Milan Vukotić: Our goal is to put a smile on everyone's face - both ourselves and everyone who wrote us off in the past.

The Montenegrin national football team has two more World Cup qualifiers ahead of them, after which another cycle will be brought to an end - the "brave falcons" will visit Gibraltar on Friday (20:45), and on Monday, in Podgorica, they will welcome Croatia (20:45).

Montenegro suffered a major humiliation in the Faroe Islands last month (4:0), and ahead of the new gathering, coach Mirko Vučinić said that all focus is on the match against Gibraltar.

Vučinić has entered the process of rejuvenating the selection, and one of the young players on the team, Milan Vukotić, says that the next two matches could be a nice overture for the coming period.

"I'm not afraid of failure. Our team is rejuvenated, but that shouldn't put pressure on us, but rather motivate us to work even better and harder and enter the game that awaits us on Friday as prepared as possible," said Vukotić.

Young players are expected to slowly take on responsibility.

"The coach is asking us to force the passing game and is giving us support. We young players need to have more self-confidence, take risks and start looking better from match to match in order to achieve some nice results," Vukotić pointed out.

The "Brave Falcons" must show on the field that they are better than Gibraltar.

"It's up to us to do our best in these two games to win. We are much better than Gibraltar, but this story makes no sense if we don't show it on the field. We want to please the Montenegrin public and give everyone the right to believe that this generation can do great things in the future. The next two matches can be a nice overture for the coming period. Our goal is to put a smile on our faces - both for ourselves and for everyone who wrote us off in the previous period, to restore faith in ourselves and trust in the national team," said Vukotić.

Montenegro will face an artificial pitch in Gibraltar, which means that the team will be without captain Stevan Jovetić.

"It's inconvenient, because 90 percent of national team players in clubs play on natural grass. The artificial surface is a problem in some segments, it's harder to control the ball, but we have to get used to it," Vukotić pointed out.

Montenegro defeated Gibraltar in Nikšić in March after a 3:1 comeback. Before that, our team recorded two victories in the qualifiers for the World Cup in Qatar.

"They have a similar style of play to the Farani. They are quite strong, we will have to win 'second' balls because they are good at that. We will try to score as soon as possible and then turn the game to our advantage," said Vukotić.

After Gibraltar, the last match in the qualifiers follows - on Monday in Podgorica against Croatia.

"The coach didn't forbid us from talking about the Croatians, but we don't want to think about that match. They are a much better team than Gibraltar, they will have completely different demands. But we will talk about that when the time comes, right now we are only thinking about Gibraltar," concluded Vukotić.