Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin said everyone at Shakhtar Donets ‘blindly believes’ they can turn around the 3-0 defeat from the first leg against Roma.
The Giallorossi secured a big win at the Olimpico, but are now warned by Shakhtar’s goalkeeper to expect a battle for the place in the quarter-finals when in Ukraine.
Goalkeeper Anatoliy Trubin said everyone at Shakhtar Donets ‘blindly believes’ they can turn around the 3-0 defeat from the first leg against Roma.
The Giallorossi secured a big win at the Olimpico, but are now warned by Shakhtar’s goalkeeper to expect a battle for the place in the quarter-finals when in Ukraine.
“I assure you that every member of Shakhtar, from the players to the coach, from the medical staff to the management, from the President to the warehouse manager, blindly believes in the comeback against Roma,” he told Tuttomercatoweb.
“We are all convinced we can do it and we will be until the last second of the match. Our team will give 200 per cent to prove that the first leg was an accident, a mistake.”
The 19-year-old goalkeeper has kept 15 clean sheets in his 29 competitive games and in Italy they compare the youngster to Milan and Italy shot stopper Gianluigi Donnarumma.
“It doesn’t affect me,” he said. “Donnarumma is Donnarumma, Trubin is Trubin.
“I’m not the Donnarumma of Ukraine, I’m none other than the Ukrainian Trubin.”
Roma coach Paulo Fonseca returns to his former club tonight and Trubin got his debut for Shakhtar under the Portuguese coach.
“Paulo is a good coach,” he said. “He has great discipline and tactical preparation.
“I made my debut in the first team thanks to him. Fonseca was in fact the first to give me a chance, opening the doors of professional football to me.
“That’s why I have only good memories of him, although we only worked together for six months.”