Oleksandr Zinchenko: The most important thing is that Spain plays at a different level

07.09.2020 02:27

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Together with the head coach of the national team of Ukraine Andrii Shevchenko at press conference after the match against Spain in Madrid (0: 4) blue and yellow midfielder Oleksandr Zinchenko took part.

"Everything was obvious today," Zinchenko said. - We have a place to grow. We made a lot of mistakes, our physical condition was not the best. But the most important thing is that Spain plays on a different level. We also want that. But we have a lot of work ahead of us to achieve this. It is good that such a failure has happened now, not at the Euro.   

- Is it possible to compare the pressure in the performance of Switzerland and Spain?

- The Swiss played according to a different scheme, they had three central defenders, and the flanking defenders were located very high. The Spaniards retreated more to the middle of the field and waited for the moment when they would close us, waiting for our mistakes. They created a numerical advantage in some areas and took the ball, and then competently used the holes in our defense.