The head coach of Karabakh Gurban Gurbanov shared his expectations before tomorrow’s first matches of the 3rd qualification round of the Champions League against the Hungarian “Ferencvaros”.
The match will take place tomorrow at the Tofika Bahramov Republican Stadium and will begin at 20:00.
“We will play against a good team who has a very strong head coach (Stanislav Cherchesov – Ed.). He is a specialist with extensive experience, one of the best in Russia. Cherchesov had a big career as a football player, and now a big coach Career.
We need to be very careful. We tried to study the opponent well. I believe in my players. I hope we play one of our best games tomorrow.
The media is a hype in connection with the upcoming games? These days I tried not to read the press. I saw that there are many opinions about this confrontation. At such moments you usually close. Perhaps this is a really interesting confrontation. But I have no excitement or pressure.
It is interesting to play against good teams and strong coaches. First of all, for my experience, for my potential. There will be intelligence games. It is always interesting to play against the team and coach with another system of the game.
We did not contact the transfer of the 1st game in the Championship of Azerbaijan. Afffa asked this, thanks to them. But we did not tolerate. We have football players who are important game practice for recruiting form.
“Ferencvarosh” – our strongest our opponent in this league of the Champions? If the Hungarians have reached this stage, then they are in better condition than our previous rivals. Hungarian championship is possibly stronger than ours. But we also have experience. We had a chance that we will try to use. Let’s see how it will turn out.
“Ferencvarosh” is a very balanced team, they have a good defense and an attack line. We will try to give worthy resistance.
How do I feel that VAR will work at the match tomorrow? This is an additional load for the players, because now nothing will be left without attention. I hope that tomorrow none of the teams will suffer from refereeing. We believe that there will be fair solutions. Sometimes, even with VAR, there are controversial verdicts. I hope that refereeing will not be discussed tomorrow. “