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Armenian national football team coach Vardan Minasyan commented on Friday’s World Cup qualifier between Armenia and Italy held in Hrazdan stadium in Yerevan, in which Armenia lost 1-3 to Italy.

Vardan Minasyan told reporters after the match that he has dual feelings – on the one hand, defeat is not something to be happy with, on the other hand, obviously we showed a good game.

“The first thing I want to do is to congratulate the Italian team. Today we showed if not the best, one of our best games this year. We saw a kind of a game we expected to see. We were aggressive, but with the score of 1-1, the situation was the way that the team that would score first would win. I told the boys in the dressing room that I am happy with them. Don’t forget that this is Italy’s team, a team that has good tactics. I am sad now because I felt that we could win, but unfortunately we didn’t,” the Armenian coach said.

We have a promising squad and our success will follow, he added.