Serhiy Rebrov's protégés are preparing in Benidorm, Spain, and the team has entered a regimen of two training sessions per day — morning and evening. Defender Maxim Taloviyov shared his thoughts.

"I feel good right now, I'm positively oriented. I really want to see all the guys because I've missed them. We haven't seen each other for four months already. Only the best emotions, always happy to come back to the national team!"

Belgium is a very classy opponent. I remember our meeting with them at Euro-2024. So I think there will be very interesting matches. The Belgians have changed their coach, so players will work hard to prove their necessity in the team. A tough challenge awaits us, but we'll prepare for it. There were cases when after a coaching change teams started playing like 'Barcelona', and sometimes it was the opposite. We hope that in our games this won't help the Belgians.

My personal goal is to have a good camp and show coaches that I deserve to play in the squad. But most importantly, for our national team to win.

Lastly, I want to say to our fans who will be at the stadium to be loud as usual and support us. To those watching us on TV or online, I want to convey that they should be with us and believe in us. We feel it and we'll do everything to make our supporters happy," said Maxim Taloviyov.

We remind you that the play-off matches of the Nations League against Belgium will take place on March 20 in Murcia and on March 23 in Ghent.