The head coach of Dynamo Kyiv was pleased with the performance of his players in the Europa League group stage.
Mircea Lucescu believes that Dynamo played well in the Europa League. Despite the lack of success and the last place in the group, the head coach of Kiev said that his team deserved to reach the playoffs of the tournament.
“We deserved more. Because of a ridiculous mistake, we conceded goals. I want to note that AEK is a very good team with good physical preparation. We lost in the fight, AEK players played much more aggressively, faster.
Physically, they are taller than us. But we surpassed the opponent in scoring chances. We didn’t implement some great features. And the opponents took advantage of our mistakes and scored three goals.
This is a success for AEK, they really want to get out of the group. Their game against all the teams in the group was a surprise. And we also have an important match against Fenerbahce because we have to prove that we are the best team in the group. We did not achieve positive results, but we played very good matches.
Congratulations to AEK on advancing to the Conference League. Hopefully they will continue to move on and surprise the European clubs. This is a team with good, experienced and technical performers.
It’s a pity in the second half that our opponents tried to play for time, there were many stops. We wanted to win, but we had a good time only in the last parts of both halves, when the team showed the desire to win.
Tomorrow we will have a road back to Ukraine. We were on the road all day. On Sunday we will play a championship match, and the next day we will cross the border again and go to Krakow, where we will play with Fenerbahce. It is very difficult to spend 10 hours on the road several times a week.
Today the players lack physical strength. But in technical terms, the team looks good. Despite the fact that the team was deprived of the opportunity to continue training. Too bad we didn’t leave the group. I think we deserved it,” Dynamo’s official website quoted Lucescu as saying.
Recall that Dinamo played a draw with AEK from Larnaca in the fifth round of the Europa League group stage, and cannot continue playing in European competition.
The last match in the group stage is against Fenerbahce in Krakow on November 3rd. The beginning of the meeting – 22:00 Kyiv time.
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