Markevich: Shakhtar’s level of training does not allow us to expect more

Fans shouldn’t get their hopes up Shakhtar some significant victories in the Champions League. This is what Ukraine’s Honored Coach Miron Markevich thinks.

According to a well-known expert, in the fight against Porto There was a strikingly significant difference between the Ukrainian champions and their rivals; the Portuguese played with reserve and could complete the matter by defeating the Donetsk team.

“Even though the fight is new Porto In a comment to one of your colleagues, I said that the Pitmen would, at best, take third place in their group. And it’s not because the opponents have the lead Barcelona And Porto. Just the training level of football players Shakhtar I am not allowed to expect more.

I will not study the decision of my colleague from Shakhtar. Ultimately, he is responsible for the outcome. But in fairness, it can be said that Patrick van Leeuwen is just beginning his journey. Meanwhile, one can only sympathize with the Dutch specialist. After all, a team has played enough, and then there are injuries, disqualifications and everything has to start again.

You play a pattern, it seems that there has been a change, and Sican’s childish mistake, which led to the conceding of the second goal, nullifies everything. By the way, in this episode of the game Sikan had several options, but he chose the worst, which went through the middle part of the field. That this should not be done is taught in elementary groups of youth sports schools. As they say, we have what we have.

We have to admit that Shakhtar the current model does not have a “trump card” that would allow group favorites to fight – Barcelona And Porto. Other than goalkeeper, other positions are a concern. Of course, this is all against the background of the Champions League, as the UPL still has enough executive level to see through. But you always want more.

Some kind of vague impression remains. In fact, the game was made in the first half and this is exactly the case when the players Shakhtar realized that they could not reach the breaking point. Yes, there were 1-2 hints of scoring chances, but it was clearly not enough to save ourselves from defeat. Yesterday in Hamburg football players Porto is in the role of the hosts and, if necessary, can add and complete the thing with a defeat,” said Markevich in a commentary on sport.ua.

We remind you Miner lost in a nominally home Champions League against Portugal Porto.

Earlier, Pitmen head coach Patrick van Leeuwen commented on the play of his own players.