On the eve of the Vice-champion of Ukraine “Shakhtar” won the first match of the third qualifying round of the Champions League.
Almost the entire match, “Shakhtar” was hung on the gates of the “young boys” – the Pitmen in front of almost eight thousand fans regularly created dangerous chances, Mwogo, but the candidate for the national team of Switzerland was lucky only twice to take the ball from their possessions.
2-0 confirmed unconditional favoritism Shakhtar in a pair, but gave the Ukrainians maximum confidence in the peaceful life in the second leg which will be played on artificial turf.
Paulo Fonseca (FC Shakhtar): “Today could be another account. If you look at the number of created moments, then Shakhtar could have scored more. The team showed beautiful attacking football. We controlled the game, not counting the first ten minutes, when the opponent earned a couple of corner. Shakhtar showed attacking football and we played good defense. Not only had goals scored”.
Adolf Hutter (“young boys”): “Naturally, Shakhtar deserved to win. We did well the first 15 minutes, and was a great chance Alexander Gerndt. But then we were pretty much difficult to keep the tempo at which we started, and the miner began to show the individual quality of players and the class.”
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