Published today, 22:00
With Real Madrid and PSG in the group have Shakhtar Donetsk has become this year’s Olympiakos for Malmo FF. The team you have to take points against if there is to be any chance of a Europa League spot. A task that is anything but easy for the people of Skåne.
With Real Madrid and PSG in the group have Shakhtar Donetsk has become this year’s Olympiakos for Malmo FF. The team you have to take points against if there is to be any chance of a Europa League spot. A task that is anything but easy for the people of Skåne.
During the leading hands of Ukraine’s richest man, Rinat Akhmetov, Shakhtar have been in the 2000s has grown to become the country’s best football club and impressed in Europe. In 2009 the team won the UEFA Cup in 2010-11 and took it to the quarterfinals of the Champions League against Barcelona. When Malmo FF now play their second Champions League campaign ever is the eleventh consecutive year that Shakhtar Donetsk in the tournament.
Recent years However, Shakhtar shaken considerably by the unrest prevailing in Ukraine. Since May 2014 the team for security reasons moved from Donetsk and the players now lives in a hotel in Kiev. Even home games have been moved from the Donbass Arena Lviv stadium in western Ukraine, which meant that Shakhtar had to get used to playing without their supporters.
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The situation also affected the club financially and for the first time in five years failed the team to win the Ukrainian premier league last season, it was also the first season in seven years as it was untitled.
This season Shakhtar started to resemble itself more and more again and currently leads to the Ukrainian Premier League. Even in the Champions League, the game looked good even though it lost both their opening matches against PSG and Real Madrid.
– We made mistakes that cost us the games and also the judges made some mistakes. But if you look at our game we played well and kept a similar level as both PSG and Real, said Sjacthartränaren Mircea Lucescu during Tuesday’s press conference.
The Romanian Sjacthartränaren also thinks that, Malmo FF impressed in the European game.
– Like both PSG and Real Madrid Malmö is a well-organized teams. They showed good results in qualifying and it was no simple task of
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Even Åge Hareide has respect for his opponent and believes that Shakhtar are better than Olympiakos as the MFF defeated in last year’s Champions League. But there are weaknesses in the offensive Shakhtar Malmo can use.
– The way they play football is very interesting, they dare much. They are aggressive and leaves get it home and where there are opportunities. We have offensive quality players who can punish them for it, said Åge Hareide during Tuesday’s press conference.
Some even Markus Rosenberg agreed.
– There are huge surfaces when they go, the next little Salzburg warning – full speed ahead. Moreover, they have very high backs, so there is space. The statistics clearly show that it is defensive as their problem.
A total of Shakhtar let in seven goals, three more than Malmö, in this year’s Champions League. But there is no doubt that it is the Ukrainians who are big favorites on Wednesday. Home Ground has previously given Malmo an advantage when playing in Europe and the atmosphere are likely to mean Malmo Players extra energy.
However, it is not clear if it will affect Shakhtar like it affected other teams.
There are few teams is just as habit of playing away and have the fans against them as Shakhtar. Since the move from Donetsk 2014 home games have been away games. The stadium in Lviv, it has been common to the majority of fans hejat the away team than Shakhtar. Something the players believe was one of the reasons that last season did not really went as planned. Now it is better and it seems as if they have learned to shut out the crowd if they will be affected by Malmö’s “himmaborg” remains to be seen.
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