Roman Petrenko - about some aspects of the coaching confrontation between Paulo Fonseca and Alexander Khatskevich.

The ways of Shakhtar and Dynamo will cross in the current championship for the third time. At the first stage of the season luck in face-to-face meetings was accompanied by the team of Alexander Khatskevich, which did not stop the "miners" at the moment to rise on the mountain of the standings with a six-point advantage. Of course, the match in Kharkov can be decisive in the "golden" race, especially if it ends in favor of the nominal hosts. Draw will also be profitable for the Donetsk team, while the Dynamo will only win. Victory, the experience of achieving which at the USC Metalist in the boys Khatskevich there. Then, that before the July meeting between Shakhtar and Dynamo, few predicted a quiz of Kyiv guests, but it turned out that way. Now staying in reserve DiMercy Mbokani brought his club three points, and in the autumn of the team left the field of the Olympics not salono hlebavshi (0: 0).

However, every match is a new life and a completely different story. In addition to the long-running proverbial battles of our grandees, their ambitions for these confrontations have also mentors. Come to Shakhtar almost two years ago, Paul Fonseca quickly figured out the features of our championship, and on the first attempt won gold medals. This made the Portuguese very convincingly, leaving little chance for the main competitor, then headed by Sergei Rebrov, but without Raul Riacho. In summer the Dynamo ship was led by a new captain - another legendary player of the club Alexander Khatskevich, who immediately had the opportunity to take baptism of fire in the match for the Super Bowl. The first pancake was a lump - won the "miners", but within a week the Belarusian specialist took revenge in the championship, and it became clear that an interesting coaching battles. If Fonseca practically did not depart from the Lucescov principles, not without relying on their validity, the Dynamo coach in the summer began to re-adjust the mechanism, once carefully assembled and launched by the duo Rebrov-Riancho.

It is logical that it was matches with Shakhtar for Khatskevich that immediately became an indicative exam. Well, where, if not in fights against the main competitor, to prove their own worth. In the Kharkov meeting, the Belarusian has chosen almost the only true tactic - maximum reliability in the defense in the compartment with the search for chances in counterplay. At the same time, the traditionally reactive Brazilian impact fist was virtually neutralized. Yes, his chances of the same Ferreira were, but the then guard of the gates of Dynamo Maxim Koval never let himself be pierced by the persistent "miners", otherwise the defense functioned confidently. However, Shakhtar's coach did not express any negative emotions in the style of his predecessor after the match, and was extremely laconic: "The game was this: some attacked more, others defended themselves. The winner is the one who scores. I can only congratulate Dynamo ".

In turn, the idea of ??Khatskevich for that match worked completely. Having held the first half, the Dynamo in the very debut of the second half of the game built an indicative goal in which all the components agreed: from the initial stage in the form of the flanking transfer of Nikolai Morozyuk, further dispatch actions of Denis Garmash - to the dagger shot from the second floor Mbokani with a positional error Sergey Krivtsov.

The October duel in Kiev turned out to be far less memorable. Even more, that match, apparently, for a long time will be considered the least spectacular in the long history of the "classical", and it's not just the final zeros on the scoreboard of the main arena of the country. The game itself, apart from the traditional external heat, did not cause any special sympathy, although, it seems, the scenario was quite predictable. "Miners" were more often with the ball, designed moments at the gates of Kiev, but the experimental center of defense Dynamo Hacheridi - Kadar that night was on top. And then Khatskevich also guessed with the introduction of Nikita Korzun, who was the best in the T-shirt of the Kiev club,.

But Fonseca in that meeting had to make urgent adjustments even during the first half, which, of course, violated the tactical ideas of the Portuguese. Broken Bernard replaced Dentinho, in the end failed to fully replace the Donetsk "top ten", shining just in the autumn in the Champions League. In many respects for this reason, Shakhtar in Kiev was not so aggressive in the attack.

Certainly, the third meeting of Fonseca and Khatskevich is expected with undisguised interest. Steering Shakhtar over the years spent in Ukraine, managed to make a general impression of himself. Knowing the price and even self-righteous, the Portuguese certainly keeps in mind revanchist motives and will try to turn them into reality. It is well understood and his opponent, on the side of which, on the one hand, the psychological advantage in the form of victory and draw, and on the other - the need for mandatory victory.

Instead of P. Meanwhile, Fonseca already predicts the scenario of the match: "I believe that we will dominate the confrontation with a very strong team that defends the line of the ball with a large number of performers.

We want to take the initiative and almost all the time we plan to act in half of the opponent's field. I am preparing for an aggressive Dynamo in the defense, as well as dangerous outings of "white-blue" in counterattacks. I hope for a lack of similarity with the last two fights, where there were so many fouls. I expect that the game will be beautiful. "We also count and believe, but we will learn the truth already on the nearest Saturday.

Author: Roman Petrenko.