Dinamo mentor Mircea Lucescu tried using to reveal why his group did not feel the very best way in a duel towards the Portuguese club.
– It truly is not an effortless match for us. We had a couple chances to score but we didn’t transform them. But I think it will make no sense to look at modern rivals. Benfica have a multinational group, with four or 5 Brazilians, two Argentines, a Spaniard, a Greek, a Portuguese of significant level, though we, as you have seen, had on the discipline players who had just lately been in the Academy, 18-19 Decades.
I believe if we had Sidorchuk on the pitch nowadays, in the centre of the pitch, we would not have conceded two ambitions, his expertise would be very helpful. But we lost it immediately after the match with Sturm … I think it is not normal that we have previously performed four games and we are remaining without having a vital participant by disqualification, and some teams begin their qualifying effectiveness, as they say, from scratch.
As a final result, we ran out of important gamers for us, produced faults and conceded plans. Just after that, we dominated the pitch, we experienced a few or 4 possibilities to rating, but then a different oversight led to the next intention conceded. Following that it was presently hard to hope for a get, as Benfica all experienced prime-amount gamers.
We expended the 2nd 50 percent much far more intensely, we could rating again, but at the exact same time the opponent experienced the option to rating again. In typical, a very appealing match for the admirers, that’s for certain. Not for me, since I thought we could earn this match. We have a second leg forward of us in which, I hope, the gamers will display every little thing they are able of. And right now I congratulate Benfica on their victory.
– You explained Benfica performed more aggressively at the get started of the match …
– I predicted the referee to do anything, but there was no yellow card. When 7 or eight gamers attack, drop the ball, we manage a counterattack, which is thwarted by a foul: a higher-degree European referee is obliged to punish in this kind of cases with a warning. But even right here there have been no reactions. This is a catastrophe … At the very same time, I want to position out that the decide did not affect the remaining result in any way.
– What do you feel of the probable transfers to Benfica just before the second leg?
– It is not my trouble. Consider, for instance, Roman Yaremchuk. If he played in Dinamo, he would be the greatest participant, and in Benfica he sits as a substitute. That is the difference … In reality currently our group showed superior football for the ailments in which the players are.
– Did a brief missed objective make you adjust the recreation approach, the game techniques in any way?
– As I reported, we have to free of charge youthful men and women on the pitch. Vanatu and Vivcharenko are 20, Tsarenko 18. This is too higher a stage for gamers who participate in their first game titles with the most important group, but at the very same time get superior knowledge. At the minute we really don’t have significantly preference, especially in attack… But, I repeat, even if we lost, we had a good sport, and the gamers gave their all.
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