Belarus football team will hold the final matches of the League of Nations

The intrigue in the Belarusian Football Championship is on pause: the international window connected with the draw of the League of Nations begins. In November, our team will hold the final matches of the group stage of the C League.

After four rounds in group C1, the Belarusian team takes second place in the group, gaining 7 points. Finland has the same. So far, Albania has 9 points. Our team continues to fight for the first position, which gives the right to promotion in the class. On November 12, the Belarusians will meet at a party with San Marino, on November 15 they will hold a nominally home match against Albania. At the same time, head coach Viktor Gancharenko notes that the team does not set far-reaching goals, preferring to move from match to match. Now it is important for the team to successfully meet with San Marino. The task of the players is to give all their strength in the upcoming duel. There are some developments for the match with Albania, but at the moment all the attention is focused on San Marino.

When choosing the composition, the coaching staff took into account the game’s “chemistry”, the health of the players and the risk of disqualification due to excessive yellow cards. In the November matches of the national team of Belarus will not be able to help Vitaly Lisakovich: he was out of action due to injury. Instead, Vladislav Morozov, who plays for the Danish club “Kolding”, got a chance to prove himself.

- I am very happy to come to the national team and return to my native country - everything is super, says Anton Lukashov. I think we are improving and working hard. I can describe our team as a fighter. Each player has strong qualities that can be emphasized, so it is difficult to single out one person and say who to look up to. The coaching staff is doing everything possible for the result. We have a lot of theoretical classes, the training process is well established. We try to absorb everything so that we can then bring it to the field.

Midfielder “ML Vitebsk” Valery Gromyko said that the team expects good results and wants to please the fans. According to the player, despite the tense situation in the national championship, the atmosphere in the dressing room remains combative and positive

- We all have one goal, so we don’t pay attention to the rest. There will always be people who criticize and those who support. Of course, we want the fans to stay with us even in the most difficult moments. We are happy that there are people who care about us and try to play for them.

Today, the Belarusian team will go to the city of Serravalle, where on Thursday they will play against the national team of San Marino. In the first round, we won 4-0. But with the Albanians, the result at the start was different: the opponents celebrated the victory - 2: 0.

OUR COMPOSITION

Goalkeepers: Pavel Pavlyuchenko (ML Vitebsk), Fedor Lapoukhov (CSKA, Sofia, Bulgaria), Andrey Kudravets (Dynamo, Minsk).

Defenders: Kirill Pechenin (“Wings of the Soviets”, Samara), Gleb Shevchenko (“Torpedo”, Moscow), Zakhar Volkov, Kirill Gomanov (both “ML Vitebsk”), Roman Begunov, Vladislav Kalinin (both “Dynamo”, Minsk), Ivan Tikhomirov (“Isloch”), Anton Lukashov (“Orenburg”).

Midfielders: Max Ebong (CSKA, Sofia, Bulgaria), Valery Gromyko, Valery Bocherov, Artem Kontseva (all - "ML Vitebsk"), Alexander Selyava ("Dynamo", Minsk), Artem Shumansky ("Akron", Togliatti), Anton Kovalev ("Torch", Voronezh), Alexander Svirepa ("Isloch"), Kirill Zinovich ("Dynamo", Makhachkala).

Forwarders: German Barkowski (Polonia, Warsaw, Poland), Karen Vardanyan (Dynamo, Minsk), Trofim Melnichenko (Port, Portugal), Timofey Simanenka (Gomel), Vladislav Morozov (Kolding, Denmark).

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