I wonder what happened so long ago.

Before Shakhtar’s ambitious game against Bayern Munich, we wondered how the upcoming match against the German giants would turn out for the “Girniki”.

First, Shakhtar met with the Bavarians in a matter of hours, as they had already faced crisis. The loss of Crimea and parts of Donbas, the drop in the dollar exchange rate to 27, the unnecessary Brazilian taxes from the Willian region to go to Ukraine undermined the ambitions of Rinat Akhmetov. As a result, in the beginning of 2014, the “Girniki” managed to make do with a couple of internal transfers: Marlos and Acevedo arrived from Metalist, for which they had already made a big deal. Powerful, apparently, nasty, but more modestly on the aphid transfers of Fred, Tyson and Bernard, who arrived throughout one 2013.

Bavaria, of course, thought in completely different categories. The 2013 treble was given to rock with an absolutely fantastic game: how can this team be supported in principle However, this is not the case, but Josep Guardiola, just before the first summer, bought Gjotze and Alcantara, and another - Lewandowski, Alonso, Bernata, Benatia. Not everything went well, and in the 2013/14 Champions League semifinals the Bavarians were eliminated by Real Madrid, and until the end of the day, the team had the status of not an elite, but a superelite. In the first 21st round of the Bundesliga, having outplayed the team against the “Girniki”, Bayern won 16 – and the whole world had 2-3 equal opponents.

Shakhtar, one hour, the Ukrainian Championship has begun to warm up. The teams had to call for a new life, in all their manifestations: the newcomers are no longer equal to the national team of Brazil, and they have to train not to be in “Kirsha”. Before the fierce year of 2015, the “Girniki” had already lost the title by a lot of hundreds: they lost to Zorya, Dynamo, Metalurh, and could not beat Dnipro. When the group with Athletic, Porto and BATE came out in full force, and fought for the first place, losing to the “dragons” in the endgame..

With this balance of forces it was such that Guardiola, at the pre-match press conference, spoke about the important problem of underestimation. Kazav, but he himself left Robert Lewandowski on the bench. In the debut season, it’s true that it’s not so monstrous: 8 goals and 4 assists in 19 starting rounds – for just a striker it’s too much, for Robert it’s not enough.

Ale without a new one, Bavaria saw at the Lviv camp something even worse and worse. Hibnu nine grave Thomas Muller, and Shakhtar’s guard got caught up with him. Possibly, with creativity, the Munich team would have been better, but Lam had injuries, in the middle of the other half, Xabi Alonso took the red card in the jubilee hundredth match in the Champions League. Shakhtar happily saved zeros, after the match the coaches said this:.

Guardiola: “We have a lot of scoring chances. I would like to say that we did not allow Shakhtar to create unsafe situations. Set up an offensive strategy for today: control the Swedish counterattacks of Shakhtar players, especially Taison, Teixeira, Costa. We got it. These gravitational Swedes can create scoring chances. We are even more pleased that we did not allow them to work today. Three moments in the Champions League match are still good. Muller Robben had a chance today. I am pleased with this fight”.

Lucescu: Bayern came to Lvov with great enthusiasm after the 8:0 razhunka in the match with Hamburg. This made us more respectful and organized in defense activities. I give less respect to the attack. And if we did go forward, our opponents had to foul. This led to yellow cards, and to winning. It’s also a pity about those who, for the most part, didn’t show their football. Instead of controlling the ball and beating the opponent, who is in the minority, we began to play long passes. Our henchmen are fussing. Such passes have never been easy, and our attacking players have had occasion to receive the ball from less than comfortable minds.”.

Shakhtar - Bayern 0:0 Shakhtar: P'yatov, Srna, Rakitsky, Kucher, Shevchuk, Fred, Fernando, Costa (Marlos, 77), Teixeira, Adriano (Gladky, 89), Taison (Nyomu, 84) Bayern: Neuer,. Lewandowski, who scored “3+1” in these matches using the “goal plus pass” system, booking his place in the main group of the Champions League. Shakhtar defeated Vorskla 3:0 in the championship, and also beat Metalist 2:2. Before the game, Guardiola said that in the Bundeslisa, the “Girniki” would have fought for victory, but had simply uttered these words throughout the match.

First of all, considering Kuchera’s foul, who cut Gjotze at the very beginning of the grain. The penalty was there, but the decision of the referee Collum and the date included with him also a red card for the next generation of sick people will bring not bad luck, but, most likely, unreasonableness. Unfortunately, in 2015 there was still a norm of subordinate punishment: punishment for reducing the obvious scoring potential of a set with a penalty was the standard.

Dali Bayern were simply swaggering. The presence of two most important players of Guardiola's creation forms a diamond: Schweinsteiger in the supporting zone, Robben and Riberi closer to the center, Gyotz as a playmaker (a rare match when you can simply create beauty,. After the fact, it seems that against such an ultra-attack scheme, Shakhtar has a chance on counterattacks - but for which it is necessary, of course, to plunder in the military warehouses.

And so this is one of the most beautiful matches for Guardioli’s Bayern. Boateng scored another after Pyatov saved Lewandowski's shot from the goal line; Schweinsteiger scored a goal pass to Lewandowski from his own half of the field; scoring against Badstuber, who scored more than once in his other 176 matches for Bayern. Bayern scored, giving Shakhtar the biggest European Cup defeat in history.

Lucescu swore after the match, turning on himself:.

“I was afraid of one thing, and that’s what happened: penalties and forfeiture from the first ten. In such a situation, fighters loom on the field. Unfortunately, they didn’t show up. We lost all the martial arts, showed our lack of character.

At the end of the break, having outpaced your team, it will be even more difficult to equalize the leaders, unless you have to fight for your image, for the image of the team. Sorry, it didn’t work out. Srna overcame the injury, and before he was allowed onto the field, we conceded another goal. And then the team was no longer on the field.

Those who missed after counterattacks, incredibly. It is not possible for a numerical minority to open up like this and take away such moments without our own thieves. For a lesser amount of damage in the career”.

I, of course, without missing the opportunity to be an arbitrator:.

“I don’t think that Bavaria would need such help in another season. You have to wonder why there really was a penalty. Ale the red card could not be given for the first time. From that moment on, there were probably ten Germans on the field in our team, and not ten Brazilians!

We lost for those parameters for which Bayern was truly stronger for us: in character, tactics and in martial arts. The match ended after the third goal, when Srna left the field and they gave him help, and the Bavarians scored the third. It’s impossible to play in the minority and waste the balls so easily.”.

Guardiola said:.

“In the first match we fielded three attackers, which was important, but today everyone played brilliantly: Lewandowski, Gjotze and especially Riberi. Frank Pershi 20 Khvylin Grav is simply wonderful. 11 versus 10 – significant, not easy. I can but be pleased: today we played wonderfully, controlled the ball and dominated the whole hour. We didn't give Shakhtar a fair chance. I played against this team 6-7 times, the stink of strong football, but in the minority it was not easy. We were faced with our problems today.”.

Bayern - Shakhtar 7:0 Goals: Muller 4 (penalty), 52, Boateng 34, Riberi 49, Badstuber 63, Lewandowski 75, Gotze 87 Bayern: Neuer, Badstuber (Dante 65), Boateng,. The Germans lost the match at Porto 1:3 – and yet another home feat, also against Lam, they called to victory 6:1. At the finals, Guardiola, having recognized the defeats of such a well-known Barcelona, \u200b\u200bcan also enjoy the championship. Shakhtar, this hour, having finished his championship in another place.