The head coach of Zorya Luhansk Patrick van Leeuwen told what he expects from the first match of his team against the Romanian Universitati in the 3rd qualifying round of the Conference League, which will be held today in Lublin, Poland.
“We have been preparing for this game for a long time. This will be the first match for Zorya after a long break, and we want to show our best, fight for a positive result and play for Ukraine.
We watched several last games of Universitati. I think that the work on studying the opponent has been done with high quality, and our team is fully ready for the match. We know that our opponent plays combinational, attacking, tactical football.
We have very talented young people who are eager to play. A line-up of predominantly young performers has its advantage, because such performers always add pace and emotion in training. If we consider the last month of our work, then the team only added. So a young squad is not a problem for us,” van Leeuwen said at the pre-match press conference held yesterday in Lublin.