At Shevchenko's age, after experiencing so many ups and downs, he had long since learned to take many things lightly.
His competitive drive, especially when facing Su Dong, had basically faded.
As he had said, after missing more than a month this year with a back strain, he had figured things out and let go of many things.
Now, he was focused entirely on enjoying the matches.
Especially matches like tonight's, watched by fans across Europe and even around the world.
Just one minute after kickoff, Dynamo Kyiv's left midfielder Yarmolenko forced his way down the left before crossing the ball in front of goal. Shevchenko cleverly shook off Kompany and David Luiz and rushed toward the goalmouth to challenge for it.
Unfortunately, Shevchenko's shot went just wide.
"Kyiv is very cold, and it started drizzling tonight. The local temperature has dropped below zero."
"Man City also had to travel a long way for this away match, and Dynamo Kyiv seized the initiative right after kickoff."
Su Dong let out a heavy breath, raised both hands high, and applauded forcefully, encouraging his nearby teammates.
At the same time, he looked toward Shevchenko, who was walking back. Shevchenko happened to look over as well and chuckled.
Showing off!
Su Dong had no doubt about Shevchenko's mood at that moment, but he also knew that Dynamo Kyiv was no easy opponent.
In an away match involving such a long journey, the most frightening opponent had never come from the field itself, but from the exhaustion and fatigue.
And that was with Man City having chartered a plane.
Without a chartered flight, traveling from Manchester to Amsterdam and then on to Kyiv would take twenty hours. That would have been murderous!
Still, Dynamo Kyiv's opening attack, and Shevchenko's shot in particular, had gotten