ukraine ". - said after the victory Stepanenko.