The head coach of the “Azov” team commented on a draw match against Shakhtar (1: 1).

In the 16th round of the Premier League, Mariupol tied with Shakhtar at home - 1: 1. For the Pitmen, this was only the second misfire in the championship - earlier they lost points only in a draw with Alexandria.

“When playing with the championship leader, we naturally built the game from defense, tried to close the opponent’s strengths and look for happiness in the counterattack. Plus they wanted to get the most out of the standards - today we had an advantage in anthropometry and wanted to use it. We are very happy - in spite of all skeptics who said that “Shakhtar will never lose points in Mariupol, we showed that we have a team! "

" But we found the right tactics and played like Shakhtar vs ManCity - from defense, on counterattacks. Shakhtar owned a lot of initiative today, created moments. We’ll be honest, the opponent didn’t realize three good assists and today we’re lucky somewhere "

See also: Mariupol vs Shakhtar 1: 1 Goal video and match overview “Does the game correspond to the score?

If such a result is recorded, then it corresponds to. We wanted to score points, Shakhtar wanted to win... I repeat, we were lucky somewhere. But due to the fact that we chose the right tactics, we managed to play like that. Young guys (Peterman, Vyskrebentsev) did not fall out of the game. Yes, they had a lot of technical defects, but on the move I was very pleased with their game "

Mariupol climbed to sixth in the standings, however, he can get around the Olympic, who plays Dynamo in this round.