Dynamo Kyiv President Igor Surkis commented on the defeat of his team’s central defender Denis Popov, who after the possible cup match against Shakhtar called the Donetsk club’s junior legionnaires “parodists”.

Football functionary Kiyan explained that he respected the 26-year-old Ukrainian, having guessed about Willian, Douglas Costa, Fernandina, Alex Teixeiri, against whom, no matter, Popov when speaking at Klasichny.

“I don’t know, under the very pressure of. But I remember well the episode in the cup match, when Popov made a tackle and played the ball - apparently showing him the same card. Then the whole Shakhtar’s shop literally jumped up, nobody was killed.

So, perhaps, having provoked someone with a word, perhaps, having said the wrong thing. Ale fact becomes devoid of fact. Popov is respectful of the fact that he previously had to fight against the leading stars of the European level - Willian, Douglas Costa, Fernandino, Alex Teixeiri. These are high class football players. And today’s boys still need to be told that the eyes stink. So, these are good graves - you can’t buy football players for 15-20 million just like that. Today we have no opportunity to buy up graves for such a pittance, especially in the hour of war. Well, if I were running a business, I wouldn’t allow myself to spend such money on transfers, because now speeches are important for football. We have nowhere to go. Ale tse on the right skin club. And now - we don’t take part in the championship? We are a Ukrainian team, we play in the Ukrainian championship. Ukrainian graves. I respect this absolutely fair.

I want to give a clear testimony to that Mr. Palkin whom I betrayed - and I ask you to record it. We know who is behind it all.

As in the Cup of judging, having performed fairly on a high level, there is no food left until now. And the Romanov axis judged the same way as when they judged the final, when they beat Vanat, and also without recognizing the penalty. They kept silent because they thought it was a lapse. Ale vypadkovіst – just once! The other one is gone, the third one is a regularity.

Anyway, I won’t talk now. Since such obvious penalties are not awarded these days, football is likely to lose its way? The game could have completely turned around: Rahunok became 2:2, and perhaps we would have scored the third goal. But the third ball, which they scored, no longer saw anything - they missed nothing. The whole team went forward, tried to win - it’s natural.

That's why I can't make any claims to the team. The battle was between possibilities - the boys gave everything they could. “Shakhtar” is, at the end of the day, a great supporter – both in the first game and in the other. And we were timid as much as possible, trying to strengthen the attack for the sake of the Swedish flankers, which could add speed in another half. Alas, it’s a pity, for the very same reasons that I had already guessed, we simply did not have such capacity,” the press service of Dynamo Kiev quotes the words of Igor Surkis.

Let’s remember that Denis Popov moved to the first team Dynamo Kiev in 2019. Willian has already been with Chelsea since 2013, Douglas Costa has played for Juventus since 2015, Fernandino stole the Manchester City colors since 2013, and Alex Teixeira moved to Jiangsu Suning at the beginning of the fierce 2016.