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Yesterday, the Ukrainian team suffered the most difficult defeat in its history. Also, the opponent’s second lineup was enough for this. On the eve of battles in official matches with teams no less strong, no other sensations can arise besides depression, panic and confusion. I will try to explain what exactly led to this result. With an emphasis on the performances of legionaries. Those who were supposed to drag this team after the departure of the “Miner” players, and without any link with him. After all, it was the Ukrainian plenipotentiaries abroad who disappointed the most.
Destroyed foundation
This shame has many parents. Not adopted, not fictional, but real. The absence of the players of the country’s champion and Buyalsky, Supryaga, Zinchenko. Goalkeeper story. And don’t say that national team debutant Georgy Buschan didn’t feel the pressure because he was left alone. Traditional inability to play against giants. Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Romanians more than once defeated the Germans, Spanish, British, Dutch. Over the past 20 years, the SBU has beaten the French, unmotivated Brits, and quiet Portuguese for joining the euro. That’s it. During the same time, having suffered from the giants already nine devastating defeats.
You can also talk about the crisis of coaching. The path of stereotyped trainers, trainers-methodologists is often repeated. At the beginning it is the moment of the swing, then it seems that their teams will destroy everyone, and then a crisis of coach thinking sets in, the absence of Plan B affects, the opponents find gaps, they adapt. Without a doubt, the stereotypical coaching staff of the national team played 3-4 years ago, fell apart a year or two ago, and are now unable to build a multi-functional building on a solid foundation. Because it repeats the same thing. Even in France, he wanted to get out of defense with a short pass. The result is on the scoreboard.
And the foundation itself was hopelessly destroyed by the most terrible thing for the Methodists: the loss of the first composition. The substitutes for these coaches are not played out enough and therefore much weaker. And the new players are completely helpless until they grasp the ideas of the headquarters. Gian Piero Gasperini, almost the most popular Methodist in Europe today, constantly declares that he does not like rotation, which is the antithesis of team development, team play. Ruslan Malinovsky also suffers from this, leaving Atalanta’s starting XI less often than he deserves. No wonder Buschan, Zabarny, Konoplya, Zubkov, Cheberko were defenseless yesterday …
Worse than reputation
And, of course, the form and level of each player. Also, it is better to leave the Kiev Dynamo alone. After all, it has been three years since he had a serious coach, and now he has to learn to play with Mircea Lucescu like he never has. They will certainly add. But what to think of the legionnaires? We all wish that more players leave the now weak UPL, learn real football and life in general in Europe. And the vast majority of the legionaries of the national teams have long been abroad. However, no significant progress has been observed. In addition, almost everyone, as if by agreement, started the season badly in the clubs.
To paraphrase a well-known anecdote, Andrei Yarmolenko is worse than his reputation. West Ham fans respect him and consider him a very strong player when healthy. A game changer. David Moyes’ assistant Alan Irvine “has never worked with such talent.” Midfielder Declan Rice notices Andrey’s “special” technique. The media calls his left leg a “telegraph weapon.” In the previous season, he scored key goals for three teams that finished behind the Hammers, as well as Manchester United and Chelsea.
However, Moyes doesn’t trust him too much in the new season. And this despite the fact that it expelled several competitors. He does not loose in the League, and in the League Cup after the extravagance of goals and assists that Yarmolenko played against Third Division teams against Everton (1: 4). Where he was one of the worst at touching the ball, he didn’t even land a normal six-touch hit into the opponent’s penalty area, the candy attacks bypassed him. Well, there was also a “pony with a trick”: a shift under the left leg. “Wolves” (4-0) and “Leicester” (3-0) in the league “West Ham” shattered without him, so Andrew’s future is bleak.
Boys in children’s leagues
Bohdan Mikhaylichenko started his cadence at Anderlecht to perfection. One goal, many compliments for “stealing the year” from such a good player for so little money. But let’s not forget that your club is going through the worst moments in its history. So much so that his former player Bertrand Crasson is stunned: “I’m surprised by the patience, every week the players make mistakes and this is how it should be. As if defeat had become the norm.” He’s in a club obsessed with profits. They speak of constant covert battles on the Board of Directors and development blocks. And coach Vincent Company is just starting his career.
As a result, the Brussels team already lost six points at the end of the matches, they were defeated by “Bruges” with a score of 0: 3 in a match in which Bogdan was badly mistreated, crossed and shot. He is still too naive on forward breaks and too weak on defense.
Like Evgeny Cheberko, in his new club LASK he played only half. This “diamond,” as Spox called it, has yet to begin processing. Aleksandra Zubkova has already started in Ferencvaroš. And yesterday there were some flashes. But this season the top scorer Fradi from the previous one started out with an injury, having returned quite recently.
We covered the events in Ghent enough, especially since he played against the Dynamo. The club is in a nightmare, two coaches have already been fired since the start of the season, built in two years seems to have collapsed in a month. Roman Yaremchuk feels in prison, he injures himself, be it real or desired muscles. Igor Plastun always starts the seasons very badly and will not increase speed. The team manager is unhappy with Roman Bezus’ physical form, and certainly with his dismissal against the Dynamo. Therefore, he did and will do so infrequently. And Bezus and Plastun shouldn’t play in the national team’s starting lineup.
In the last game for the club (5: 1) Yaremchuk played excellently, with initial and final brilliance of counterattacks, playing with the heel. You can add and return the Fall 2019 form. His mentor, Wim De Dekker, considers Roman’s level to be excellent for Belgium. However, “Beershot” is not the French team. And before him there was a nightmare. You have to wait. The defense of “Gent” with Plastun and “Beershot” should have allowed 3-4 goals. The club’s president, Ivan De Witte, constantly talks about “childish” fouls, frantically seeking an improvement in the game on defense through a change of coaches. You will hardly find it with Plastun. As well as the national team of Ukraine.
Good form is not enough
And even the legionnaires, who appear to be in good shape, don’t shine. Eduard Sobol receives good press at Club Brugge for his calm, confident defense, experience and help in attacking centers and even in long distance shots. His team has already achieved five consecutive victories. At the same time, he is by no means considered a world-class player, they say that he often remains in the shadows, acts shy, too cautious, which is not enough for the world level. He has already lost the competition several times and played only four full matches out of eight. And the team still remembers the start of the season with three 0: 1s and the tumultuous talk about the crisis.
Well, what about the midfield? Evgeny Makarenko and Igor Kharatin are also respected by the press. They are just leaders, reliable, calm. The second sold the most important penalty at the end of the Champions League Qualifying match, helped Ferencváros survive the second leg, as well as against Celtic and Dynamo Zagreb and return to the Champions League group for the first time in 25 years . Against the Croats, for example, having given 69 accurate passes out of 70, of which 52 were ahead. To be honest, I expected a lot more from him. And Makarenko? Yesterday he diligently tried to connect ahead, in the end he became the author of the assist. But he is still a Kortrijk player.
What is Malinovsky capable of doing in such a situation? They put him in his not the best position: the right flank. He tried to dribble and fouls. He aimed at the goal from a distance. He found himself in an excellent position in the center of the area, as in the Atalanta games. In which he shows excellent form. But still, there it shouldn’t drag the team down the hump. There is even more of a “supersub” than a player in the starting lineup. And there he fails wildly from the center of the penalty area, like yesterday. It will also add more in Bergamo and Kiev. It will start dialing again. But it is unlikely that he will become a leader.
The Ukraine team never has a Plan B. Their players are often not mentally and technically prepared. Therefore, we are unlikely to be surprised by very difficult and unpleasant encounters with the Germans and Spaniards. It is to be expected that in November the situation will improve, worse than it is difficult to imagine. That players will find their way, level up. And that Andriy Shevchenko’s headquarters will remember an important and positive factor: against teams of his level, his players have been playing very successfully in recent years. So you have to think about Switzerland, Austria, North Macedonia / Kosovo. And not about these flights of the giants.
