Shakhtar head coach Luis Castro spoke about the situation at the club after the discovery of a large number of people infected with the coronavirus and shared his plans to prepare for the upcoming fights.

" We will not get away from reality, look for some excuses and feel sorry for ourselves. We know that the world is now experiencing great difficulties - the number of cases is growing everywhere. The virus attacked us very hard, we trained with six field players and three goalkeepers. Of course, this complicates the preparation.. Ahead is the match with Lvov, three days later - Real, three more days - Vorskla, and then immediately Inter... We had everything planned, but now we will not be able to follow the plan. At the moment, we do not know which of the infected footballers will recover in 10 days.. Even if some do return, we only have two days left before the fight with Real. Therefore, it is very difficult to talk about something now - everything happens like this. We do not make ourselves victims, but we are very upset with the situation. We need to look for solutions.

It is important to be as careful as possible, so we build our exercises so that the guys do not contact each other on the field.. Next week we will have to work together and contact, because there is a match with Lvov. The most important game for us is always the next one. We need to prepare for Lviv with a coordinated team.

We have 70 players who can play: first team, double and U19. The choice is very large. You need to play and we will do it. With more or less difficulties, but we must have confidence that the guys who will play are the best choice for a certain match in order to achieve the desired result. Now we are experiencing a pandemic, the situation is difficult. Thank God, we have something to answer it "

As a reminder, this week Shakhtar revealed 18 new cases of coronavirus infection.