Home match with the German Bayer, opening the second round of the group stage of the Champions League, will be to "Shakhtar" key in the fight for getting into the play-off the main European competition. After three rounds of competition in Group A team Mircea Lucescu is located at the third position, having won in Spain Real Sociedad - 2:0, bringing home game in a draw with Manchester United - 1:1, as well as the devastating losing to Leverkusen Bayer - 0:4.
Despite the failure of the last round, the chances of "miners" to get one of the two tickets to the next stage of the Champions League is not too small. From the heads of the British group, which expects the match on Tuesday in San Sebastian, Ukrainian club behind only three points? A Bayer, who is ahead by two points Donetsk "Shakhtar" today can get ahead in the case of domestic success.
According to head coach of Shakhtar Mircea Lucescu, the score an away game with Leverkusen is not fully printed out what was happening on the field. And after a meeting at the BayArena, and at yesterday's pre-match press conference Romanian specialist persistently pointed out the errors allegedly committed by the arbitrator Stephen Lanois during the second and third take Donetsk gate. They are said Lucescu, led to the players, "Miner" demoralized, no longer perform the installation of the match and therefore missed the fourth goal for the blunder goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov.
Mircea Lucescu also noted that the strength of "Shakhtar" and Bayer are absolutely equal, moreover, in the opinion of the coach, leverkuzentsy afraid Ukrainian champion. It is expressed in the fact that on Saturday the team Sami Hyypia in the away match against Eintracht Braunschweig operated by half reserve composition. In this case, Hyypia left outside the base leaders Bayer - who made the game with the "Miner" double Stefan Kiessling and Sidney Sam, who scored the goal as "miners." Being without their help, the first minutes of the meeting until the middle of the second half, when both players took to the replacement leverkuzentsy gave the underdog - 0:1. As a result, Bayer behind the head of the standings Bayern Munich on four points of the second-place Borussia Dortmund - three.
"Shakhtar" also unsuccessfully made in the last round of the national championship. If we compare the line-up of "miners" in Leverkusen and in Friday's game with "Volyn" Mircea Lucescu fielded seven new players.
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