Mircea Lucescu urges Shakhtar Donetsk to step up against Zenit St. Petersburg: UEFA Champions League
Shakhtar Donetsk head coach, Mircea Lucescu revealed his frustration on the current results of his side in the group stages of UEFA Champions League and urged his side to gear up in the upcoming European encounter against Zenit
St. Petersburg at Donbass Arena.
Having claimed a point against FC Apoel in the latest group stage tie, the Miners responded well to the 2-1 defeat against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Porto-c39186 in the Champions League. Shakhtar are currently at the bottom of the group table and in desperate
need of a win for their survival in the cup tournament.
Shakhtar managed to reach the quarter finals of the Champions League last year before they were knocked-out by the defending UEFA Champions League winners, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/FC-Barcelona-c39078.
Lucescu admitted that the Ukrainian Premier League champions are under pressure and they need to kick start winning if they are to progress to the later stages of the tournament.
“It is not easy to play when there is a lot of pressure to achieve maximum results. And we are in a situation that we need to win the remaining matches in the Champions League. But we have experienced players who know how to act
in the critical situation.” The former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 Milan manager was quoted as saying.
Zenit leading goal scorer http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Aleksandr-Anyukov-c4549 are set to miss the crunch away clash, as the star duo is out injured.
Speaking on the absence of the Meshki star players, Lucescu said:
“We played a lot of games without our leading players: http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Dmytro-Chygrynskiy-c11449 and we will be without our key defender, Yaroslav Rakitskiy tomorrow.”
He added: “The venue is the same for both teams, so the better team will win.”
The UEFA Cup winner revealed that Zenit head coach, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Luciano-c22574 Spalletti has a terrific squad to replace his injured players.
Lucescu highlighted FC Barcelona and Real Madrid depends upon their star strikers and gave the example of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ronaldo-c31734.
The Romanian coach is of the opinion that the star duo is arguably irreplaceable and admitted that everybody else can be replaced.
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