Shakhtar coach apologizes to fans for Champions League performance

Shakhtar coach apologizes to fans for Champions League performance
November 24, 2011 - 11:07 AMT

PanARMENIAN.Net - Shakhtar FC coach Mircea Lucescu apologized to the squad’s fans after 0:2 loss to Porto on Nov 23, with the team losing hopes to progress to the Champions League knockout stage.

“The only thing I can say now is just to apologise to our supporters for our Champions League performance in 2011. We got off to a decent start in the Champions League, playing well enough until the moment when we bagged a brace against Porto away, followed by Rakytskyy’s suspension. And a topsy-turvy period commenced then, with something always going wrong with us. And that’s exactly what happened tonight: we dominated possession, having had two scoring chances when our shots were only able to rock the Porto goalpost. And nobody knows how it might have developed had we scored then. But it seems as if some years turn into a run of bad luck,” Shakhtar official website quoted the coach as saying.

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