Shakhtar are Shakhtar. These guys became champions for a reason

– We put everything at stake today, but Shakhtar are Shakhtar. These guys became champions for a reason. It is clear that the team are very high-quality, even without the members of the national team. Any Shakhtar player who came on the field would be a regular in any other UPL team. I am 100% sure. We are very happy that we took the fifth place, which we could only dream of even at the beginning of the second round, when we lost the play-off match. But then the boys figured themselves out, we stabilized. And these games, which were against Dnipro-1, against Kolos, when you can struggle, but play, score, endure – that is what we did. And today we approached this game with such an attitude that we just wanted to win, because without victory we would have nothing to dream about. And we did it! So, I congratulate the team, the guys and all our fans.

– To what extent did the team accomplish the task for the game? What were they able and not able to implement on the field?
– When you win, it does not matter what mistakes were made. As for the last minutes, the red card probably played a special role. Those guys who stayed on the field were afraid of making the last mistake or running forward and then not running back, it is always in the back of their minds. We endured and looked for our chances ahead. What we did and what we did not do... Our goal today was to win and wait for the results of parallel matches. We did it and we are very happy!