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"It was a good victory for us. We hadn't been able to win in front of our fans for a long time. We knew they were expecting that victory from us. It was an interesting and dynamic game. Neither team wanted to lose. The game started fast. There were goal episodes in the first half. We didn't start the second half well. Later, we took control of the game. We deservedly won. I congratulate our team. We will look at future games. Today, we have become one of the most interesting teams in the championship. We knew that "Kapaz" would be aggressive. There is a tense struggle in the last places. "Karvan-Yevlakh" also approached the game with us as a final. This also adds color to our championship".
Sport24.az reports that these words were said by Aykhan Abbasov, the head coach of "Shamakhi", at the press conference held after the match with "Kapaz" of the 29th round of the Misli Premier League. He answered journalists' questions:
- It is known that you will leave the team at the end of the season. Did the management consult you about who the new head coach should be?
- No, this is the management's decision. We haven't fully discussed it either. Because the championship is not over. We don't want to create opinions in the team and management all the time. Football players must approach professionally until the last game. We are like that too. If we discuss this now, it would be a bit unprofessional.
- Elvin Jafarguliyev has been sent to the reserve team. Are you worried about the situation with the national team?
- I am worried about all the football players nominated for the national team. We are not in a good situation. We have few potential football players. We cannot lose them either. Every club is free, every club has its decisions. Not only Elvin here, but there are other legionnaires who do not play in their clubs. We are not in a good situation at the moment. But we will have time in the summer. I believe that the new season will be good for everyone.
- There are 4 rounds left. With what motivation will the players go to the game?
- If the clubs playing for the championship and European Cups say this, it would not be true that our goal is to stay in the Premier League. There are 6 other teams that must first stay in the Premier League. This is not a guarantee either. It has been full of surprises for two years. No one expected which team would be in the last place. Because this is not a matter of budget. Our goal for two years has been to stay in the league. But we wanted it somewhere this season. We advanced in the cup. The draw was difficult for us. If we passed "Garabagh", we would face "Sabah". There were some times in the championship when we could have reached the top four if we won. We lost to "Araz-Nakhchivan" at home. We are more comfortable than in winter. We have not been in the relegation zone since the championship started. We have been superior to rivals close to us. There are some things that you see depend on the budget. If you want to play in European Cups, you have to keep up. We should not evaluate the championship with one game, we should look at it in general. If we look at it in general, the football players gave better than expected.
- Do you have discussions with the AFFA management about refereeing?
- When we talk to Jahangir muallim, we touch on all the topics in football. One of them is refereeing. Today, the federation wants the increase in referee mistakes to be low, the mistakes to be less. But we need to tell the reality, the clubs and the media are also to blame here. We create unnecessary hype about non-existent topics, sometimes we want to turn our football into a show. We look at the Turkish Super League a bit and equate it with those events. In such cases, our young referees sometimes cannot get rid of this pressure. Mistakes happen. During the events that happened to us, it was not experienced referees, but young people. We can't put everything on the referees either. I agree, there were very crude mistakes that violated the rights of the clubs. This must be said. But this is not a way out to erase and throw away the referees. We will not be able to find a referee tomorrow. You can't go over them this much either. When we openly discuss the mistakes, the referees are also afraid. Children's football, Premier League, I League, referees...If we raise the level of the championship, if the level of refereeing does not rise, there will be a lot of discontent.
