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Donetsk Shakhtar player Taras Stepanenko commented on the upcoming match of the first round of the Champions League group stage against Porto.

" If I sensed that we were going to play in Gamburzi and that nearly 37 thousand season tickets had already been purchased, then I realized that there would be miracle matches for us. We love to play in front of the spectators, feel the encouragement. We know how the German people support Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. There are a lot of Ukrainians living in Germany, so I respect that we will have great support for the ongoing group stage of the Champions League. I am confident that we can achieve more and more positive results.

Well, first of all I want to say that we will win all six matches, we will leave the group and everything will be great. But I’m really amazed at all the forecasts there and I’m trying to be honest and let’s get to know others.

Shakhtar — Porto. In advance, I appreciate that we have a strong team, a new coach with new benefits for the players, for the team, and we call all of us. All the young boys can still jingle until they can. Pevno, Champions League matches are played with a completely different intensity. You play against teams with great justice and more intense football, and I have also won in the fights of national teams.

I can say that the team is ready, the team is ready to get everything done, and get the result. We are all ready: we want to play and achieve results in the Champions League. And when it happens, it’s even more important to make predictions.

I guess that in the past few years no one before us experienced such a result, but we went out and earned. Whose fate are you already feeding so much, so what do you see before us?. And we want to earn as much as we can, otherwise there will be a European spring in Ukraine. There’s no need to talk about it, but you need to practice it, get ready for the match and take care of what the coach expects.

Stavlennya to Porto? After the foaling, my thoughts about superniks were quenched. I translated it into Ukrainian, then it was translated into English, and then into Portuguese. And in the end, I woke up and gave a lot of creative messages on Instagram. I don’t know what happened there before I transferred it. I saved some of them on my phone, even though it was funny. I respect that even the fans of Porto simply kidnapped their team, but less deserved. Ale tse is effective, just incomprehensible.

Throughout my career I have played against the Portuguese Porto, Benfica, Braga, and even stronger teams. And this is what I said to Porto. We marveled at the rest of their games in the championship, there were three wins and one draw. The stinks looked wonderful last season in Liza as champions and played really well. This team has a lot of technical and advanced experts, like Pepe, who is 40 years old. It's neumovirno! So, of course, we respect Porto, but we must play our football and show a miracle for our country and our people.

Before my first game in Liza, the champions’ head coach sat me in the elevator and said: “You’re ready! " Whenever you play at Shakhtary’s, we cook. If you’re not ready, you won’t spend money here. We have a great team spirit, a great team, trying to help one another. Since all of the debutants play for Porto, since the Mister believes so much, they want to get everything in their power and stick to the game,” the club’s press service quotes Stepanenka as saying..

Guess what, the match between Shakhtar and Porto will take place today, 19th spring, at 22:00 Kyiv time. On Football. ua online text broadcast of the match will be available.