Poltava Vorskla lost to Sporting in the 2nd round of the group stage of the Europa League, conceding two goals in compensated time. Poltava head coach Vasyl Sachko explained the mistake of his players, and also complained about a short bench..

"We have calculated all the moments, all the standard provisions. In the first half, we played in a disciplined manner, managed to rebuild, and it gave its results. Sporting owned the ball, but did not create anything at our gate, "Sachko began.

"In the second half, our forces were running out, and Sporting reinforced the game with substitutions. This is tragic and sad, but we must accept it as it is.. We needed to strengthen the game with speed guys, but we are counting on those who are now. I am grateful to the guys, they did everything possible ".

"Replacement of the Kulach? We knew that Vlad had problems with the clavicle. He is good at attacking, but with the loss of the ball, we asked him to quickly rebuild on defense. He has already begun not to have time, so we released a fresh Sergiychuk.. He played more from the bottom, he had to cement the central axis, but it didn’t work somewhere ".

"Last minute match? Now you can say anything. In the end ran to score the second.

We opened up, it was a mistake. It would be longer than a bench, it was possible to build something ".

"Karabakh? There is no choice. We look positive on these matches.. Need to recover guys. For us, a big loss - Kobakhidze, Vasin, Chizhov. Karabakh is not a gift, it's a cool team, but we will get ready and play. We wanted this, waited, we will get out of this situation, "said Sachko on the TV channel Football 1.

Vladislav Kulach called the defeat of Sporting a tragedy.