The midfielder of the Zhytomyr club shared his thoughts about the first half of the season.

Farmer of Zhytomyr Poliss Vasyl Gritsuk, filling bags for the first half of the season in the Ukrainian Premier League.

" And those ideas, which were reported not only by the team, but also by the president of the club, I think, contributed to this result. It’s hard to calm us down, but we know very well what we have to work on. We have collected songs from the stage we have passed. And now we know very well what we need to work on in order for the results to be better.

I think it’s more surprising to see such a big championship. More simply, you marveled at these fates for five years and there are only two teams. And today I am even impressed by the fact that we have great strength and the skin team is vying for the prize.. This is not a fight, but just like that. Because if you understand that there is no chance for mercy in you, then you work hard, give 100% and do your best. I think it would have been worse if it had been like in Pershaya Liza, if we had had a great wind and then, at the end of the championship, the little ones began to fly in the gloom. And now the situation in the championship is even more motivating and good.

Why were there so many people at the end of the first half of the championship Football is such a game that you don’t know it, but you know it, but you know it. Of course, no one should go out to play for nothing, but for defeat. Everyone come out to the rescue. I think it's more about psychology. First of all, the strength in the tournament table. And, perhaps, the boys were afraid to make that peace by leading them to the rakhunka, as it was a great pity that the match with Veres, for example, became. This is the mercy that everyone told us: when they took us to the rakhunka, we could not make it bigger, but simply played around the rakhunka. And in the end our supernik punished us for this. That's why I think it's more about psychology. The boys had it in their heads that we couldn’t lose, but we didn’t risk the table so that we could win the matches.

It seems to me that Yuri Kalitvintsev’s mood after the first half of the season was rather twofold, because the remaining battle with Dnipro-1 was previously bad, but everyone wanted victory, of course. Ale vin said those words that encouraged us a little. First of all, the team is playing for the first time for many years in the Premier League and for the first, so be it, trial of their season, we have done poorly in the first part of the season. Ale at the same hour, you need to do a lot of work. So, I think, more positive, less negative.

There were a lot of matches that we forgot. For me, it’s probably a match for Obolonya. Gripping 0:0, we fought on the remaining hills and will overcome, which we really needed. Tim is even better with such a super player. For the lesser ones, this match is forgotten. And the start of the good matches was with Metalist 1925, where they also won on the remaining battlefields. Ale zagalom usi matches buli garnimi. As we have overcome, so are the lessons we learned from defeat..

Penalty misses in the Panenka style in the match with Minaj? You know, being unbeaten could be done in different ways. Ale tse still missed penalty. Our beloved sofa critics seem to think that I'm fucking. Ale everyone was up to it, like I was punching, like I was scoring and they splashed in the valley and said: it’s super, it’s great. After all, it's a big blow, you might say, a small blow to me. And to be honest, I was able to overcome literally five problems and misunderstandings that I needed to straighten everything out.. Kudos to the boys for that match. We played through the gris as we went, but the boys managed to win. They changed me, but the boys got it, I can overcome it, and I’ll give it to you for the most part. I gave them a chocolate after the match and I finished it. The boys supported me and everything was fine.

Without seeing anyone from the team closely, the whole team was great and they gave 100%, both in training and in matches. I would really see the coaching staff, because they prepared the team for such an important championship. I would have seen such lads.

How Polissya reacts to attacks and criticism from the side of ZMI? You know, I’ll say this - if there are no critics, there will be no growth. That's how I think. If everything had been good and everyone would have said: everything is cool, everything is good, good guys, bad team, who always excel, but they didn’t fail, and we were praised every time, then I think it would have been worse. And criticism gives us the strength for growth that we need. Attacks happen and it’s not even acceptable if you read this about your team and yourself. Ale without whom we cannot play football.

I think the other half of the season will be better. Why, since we came out of the First League, the teams here were probably surprised by the fire and underestimated us. Everyone wanted to cheer for the team, cheer for the gravers and check for our group. But it’s all the same, perhaps, there were thoughts: this is the First League, they haven’t played yet and there was such a staging. Ale, as practice has shown, the stinks have had mercy. And this played into our hands. Why would a little bit be more important - since all teams will go through winter training camps, they have already learned their superniks, as we have learned from all our superniks. So I think in this plan three rubles will be more important.

The ball is round and we will place everything on the field.

To our patients, I want to wish their new birth a new life, health and a peaceful sky. over your head. So that our greatest victory is achieved as soon as possible and all our boys and girls return home alive and well,” the club’s press service quotes Gritsuk as saying.

After 17 rounds, Polissia scored 32 points and is in third place in the UPL standings, ahead of leaders Kryvbas and Dnipro-1 by two points.