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The Ukrainian club can boast 100% result in the first group stage of Europa League. Today Shakhtar will begin their journey in the second stage of the tournament.
"To be honest I didn’t expect that we would be so successful", said Akhmedov to Sport Express. "I think that Shakhtar found our best game to demonstrate the most entertaining football".
"Shakhtar failed against Timosoara in the Champions League qualifier and it could be explained by two factors".
"Illness of Mircea Lucescu is the first reason of our failure. His assistants did everything possible, but it was not enough".
"And secondly, we won the UEFA Cup and maybe players didn’t have time to get down to the earth. In this situation Timosoara got a wonderful chance to defeat not only winner of the Eurocup, but the best modern Romanian coach".
"Plus they were lucky in Donetsk as they created two counterattacks which resulted in two goals. Shakhtar lost so many scoring opportunities, that means that players were not concentrated and hoped to seal an easy win".
"We have an ambitious club and ambitious supporters, who always set the highest targets. But I will be cautious about our main goal now and say that first of all we are set to finish the group stage atop of the standings".
"Victory in the Champions League is my dream and I will do everything I can to help Shakhtar do it. However I prefer to be realist and I understand that Ukrainian and Russian clubs won’t manage to win the Champions League in the near future".
