Captain and striker of Lugansk Zorya Pylyp Budkivskyi filled his bags in the first half of the season.

“With the arrival of a new head coach, our style of gris has changed a little, the process. Every coach comes and changes his style, shows what he wants on the football field. We adapted to this. Even though I already knew him, I just got to know him. You marveled at how we work under his care. In my opinion, we can be satisfied, maybe here we have what we didn’t get, but I think we still have time to prepare, adapt more and show more progressive football.

We had games like this, where we couldn’t finish, where we spent a few pennies on concentration. It’s also here to lie with our team, as we adapt to the field, to the farm, and here we need to achieve – we don’t have anything left. Here we just needed to achieve the result - we also spent a little bit of concentration. We also analyze and understand what we can paint.

A difficult moment when Volodymyr Bilotserkovets passed away? Everyone realized that such a tragedy had come to our club, everyone was in shock - at least. The football players did a training session at once, turned around - and here such a tragedy unfolded. Here we got together, and realized that we should give the crumbs on command, and then we got together - it was before the game with Kudrivka, - we overcame and dedicated to our victory. I would like for us to be more dedicated to the fact that people were with us in the same team, there was one family, and they are deprived of our family. Tomorrow we will remember Volodymyr. May God grant that such tragedies never happen again and that we understand that we need to value life and be one thing.

Yak was one of the highest scorers in the championship for 33 years? Train, give everything you have to do on the football field, don’t give up and realize that a football career is not permanent.

When I arrived at 20, I realized that I could lose a lot more rocks, but that’s just once or twice – and already 33. That's why you need to appreciate the hour on the football field and the training hour, because everything will be in trouble. This is the work, even if it’s just that internal energy, which is what you do in your whole life,” the club’s press service quotes Budkivsky.

After 16 rounds, Zorya scored 23 points and takes eighth place in the UPL tournament table.