Lugansk Zari coach Yuri Vernidub shared his impressions of the historic victory of his team in the match against Athletic (0: 1).

- Understood, with whom we have to play. I can only say kind words to Athletic. Good level team. They have a difficult schedule. Ahead of the match with Valencia. Perhaps there was an underestimation. I thought there will be rotations, but I did not see a special rotation. Only in the line of defense - the two extreme defenders and the central defender. All the rest are the leading players of the club.

We played well, managed to score and keep score. Although, Athletic created a lot of moments. Today, fart, which we talked about two games ago, when we played against the Carpathians and against Vorskla smiled at us.

Great merit of the defense line, together with our young goalkeeper Andrei Lunin. I am very happy.

- What were your first emotions right after the final whistle?.

- Joy and pride for the guys. I managed to reach them. Those words that they spoke yesterday before the pre-game training and today before the match they heard. We did everything we agreed on. If this goes on, then we all get better. At least the third match in a row we are demonstrating a good game.

- Could Athletic surprise you?.

- The opponent did not surprise us at all. Perfectly understood that Athletic is playing at home. They love to control the ball. We consciously gave them this control on their half of the field. As soon as they crossed over to our side, we immediately entered into collective selection. Did not give the Spaniards the opportunity to conduct a quick attack. In my opinion, it was noticeable. Even in some moments the rostrums whistled. They had no further development of the attack. All their favorite areas were blocked.

- Captain's armband Karavaeva is this seriously and for a long time?.

- Sasha is worthy of this bandage. If Nikita Kamenyuk returns to the ranks, then it will be the captain's bandage. At the moment I was in search of the player who could become a leader. At all I do not want to offend either Glory Checher or Dima Grechishkin, who dressed the bandage earlier. Alexander Karavaev is a football player who, I hope, will soon be called again in the National team of Ukraine and will become the leader of the Dawn.

- Dmitry Grechishkin in recent matches is not playing on his usual position. Is it possible to say that now he will always act in the center of defense?.

- Dima at this position shows an excellent game. While there is no sense to change something. Qualitative central defenders are not so many. Dmitry Grechishkin, just a quality central defender.

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