Ilham Yadullayev: It's a bit difficult to motivate football players

I thank "Shimal". It was an interesting game. We analyzed the opponent. In the last two rounds, they defeated "Baku Sporting" and took points from the leader "Shafa". We knew that they wanted to rise above the last place in order not to fall into the Second League. They were very eager. We also came to Shamakhi for 3 points. Unfortunately, we couldn't take advantage of the chances we had. The opponent also had chances. I think the fair result of the game was a draw.

This was stated by Ilham Yadullayev, the head coach of MOIK, who is competing in the First Division of football.

He spoke about the match they played 1:1 with Khachmaz's "Shimal" team in the last round. Most likely, the "military" will finish the championship in sixth place. How difficult is it to motivate a team that has no goals left? The 50-year-old coach, a former veteran football player of our national team, "Neftchi", "Shamkir", "Kapaz" and "Karvan", also spoke about this:

"There is motivation for every game. The team has goals. When we came here, we decided to create a good fighting team. I think we have achieved this. I'm not saying that we were playing for high places. Today we are in the middle of the tournament table. We try to go to every game with motivation. It is true that it is a little difficult to motivate the players, since we will not go up and we will not fall down. But this is our job. We will go for 3 points until the last game of the championship," he said in a statement to prosport.az.

Ilham Yadullayev said the following about the away match with "Mingachevir", whose financial situation is not encouraging, in the next round:

"Our next opponent is in third place and is fighting for second place. They lost in the last round. But I think it's a strong, strong opponent. We will analyze it. At least we will try to return from Mingachevir with 1 point."