Donetsk Shakhtar plays an away match against Cherkasy LNZ in the twenty-third round of the Ukrainian Premier League.

A decade before the starting whistle, sports director of “Girniki” Darijo Srna commented on the team’s readiness.

" Today's six new cities are mainly aligned with AZ. We understand that the game is still important, but not yet great.

We didn’t know until now that the president would be on the line against AZ. In Rumunia, when we were driving in a car, we said about this. After the game, some boys did not believe that the president had arrived at the stadium, because 12 rocks are already a lot.

We bought football players, sold them, and never lost them alive in the game. I think you yourself noted the emotions of our president, how happy he was, and the team gave a great gift to him, as well as to all the patients of Shakhtar and all of Ukraine. Ale tse lishe first krok. Emotions are deposited, the need to collapse further.

LNZ beat us 4:1 in Lvov, beat Dynamo, beat Poliss. They deserve the credit, their coach, their style of play. The stench of sharing with us is the first time we meet. Today will be even more important.

Immediately after the match we go to Lviv, spend the night, tomorrow evening we have a flight to Amsterdam. Perhaps, tomorrow we will carry out an update. In the middle there will be training, on Thursday - game, on Friday evening we will be in Lvov, on Saturday we will have a refresher, on the week we will have a little tactics, on Mondays - Polissia, after the games of Kiev and Zorya, then Kudrivka and, God willing, Krakiv.

It is important that today Shakhtar makes the rich people in Ukraine happy - the Ukrainians and all Ukrainians who love sports. So we don’t think it’s important to us.

So, we cannot be as fresh as Polissya and LNZ, who are preparing to fight with us, but not our alibi, but our strength. We need to cope with this.

So, we are doing everything for the football players to make their situation easier. We will not give in to the truth, we are timid, step by step, and we want to achieve something rich..

Matvienko is all right, Izaka is a coward, Marlon and Kriskiv are not with the team yet. We don’t have a lot of fresh players in the center of the field,” said the Croatian functionary.

Match LNZ - \u200b\u200bShakhtar starting at 13:00.