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Shahin Diniyev: Our clubs have few chances to pass Euro Cup stages

21 July 2007 09:06 (UTC +04:00)

Our clubs have few chances to pass Euro Cup stages, head coach of Azerbaijan national football team Shahin Diniyev told the APA-Sport Agency.
Diniyev stressing that Khazar-Lenkeran f/c passing next stage in Champions League and Neftchi and MKT-Araz f/c in UEFA Cup will be hard said that improvement is felt in the participation of our clubs in continent matches in comparison with the previous years.
â€œWe do not face any shameful failures as it was in previous years. There is a progress. But there are several shortfalls. It will not be right to appreciate the fate of the team with one match. I think MKT-Araz has chance to pass next stage, as it showed good results in previous matches. But we can not say it about Neftchi. Though Gurban Gurbanovâ€™s team was close to the result 1:1, it missed two goals within last minutes,â€ he said.
Diniyev also commented on the participation of the footballers of the national team.
â€œI liked the performance of Zaur Hashimov in MKT-Araz f/c. I could not see the performance of Alexander Chertogano and Ramazan Abbasov as they did not participate in Neftchi f/c. I liked the performance of Branimir Subashich. He played well, but missed one goal in the match. We can not charge footballer for missing one goal,â€ he said. /APA-Sport/