- Have you managed to help players recondition after the match against Shakhtar from the psychological point of view?
- I hope so. We’ve done what we could for that. We’ve pointed out our mistakes and analyzed them. We have only three days to forget about the previous match and get ready for the next one. I hope tomorrow we won’t perform the way we did against Shakhtar. We didn’t have a team on the field that night. I see in players’ eyes that they’re ready to fight for victory.
- Has Serhiy Rybalka recovered? Do you have other squad problems?
- Serhiy will take part in our training session and we’ll see how he feels. Everyone else is fine. We have a wide range of performers.
- Jose Mourinho has stated that Dynamo don’t resemble any of English teams. What do you think of that?
- The main characteristic feature for English football is game intensity. You don’t have much time to think when you obtain the ball there. We also aim for that, but not always do we succeed. Chelsea are good at that, but English league is unpredictable. Who could predict that they would be 11th in the table… We’ve analyzed Chelsea matches. They have a lot of strengths but also some weaknesses. We hope we’ll use them.
- Diego Costa is well known provoker while Yevhen Khacheridi often rises to provocations. Have you discussed that with him?
- Of course we’ve paid attention to that. The whole world knows about these provocations, but everyone rises to them. I hope that won’t happen tomorrow. It’s important not to play outnumbered. I hope all of our performers will take the game seriously. Last season there were a lot of provocations in the Europa League.
* photo by V. Rasner
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