Dynamo Director General Rezo Chokhonelidze thinks one of the reasons why Dynamo was beaten by Manchester United is the team’s functional fitness:
- In the second half Dynamo displayed a far better performance. Compared with the game vs. Sporting three weeks ago, we saw a different team. One can not fail to notice the players’ functional fitness is picking up. For instance Bangoura, who is not yet 100 % fit. Still, he managed to score and was moving all the time.
If a player is not functionally fit, he will not do well on the pitch throughout ninety minutes. Now that we a have a new fitness coach, we will be able to tune the team’s physical fitness during the three-month winter break. We can not immediately load the footballers. Obtaining results is a matter of time.
When asked why the team opted to play attacking football against such a serious contender as Man. United is, Revaz cited a simple reason:
- We probably had to play attacking football. Otherwise, the fans would not have understood us. I find it a usual thing for the supporters to attack the team, like they did three weeks ago on this stadium. Be it a rainy day or boiling hot, they come and back their team. So it is their right to show their fury, just the way it is in Milan, Juventus and Manchester.
Mr Chokhonelidze joked that some of the Dynamo players (Milevskyy, Bangoura and Shovkovskyy) are fit and ready to play for Manchester United. He, however, would not like anybody in return:
- I would like to see our reserves playing for the first team. In a year they could become regulars in the lineup and thus show we can produce our own footballing talents. I will not go further and give you their names, as it may do more harm than good, but there are eight brilliant players I could single out.
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