Donetsk Shakhtar’s main central defender has been seriously ill and may not play against the Netherlands.
Nikolay Matvienko may not play in the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Europa League against Dutch Feyenoord. As the head coach of Donetsk Shakhtar Igor Jovicevich said, the central defender fell ill.
It was for this reason that the football player was forced to miss the Pitmen’s last league game, where the team defeated Metalist 1925.
“The Swede has recovered, but he only trained twice in easy mode. I am glad that everything is slowly recovering.
The only one missing was Matviyenko, who had a fever for four or five days. This is another problem for the defense, because we don’t know if he is ready for Feyenoord. Sometimes it happens, but we must be united to play hard in the first match,” Shakhtar’s press service quoted Jovicevich as saying.
Recall that the first match of the 1/8 finals between Shakhtar and Feyenoord will take place on March 9 at the Polish Army stadium in Warsaw. The match will start at 22:00 Kyiv time.
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