SC Poltava coach Igor Timchenko commented on his team’s defeat in the UPL match against Kharkiv Metalist 1925 (0:2).
" We fought with a really hard team. So, in the first half we chose more defensive tactics. We tried to launch counterattacks, as much as we could. Chantly, it didn’t sound as much as we wanted. Metalist 1925 didn’t have many moments. There were long-distance blows, it was not safe. Cover up the missed ball for us during the rest of the first half. I won’t say that this is some kind of lapse - no, this is our mercy. But for us it will be unacceptable.
Well, in the other half, we tried to play more actively, but we missed hitting the sweet ball, and it became even worse. The Metalist 1925 team is good, I think that, melodiously, they really won. If there was a moment in us, we could be jealous of the standard. It’s difficult for us to resist such teams. In principle, I have no idea what our players deserve – they gave all their strength to the field. So sometimes it happens that the opponent’s team is stronger, weaker.
Sukhoruchko wages single combat with hissers. Maybe here and play rougher, no need. After all, many times they beat the same, here we judge that there are no foul whistles that could have whistled. He is also a reasonable footballer, he understands that there is still a card - I think he is already more careful. Having chased the ball a lot, having worked a lot - I decided to take him off the field.
There are moments in us, but we can’t score penalties. What other moment is needed, since we have a penalty, and we can’t score This is our mastery, which is needed all the time... I tell them in the evening: “Advance your mastery - in training, in games.”. You can go to churches and where else, except that there are gravels of the high plain, which we are always in, and food in the field is the priority. Therefore, training more is the only secret to success,” Timchenko said on the UPL TB broadcast.
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