On Thursday, August 24, in the first match of the playoffs of the Conference League qualifying round, Dynamo Kyiv lost 2:3 to Turkish Besiktas. The meeting was nominally home for the Ukrainian team, but because of the war it was held in Bucharest at the Giulesti stadium. Your attention is the post-match press conference of the head coach of the Ukrainian team Mircea Lucescu.
Mircea Lucescu
– Someone will say that I find fault with refereeing. But with mistakes like this, we are champions in goals cancelled. And with Benfica the season before last, they also canceled … We drew that line, rewound a minute of the game in order to consider some kind of offside, which in fact was not. In the penalty kick episode, when the ball changed its direction of flight after being hit from close range and the Besiktas player hit Popov’s pressed hand with his head, the referees also made a decision in favor of our opponent.
In general, the game was good on our part, if we exclude those mistakes, which, unfortunately, are repeated. This is what upsets me the most. I’m talking about this, but they still exist … Both our performance and the opponent’s played well, but we dominated, had good chances for scoring. But in such episodes as with a goal that was canceled, it’s like your wings are clipped, and it’s very difficult to return to the game. We did it, well done guys, but I am dissatisfied with the result, as well as our mistakes.
How will you prepare for the next game? What do you expect from her?
“We still have a chance. Today we played well against a strong opponent who, technically and physically, was probably better than us, but we played well against them due to the organization of the game, dedication, unity. We will try to play in the same way in Istanbul, we have positive moments, but we need to eliminate these mistakes that we make in the game in defense and which lead to goals conceded. We must play our game, oppose our opponent with our combinational game, and believe that we can achieve the desired result.
— Did you like the support of the fans?
– It is difficult to ask the fans when another team is playing to support it in the same way as their own. Of course, we felt support, perhaps we wanted to feel it a little more, but at the same time it is a pity that we did not thank the fans with a good result. It was a good game, but not the result… There is still a second match, I hope we play well, win, and return to Bucharest to play the Conference League group stage fights.
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2023-08-25 03:37:00
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