JOVICEVIC: To move is just to kill. The same applies to Dynamo and Dnieper-1

Shakhtar’s head coach, Igor Jovicevich, is pleased with the team’s performance in the Champions League group stage.

Shakhtar finished third and will continue to play in the Champions League.

“It would be a big step to reach the 1/8 finals in the Champions League. But still, as a team that has just started its journey, we have taken an incredible step. We can be proud of our first steps in the Champions League. We have to appreciate what we have achieved. Many top teams are in the Europa League. neither even participated and Barcelona were relegated to the Europa League.”

“And Leipzig deserved to win, they should be congratulated. We caught them when they had problems in the first game and those three points were very important to us.”

Europa League? Let’s continue to build the team. We have a foundation, we need to build a house. You can’t build a team in three months. We should be happy that Ukraine has a lot of great and promising players.

“Many people in Europe don’t understand how we train under sirens and then go to the bunker and come back. We have 10 hour rides that just kill. The same is true for Dynamo and Dnipro-1. But we have to keep working,” said Jovicević.