Arsenal's defender-Kyiv Alexey Maydanevich shared his expectations from the upcoming match against ULG against the Desna.

"Desna is a very good team. It consists of qualified players. The strength is that they are played because they play together for a long time. After the promotion in the class the main group of players has remained and now it helps the team to show a good and balanced game, "said Maidanevich.

"I would say that our future rival has a force, an attacking team. A good team has come up, the players of which know how to achieve the set tasks. For us, the game will be principled, especially for those players who stayed with the championship team for the First League. We are only set to win, because losing the second match in a row is absolutely unacceptable ".

"Again, the players of the Desna play together for a long time and they have better mutual understanding, but we also have strong playing sides for which we count in the forthcoming meeting. Now we are creating a new team that is just starting its way. A lot of players who recently only joined the team. It is rather difficult at the first stage to immediately give the result. We need time".

"I do not know how much it needs, but I'm sure that by grinding in the composition and searching for the best game combinations our coach staff will be able to build a strong team and find, as they say, the golden mean. Somewhere we already succeeded in this. Tied with Chernomorets, on the road won the Carpathians.

Although after this there was a disastrous match with Zarei, but overall there is a change for the better, which adds optimism and inspires confidence in the guys ".

"I think we will soon be able to achieve the results expected of us. On this idea, I think, how the team works in training, there is unity and cohesion ".

Match of the eighth round of the Ukrainian Premier League between Desna and Arsenal-Kiev will take place on Friday, September 14. Beginning of the meeting at 19:00 Kyiv time.