Sport24.az
The Azerbaijani national team, which played its first match at the VI Islamic Solidarity Games, faced Libya. Sport24.az reports that Farid Abbasov, who was remembered with a hat-trick in the match, shared his thoughts about the game with azfutzal.az:
"Each of us fought excellently on the field. It was our first game under the leadership of the current head coach. We tried to make both the result good and stand out in the game plan. True, it was our first match in the Islamic Solidarity Games, so there were some nervous players in our team. But we all believed that we would win. We did not consider the opponent weak, we had great confidence in ourselves. Of course, no victory is easy to achieve. The game was tense. We conceded easy goals from standard situations. This also has certain objective and subjective reasons. But I would rather associate it with our lack of time in the national team camp.
I scored a hat-trick. This is my first such performance in the national team. It is important to score, the main thing is to help the team, to have a share in its progress. We wanted the national team to contribute to this joy at a time when we are experiencing days of victory".
It should be noted that the Azerbaijani national team, coached by Yevgeni Kuksevich, defeated Libya 5:4 yesterday.
