Rotan: On the field was a team that understood the value of the match against Kharkiv

The head coach of Zhytomyr Polissya Ruslan Rotan commented on his team's victory in the UPL match against Kharkiv (3:1). "Both Kharkiv and we have great ambitions. Television boldly called this match a new modern classic, and that's cool. I think if there are more such matches in Ukrainian football, the championship will grow and become much better. You know, I liked what we got up to today. Indeed, the third goal was exactly what we talked about with the boys. I repeat, we saw the problem in the transition phase of the opponent, when they control the ball, where we have to be as compact as possible. Just in the phase when the opponent plays the ball, we had to take it and deliver it to our wingers, and further advance due to individual qualities. In principle, the third goal showed that we were not mistaken. Bragaru apologized to the team with this goal after the match against Copenhagen for the second goal? You know, a team is a team. The team wins together and loses together. Of course, we always talk about individual mistakes when analyzing matches. There are individual conversations that we also conduct. We never want to judge anyone and say that someone is to blame. We are all guilty. But this is our experience, which we must take, go with it and go to the next match with maximum concentration and understanding of what needs to be done on the football field. If we do this, there will be no problems. We are moving towards it, we are building. I think that we have to go through such matches, unfortunately. Just today, we planned to slowly bring Araujo up to speed. The understanding of the game cannot be at the best level yet, because Araujo has only started training for one week. We understood that we would be at a disadvantage in the organization of the game with the ball, but the score allowed us to do it. We reacted to the fact that the opponent started playing with two forwards, we switched to the 4-2-3-1 scheme, but when developing his attack, Babenko rose a little higher. I think the key thing today is that there was a team on the pitch that wanted a result, was aggressive and understood the value of the match. This is probably the most important thing. It was the reaction of the team to how we were eliminated from the European Cups and how we pass these exams. I am referring to the loss to Copenhagen, failure to advance, the next game with Chornomorets, where we were unhappy at the start of the match, but showed quality and emerged victorious in difficult conditions. Today's match is a derby, where it was necessary to understand the specifics of the game. We understood that there would be a lot of fighting and tactical actions from the opponent. In such matches, it shows that the team clearly understands what it needs. Towards the end, I got the impression that Kharkiv obviously wanted to score something, but did I get the impression that Polissia just wanted to play as number two? Correct question. We didn't want that. We understood that we would give the ball to the opponent, that understanding was there, but we expected that we would take the ball away and have more promising counterattacks on the ball. Of course, you need to be more aggressive. We must correctly assess the situation when we are with the ball: when we go into the shot and when we don't. I didn't like the fact that with the ball we didn't know where to take control, just roll it and keep it, and where to play aggressively. We didn't like the ending because we misjudged these phases. Lyndon's problems? Everyone has periods when things don't work out, and Lyndon is currently in such a period. But we will help. We are here not to oppress him for it. We'll get through this together, and I'm sure after a while he'll be back as the Lyndon we saw at the beginning after the transition. The most important thing is to understand Lyndon himself. I can see that it is there in training, it is working well now. This stage will pass in literally two weeks, and maybe even faster, if he continues to train in the same spirit and give himself 100%. Everything comes from the head and own mood. I think he perfectly understands what he did wrong. We also understand this and will help him together. Lyndon will eventually become the player we all saw," Bartulovich's words are quoted by the club's press service. A video review of the match between Polissia and Kharkiv is available on media.