Head coach of Lugansk Zarya Yuri Vernidub on the match against Lviv Carpathians.

- I would like to begin by thanking the employees of the stadium "Ukraine" for the field that they prepared for us today. Yesterday, without any problems, we were given a pre-game training. This has not happened before. This suggests that now the Carpathians are doing everything in a European way. It is very nice.

As for the game, it was understood that it would not be easy. Whatever it was, "Carpathians" a good team. We are very good at training dismantled an opponent. The composition did not surprise us, as it was almost the same as they played on the training camps. Our team has a little rebuilt. One team was played, but they could not come up to the game Vasily Priyma, Evgeny Opanasenko, Maxim Lunev. This is a big loss. I hope that they will get the necessary game conditions as soon as possible. Plus there was no Suhar - a young and talented left-back from the Dnieper-1. He was disturbed by Achilles in the last two days and I decided not to take risks, so I did not include Timofey in the application for the match.

Good game was. We were unlucky in the first half, could score several times. In the second half of the meeting everything was calm. The game was under our control, and we deservedly won.

- What do you think about our newcomers, whom we saw today in the game?.

- All of them are players of a good class. I hope that they will be able to progress, grow and look even better.. Today, our defender Mohamed El Buazzati did not play.

I made a choice in favor of the more experienced Glory Checher. Understood that we need to play "zero" on the defensive. At 37, he looks pretty good and did not make a single mistake. Plus debuted for the main line-up Evgeny Cheberko, Alexander Tymchik and David Faupala. I hope in the future they will play even better.

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