Perisic was critical of PSV's display, stating that they "played no good football". He felt that the team struggled to create chances and that they needed to improve their ball control. "Today was very bad. We need to look at what we can do better," he said. Despite the disappointing result, Perisic remained optimistic, pointing out that PSV would have lost similar games last season. "We have seven games left," he noted.
Perisic also addressed the question of why PSV did not capitalise on the fact that three of Shakhtar's four defenders were yellow-carded after 63 minutes. "We tried to do that. It was not our day today," he replied. PSV will look to bounce back from this disappointing result when they face Sparta Rotterdam on Sunday at 20:00.