The specialist summed up the team's performances.

The head coach of Luhansk Zarya Viktor Skripnik named the team's most unsuccessful match in the group stage of the Europa League.

" We played with our hearts, not our heads. We understood that we had two defeats before and we should only win. And the opponent, realizing this, caught us making mistakes. We went ahead anyway and took risks, and as a result we failed this match, which, in fact, we lost to ourselves.. Then there was a pause in the championship, we worked for three weeks and after that everything went differently. So, the match with AEK was not the most difficult?

Skripnik also admitted that the end of the first half of the season turned out to be very difficult for Zarya..

" These were away games with Alexandria and Desna. It was very hard to endure physically. Before that there was a serious climatic change.

From -4 to Zaporozhye to +17 to Braga and back to zero degrees to Alexandria. It is clear that this is our job, but we also need to win. And the situation was such that we had to win.

For this I express my deep gratitude to the team for the fact that they psychologically withstood. Not only physically. But there were also microtraumas. And Vernidub, and Nazarina, and Khomchenovsky, and Tsvek, and Rufati. But this is football. We mobilized all our reserves, and none of the players let us down, "