“Palkin said the Brazilians from Shakhtar are flying home”

Ingulets president Oleksandr Povoroznyuk commented on the situation with the Ingulets – Shakhtar party, which was canceled due to the poor state of the field.

As a result, Shakhtar won a technical victory.

– Do you think the legs in this matter grow from the Shakhtar?

– And there it is! The day before the game, I called the Pitmen general manager Serhiy Palkin and said: “Anatolyevich, let’s postpone this game, for example, for the spring. We are also ready to come tomorrow and play at the Olympic NSC. And he replied that the fate of the party would be decided by the FTC UAF, because supposedly we could not do anything. At 1:00 p.m. the next day, it must be decided whether the meeting will be held or not, and it was already announced at eight in the morning. What is there to talk about ?!

– Why did you offer to the Shakhtar to postpone the match, if you say that the field heating was on?

– They told me the night before the fight that something was wrong there. The match must be rescheduled. Shakhtar just didn’t want to play on that lawn. Yes, there were problems, but there was no ice on the grass.

– Pitmen football director Darijo Srna said Akhmetov wanted to pay for the stadium heating himself. Shakhtar offered you help?

– This is a real lie. Nobody offered us anything. I only spoke to Palkin, who immediately told me that the fate of the party would be decided by the FTC UAF. What does this have to do with it? There are two teams. Let me send a team to Kiev tomorrow, fund all the transfers and we will play this meeting. But Palkin told me that the Brazilian players from Shakhtar are flying home and there is nothing they can do. We were ready to play in one day and his Brazilians were already flying home on vacation.