Shakhtar lost the European League by flying out of Marseille. The first match ended in a draw - 2:2, and in the second - the Ukrainian team gave up - 1:3.

After the match, Shakhtar head coach Marino Pusic spoke about the match, spoke about the replenishment of the stands and announced the team’s goals for the rest of the season.

About the match “First of all, I want to greet my opponent, because he deserves to win. Suddenly we played the match really well, controlled the game, created chances, scored a goal - we were on the right track to a positive result. And until the final moment, everything went well for us, which is not easy with such a rival, who has a lot of individual strengths, physical strength and support for patients in the stadium.

As our team played well for the first 20–25 battles, unfortunately, we began to show off, and our opponent immediately got rid of her, having stagnated good transitions, and after which the energy of the game changed, we could no longer show our game, so three times less sickened.

Hello, I can understand that it’s not easy to turn back into a group after something like this. We started the other half with a score of 1:1 – it’s all the same result, it’s all the same game. And point at the beginning of the other half and we lobbed the ball in a nasty way.

Marcel acted adventurously: with a long-range pass and another goal, physical aspects and more. In truth, I don’t know that we had a lot of goals in us, in fact, no, but there is also a rival: the fight was tormented the whole game, the docks did not show mercy again, and the stinks killed and killed the rahunok 1:2. And you know, at this moment we wanted to change something, we were ready until then, but immediately after that we conceded the third goal - out of nothing, also through a mercy.

So football is a gra, so it’s time to lie down for mercy. It’s a pity that three of them started, too, with such a rival, in such a stadium. Zagalom, I think that Marcel, having earned it, will overcome. This is covered for us, because we have perfectly spoiled this group, as I have already said, it is impossible to print the international match with Marseille as quickly as possible. Ale tse football: those who have earned fewer pardons, melodiously, matimut the best result. And this is what happened"

About the patients “There is a big difference between the game in an empty stadium and this match in a full stadium, but it’s not true, because we played a lot of European matches and showed great results. So I won’t be victorious about this, just because it’s true, anyway.

What is important is that your team is responsible for coping with the energy at the stadium, which we have done well in the first 20 years. And if you have mercy, you give your opponent a chance to win just like that, this energy changes.

So, the stinks were even loudly encouraging, we know that there is a moment when the stink no longer wants to hurt, because as you lead and control the game, the energy is directed against you. So we really gave energy to the stadium and the opponent. This is not true for us every time.

As I already said, we decided to show our team after the first missed goal, but it was still 1:1 when we turned around after the first half. In this case, I repeat, as soon as you continue to give your opponent’s team energy and energy to the stadium, it will be even more important.”.

About substitutions “Actually, at that moment, the team didn’t have anything special: we were preparing substitutions for the rest of the match, but immediately took away this goal, 2:1, literally on the spot. Therefore, at that time the speech was not in substitutions, but in individual responsibilities.

Then we wanted to introduce other players in order to change the course of the game, but then we suddenly took away the third goal - again from nothing, through an individual amends. Sometimes we need to give back in this aspect, but we were not lucky. Sometimes the game looks like this, but, I repeat, we have accumulated too many individual amends in order to change it."

About the goals for the season “I will be very happy as soon as the fans turn to the stadium, because you play football and other sports games for people, and for citizens, it is always good, it motivates. That's why I'll be even happier, if that happens. And obviously, there are two goals: the domestic championship and the Cup, which is very important for us.

We face serious competition, and now we focus on what. And by making it more expensive, it is clear that we will save our strength, we would like to cover it, because we wanted to lose it from Europe. If such circumstances arise, we must focus on our internal achievements and compete with other teams for first place in order to reach the Cup..

I want to say one thing, and I have already said it to my colleagues:

how to fill the bags of this European campaign, we can only write, and I can only write with my team - with what we showed, how we imagined for even more important circumstances. We tried, but failed to achieve success.

I am already writing to my team and the athletes of the club, who are working so hard to support us, to help us with everything we need, with travel expenses, with organization.. We have shown again that Shakhtar has turned to the European level, and in the future we will obviously begin to progress,” the coach concluded.

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