Peter Ithodo: "I wanted to score"
Forward of "Metalist 1925" Peter Itodo commented on the winning match against "Obolon":
- Peter, we have to ask you right away about your goal. Tell us, what were your emotions after this match?
- First of all, I want to thank everyone for fighting until the end. I wanted to score and didn't think about anything else, walking from the locker room to the field. We just wanted to win, that's all. We wanted to go out on the field to win the game.
- We saw quite an experimental acrobatic celebration from you. Do you practice that in training?
- I just scored a goal. It was a burst of emotions. Sometimes I do that when I manage to score important goals.
- I have to ask about the incident when you collided with the opponent's goalkeeper. This incident happened in the first half, but the referee didn't go to check VAR back then. In your opinion, was there a collision?
- Yes. The goalkeeper hit me in the knee, it was a foul. I thought the referee would go check VAR because I was hit. In my opinion, it was a penalty, but the referee didn't give it. We just need to forget about it and move on. I'm sure he hit me with his foot.
- One could say that the first goal by your teammate Churko charged up the team, gave energy. After all, the next goal was scored just 4 minutes later.
- After the first half, we went to the locker room and immediately saw the coach, who was not very happy. He didn't even give any advice, just said, "Go out and give your best, you just need to give your all, win, and everyone will be happy." Now everyone in the locker room is very happy because we won this game.
- A question from the studio about the pass. Was it intentional, did you thank Antyukh afterwards?
- I knew Denis would make a pass to that area. I knew it would be easy. He tells me, "Every time go to the near post and I'll just pass it there."
- Results in the last month and a half were not the best, the scores in the matches were unstable. However, today an important victory happened. Tell us, why were the results so unstable?
- We had a crisis, there were many injuries. Even I almost didn't train for three weeks. We had many players from the U-19 team, we simply lacked players for squad depth. Now I'm back, for the first time after the injury I started the game from the beginning. The situation is getting better now, many injuries are behind us. It seems that things will be better from now on, many players have returned to the main squad after injuries.
