The head coach of Karabakh Gurban Gurbanov shared his expectations from the tomorrow’s return match of the 3rd qualification round of the Champions League with the Hungarian “Ferencvaros”.
The game will take place in Budapest and will begin at 22:00 Baku time.
“We arrived in a very beautiful city,” says the mentor of Karabakh. “Now I saw the stadium. I think that at such a stadium it remains only to show good football against a very strong opponent. It is clear that both teams want to go further. We arrived. Here with a great desire to win and with faith in this. I said before that we are playing against a well -equipped team with masterful players. In any case, I believe in our players. We will try to show one of our best games tomorrow. We will fight until the end .
In comparison with the previous seasons, this time we get very strong rivals from the 1st round. Both Lech and Zurich are very serious opponents. Now we play with Ferencvarosh. If the Hungarians reached the 3rd round, then this is a really strong team. This team has no ordinary players in any line. All are very skilled, and build the game correctly. In the complex, this makes “Ferencvarosh” very strong. And they have a head coach, whom we all respect, who can build a good team. He has his own game style.
Perhaps the “Ferencvarosh” is stronger than our previous rivals. But we repeatedly played with teams that were stronger than us and were not afraid of them. They tried to show a decent game and win. It’s nice to play against such rivals.
Each match for us is a football battle. If we do not fight on the field, we will not be able to achieve a good result.
We spend better response games than the first? I would really like this this time. We need this to win. After the first game, we already know the opponent better. The head coach of Ferencvarosh also talks about this. Of course, we want to better analyze the opponent, but they do not sit still. There may be options that we did not think about. With each next round you need to be even more careful. “Ferencvarosh” is also very serious about this game and pays great attention to details. We do not know where the danger may come from. I think there will be an interesting game – both from the point of view of tactics and from the point of view of the struggle.
As I said, we respect Stanislav Cherchesov very much. Experienced specialist. He had a large football career, now – a large coaching career. A very strong coach, loves discipline in the team. Cherchesov is very demanding. You can talk a lot about him. I wish him success.
Do we interfere with long -range flights for the European Cup matches? Unfortunately, we have to overcome a long distance. But I don’t see such a big problem in this. The conditions for everyone are the same, since the rivals, coming to us, are making a long way.
In the first game, we did not have four main players. Tomorrow will not be two – Kevin Medina and Maxim Medvedev. I am glad that after the disqualification, Kadi and Richard Almeid returned. There are many options for rotation “.