Andriy Shevchenko: “In the next matches you can expect debuts in the national team”

On the eve of a friendly match with the national teamю Estonia hosted a press conference by head coach of the national team of Ukraine Andriy Shevchenko.

- What is the current personnel situation in the team, in what condition is Mykolenko? Is his participation in the upcoming matches in question?

- Mykolenko passed inspection, no serious problems are revealed. We plan to prepare for the second game with the Serbian national team. Konoplyanka recovered from the injury, but his temperature rose, he will not take part in training today. Shepelev had a small problem, but now he is fine. In the same way everything is fine with the rest of the players.

- How ready is the team to demonstrate its best qualities in a match that, in fact, decides nothing?

- Motivation will always be. In particular, those players who were less involved before. Some players will not take part in matches due to injury or disqualification, so others will have a chance. In addition, we can still meet this opponent in the future, so a positive result now will not hurt.

- What are the chances of Dynamo defender Popov to get into your team?

- He now plays for the youth national team of Ukraine. This team operates according to the same structure of the game as the national one. We will watch Popov. He successfully plays for his club, we are happy for him. Let him get a permanent place in the main lineup, and we will consider him as a candidate for the national team.

- Will the last match of Dynamo against Shakhtar, in which there were a lot of emotions, scandal, affect the atmosphere in the team?

- Personally, I was very pleased to see how Dynamo players reacted to the situation in Kharkiv by supporting Shakhtar players. Racism has no place in Ukrainian football. We must unite against this problem and fight it together.

- How can you comment on the challenge to the national team of Ivanisen?

- This footballer acts as a supporting midfielder, he successfully plays for Zorya. We watched him for a long time, now we have invited him. We plan to use him in the same position - as a supporter.

- There have been few debuts in the national team lately. Can we expect the debut of new players in the matches that will take place in November?  

- Yes, it is quite possible.

- Now there are health problemsin YInchenka, family affairs in Malinowski, disqualified Stepanenko. Does this mean that new stars will heat up'ulcers in the center of the field?

- Yes, Malinowski is waiting for replenishment in the family. We hope he will be fine. We gave him a few days off, he will join the team in the second part of the training camp when we fly to Belgrade. As for the lineup, we will decide immediately before the matches. Zinchenko had a minor injury, we hope he will recover.

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