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The head coach of the Ukrainian team, Andriy Shevchenko, spoke about the situation around the Nations League match against Switzerland.
Lucerne is a wonderful city, which, unfortunately, I did not have the opportunity to see. We spend all this time in a hotel. The situation that the team found itself in and that was organized for us was difficult. I still don’t know the setting. You will first consider our arguments and they are very strong. I think our side has everything to go to the point that at least we are not worthy of a technical defeat. In general, I think that the correct result should be decided by a repetition. We must play this match and find out among ourselves who is stronger and should remain in the top flight.
I did some research on the incident with the repeated positive tests from Moraes and Krivtsov. People who have been sick may still have the virus, but it is already dead. They cannot infect anyone, but the test shows this virus. Therefore, these tests are called false positives. But they talked about it only the next day. On game day, the information was provided differently.
In Germany, we find ourselves in a similar situation. We had to go to train and receive the test results. We were asked to wait. At the same time, we left an hour later, a press conference was held, and we changed in the normal changing rooms. They did everything possible to make the team feel comfortable. This was not the case in Switzerland: the press conference was canceled, they were asked to change at the hotel, they were not allowed into the changing room so that the boys could change their boots. Even if they were very worried that the boys were infected … The same situation was with the Swiss team, they also had several players with positive tests. The whole world is experiencing this moment. We need to be more open and aware of this situation. Illness is a normal situation. This behavior was very strange to me. I do not like.
I can definitely say that we have fully complied with the protocol. We had enough players to play the game that day and the day after. I think it’s definitely not our fault. The commission will investigate and is bound to make the correct decision. The future of many situations will depend on him, which I would not even like to imagine.
UEFA must decide for itself. If there are dates to reproduce, this would be the best option. It must be played fair. The point is in this, the fate of the match must be decided in the game. If there is no free time for it, there are other mechanisms for it. But you cannot speak of a technical defeat for one or the other team. Neither Ukraine nor Switzerland should receive a technical defeat. It will be wrong, “Andriy Shevchenko said.
