sports doctor Dmitry Babelyuk He was not happy with the decision made by Sean Dyche, the head coach of English Nottingham, in the match against Dutch Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1).

The Foresters’ coach has given Ukraine national team defender Alexander Zinchenko a place in the starting squad after the player missed nine matches due to injury.

“These old-school coaches never cease to amaze. In 2025, with the advancement of sports science and medicine, I don’t understand how it is possible to release a player from the winger position for a full 90 minutes at the same time after two muscle injuries.

First, Moyes did this to Mikolenko, which led to Vitaly’s relapse. Now Dyche makes the same obvious mistakes.

Understanding that Zinchenko is a player who has regularly suffered from muscle problems in recent seasons; injured twice at Nottingham in the last three months; Having not played for the last six weeks, I cannot imagine how anyone could be so negligent in getting a player into top playing form.

This is not often seen in the new generation of coaches such as Thomas Frank or Enzo Mareschi, but the old ones continue to rely on their own emotions, leaving players in danger of unnecessary relapses.

I hope everything goes well for Sasha and he returns to his best form, but playing 90 minutes at a time after two months of treatment is outright stupidity in modern football at the top level,” Babelyuk raged.

Nottingham Forest manager Sean Dyche The performance of the players who returned to the field after their injuries in the 6th round match against Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1) was evaluated as follows:

“I’m happy for a lot of the players. Douglas Louis only trained for two days. I don’t usually do that, but he talked to me and said he felt good. He wanted to play.”

“Zinchenko did an incredible job” for the full 90 minutes. We didn’t have such a plan, but we can only make a certain number of changes.

Murillo returned after a week’s illness. We had to be careful with him.

It was difficult to make sound decisions about who would play, who would not play, and how many minutes he would stay on the field. But in the end everything went well and I am very happy.”

Roma’s coach Gian Piero Gasperini He summarized the results of the match against Celtic (3:0) and talked about the progress made by Ferguson and the differences between the matches in the European tournament and Serie A.

– Fiorentina won, Roma beat, Bologna won; It was a good evening for Italian football.

– Yes, it was necessary. We need it. And it is never easy to win away on such fields, in such beautiful historical stadiums full of spectators. It was a great match.

– We really liked your courage to update the squad: five changes with Pisilli and El-Ainaoui, Rensch adding freshness and dynamics, and up front with El-Shaarawy and especially Ferguson.

– Yes, they all deserve it. This is the point where important evaluations of the season need to be made, and these need to be made in important matches. But there was this. It is never easy to play against teams with very positive results in such stadiums. The performances of Pisilli, Ferguson and other players give them confidence and expand the team.

– As for Ferguson, did you use the “carrot-and-stick” method?

– No. Ferguson did in the match what he had recently done in training. He’s a young man, you need some patience. Besides the goals – the latter was great – the game itself is also important: intensity, spirit, the ability to run and not lose courage and show your qualities.

– Will there be a risk of saying “We found a striker, Ferguson” in January and not completing the “masterpiece” you have built?

– It would be great if this happens. But as I said, these are young players who can make a breakthrough and provide stability at any time. It would be nice. We will talk about the January transfer market later: we still have many important matches at the moment.

– In Europe, you have to dominate physically. You said, “We are not tired, maybe we are psychologically tired.” So what is the real difference in our championship?

– You meet the leading teams of the championships in Europe. These are more open matches because they are confident and attack with many players. This is a different football to ours, where there is often less space and opportunities to play. At the same time, you are faced with very dangerous attackers. It’s a different kind of football: I wouldn’t say it’s easier, but it’s different.

– Return to physical form. With such a busy schedule, today’s message is positive: you set the pace from the very beginning. Are you ok?

– Sometimes it’s easy to just talk about physical fitness. It all depends on many things. It’s not just running: Fatigue is often neural rather than muscular. Sometimes they underestimate the opponent, sometimes you encounter a very motivated team like on Sunday.

I think the guys are well prepared to play a few games a week: they showed that. What is not always easy is keeping your belief and motivation at maximum. And this is often confused with physical fitness, but it’s not just about that.

– While thinking about the Roma-Como match: Will El Ainaoui, who played a great match today, be able to take the field?

– We’ll probably find out tomorrow. We hope for him and Ndika. This may be important, but it’s not just up to us. However, we will have to play the next matches without two players who showed themselves to be very important today. But Pisilli grew up, played well and I am very happy for him. We have resources in the team and although these are two important parts of the composition, we will try to compensate for their absence.