The specialist shared his opinion on the upcoming match in the Champions League.

The head coach of the Moldovan Sheriff Yuri Vernidub commented on the upcoming match against Donetsk Shakhtar in the Champions League group stage.

" It is important for me, because this club is a leader in the Ukrainian championship, it always fights for the highest awards..

An indicator of this - yesterday the president of the club, Renat Akhmetov, was congratulated and awarded. Over the 25 years during which he has been running the club, the team has become a 13-time champion of Ukraine, won cups many times, plus an achievement - the last UEFA Cup, which Shakhtar also took, so this speaks volumes.

I would like to play a good fighting match with them, of course, with a positive result, but how it will be - it's hard for me to say. I know that it will not be easy - very difficult, because the team is of a high level, they have a lot of Brazilians, I jokingly say that practically the Brazilian national team "

" I think they will come out assembled now, they will also want to prove that they are Shakhtar Donetsk, a club that represents Ukraine. They scored quite a few points in the piggy bank, which does not make me very happy either..

I am very upset that Kiev (approx. - Dynamo), that Shakhtar, that Zorya took very few points this year. And you know that next year it will already be without the team entering the group directly, but they will fight to get there - just like us, only we will be from the first round, for example, they will be from the third,.

I'm sure we have time - five days. Let's go away, come up, and there, as it already turns out. It's bad that there are a lot of injuries. We were knocked down by these two games with Inter and Real.

And the application, I already said that, unfortunately, we cannot do anything with it.. This may be a minus, but I am so happy and happy for the year I spent in Moldova.. The team has achieved a fairly serious result. I finally took part as head coach in the Champions League. It is worth a lot and it will remain in my memory for the rest of my life and the Sheriff club will really have a place in my heart for me "

Shakhtar vs Sheriff match will take place in Kiev, on Tuesday, December 7. The game will start at 22:00 Kiev time.