Head coach of Romania's Mircea Lucescu shared his expectations from the upcoming match against the national team of Ukraine.

Head coach of Romania Mircea Lucescu is confident that the players of the national team of Ukraine will make additional efforts to win over his team.

"We will fight with a very well-organized team, a team that is better prepared in the physical plan. In the last match they ran seven kilometers more than we did, "Lucescu is quoted by the official website of the Turkish Football Federation.

"We will try not to leave them free space, because they know how to use it. But I think we will cope with this task with the help of technology and experience ".

"I have a long and long history of confrontation with them, so they will try to beat me at any cost. I, too, will do everything possible for the sake of victory ".

"They know us worse than we do them. Ukraine is a very good team, but Turkey has something to answer. It is not always possible to achieve the desired result, but we will concentrate on winning.

Ukraine will do everything to win this match, and we will approach the task with intelligence and caution ".

"Of course, Ukraine is more fortunate in that they will play in front of the 40,000 crowd that wants to see them at the World Championship in Russia, but this is also our goal,.

Qualifying match of World Cup 2018 between the national teams of Ukraine and Turkey will be held on Saturday, September 2. The beginning of the meeting at 21:45 Kiev time.