Armenia national football team head coach Yeghishe Melikyan has said that the results of the team’s upcoming matches against Kazakhstan and Moldova are not his primary concern.

“The result against Kazakhstan is not our top priority. I will not be discouraged if things do not work out for us this year. We need patient and consistent work for the team to start producing results. Before the official matches scheduled for the autumn, we need these games in order to understand our mistakes,” Melikyan told reporters during a pre-match press conference.

According to the head coach, the Kazakhstan national team is different this year and stronger than in previous seasons.

“We needed opponents that would resemble the teams we will face in the autumn. We selected teams that are neither very strong, nor average, nor weak. We needed opponents that would create problems for us on the pitch,” he said.

Melikyan stressed that he is not making promises that everything will immediately go well for the national team and urged supporters not to have excessively high expectations.

“I do not want to make big promises. We have a young team. A generational transition has taken place. I will not be disappointed if nothing works out for us this year. We need patience, and sooner or later this team will become a good team,” he said.

Armenia will host Kazakhstan in Yerevan on June 6, before facing Moldova on June 9.