Ruslan Rotan: We defeated Kryvbas at the cost of great effort

The head coach of Zhytomyr "Polissya" Ruslan Rotan commented on the home match of the 20th round of the UPL against Kryvyi Rih "Kryvbas" - 2:0 on the air of UPL TV.

- Ruslan Petrovych, I congratulate you on the victory. Today, three points are very important. How would you assess the actions of your team?

- I am pleased with the guys. First of all, with their attitude. The fact that the guys understand perfectly well: you need to give it your all, you need to make the intensity higher. And today was just the day when they worked at their maximum, and deservedly, let's say, we won today.

- The last match was somewhere like that very emotional for your team. Can we say that today we "returned ours", because we returned to third position?

- At the cost of great efforts, I think. Because a compliment to the guys needs to be said here. Emotionally, the game that took place a week ago took a lot of emotions and strength. Therefore, being able to recover psychologically and be "evil" again in a week, wanting to win again is, first of all, a compliment for the players.

- Regarding these three substitutions in the 60th minute: can we say that this was already a preparation for the cup match that will be ahead in the middle of the week?

- No, not at all. We were only thinking about today's game. These substitutions were only dictated by the fact that we wanted to maintain the intensity. It started to decrease somewhere, because the guys we replaced worked 60 minutes at the maximum. Therefore, we thank them for that - they did their job. Other performers came out, and they also had high intensity and high motivation and helped the team.

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