The last two news stories of the youth of Ukraine before the match with the Serbs are a loss
– Ruslan Petrovich, tomorrow in the youth national team of Ukraine last year and in general one of the most responsible matches of the qualifying tournament Euro-2023 (U-21). In this state, is the team approaching the match with the Serbs?
– In fact, the game with the Serbs will be fundamental and key for the Ukrainian national team. Serbia is a strong opponent in both team and individual actions. The players of this team work with the ball. We watched a lot of their matches, so we learned the strengths and weaknesses.
As for our team, first of all we had to recover well psychologically after the match in Northern Macedonia. The game came to us, we had to open the question of victory in the first half, but when we missed, about 15 minutes to consciousness. Then they started to create moments again and were created to succeed, but, unfortunately, not close to winning.
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– The youth in each match creates enough head moments, but goals are not very pleasing. Problem with attackers?
– It’s all about implementation, these days a lot of attention has been paid to this aspect. I hope we will see what we have achieved in tomorrow’s match.
– Has the game of the Serbian national team changed significantly after the first face-to-face meeting in September?
– So. Now it is a slightly different team, their head coach has changed. The Serbs began to play more vertically due to long passes.
– You said that this is our main competitor in the fight for another place. Is France out of competition?
– I said that the demands of the candidates to leave the groups will be France, Ukraine and Serbia, as well as Northern Macedonia, which will drink everyone’s blood.
– Is everyone in the team healthy?
– Unfortunately, there were no injuries. In the next match we will not be able to count on Oleksandr Nazarenko and Volodymyr Brazhko.
– Arena Lviv is a fort stadium for the main team of the country. The presence of fans will be allowed at the match tomorrow. How important is this for footballers?
– The support of spectators is always important, and even more so in such confrontations. We will be happy if there are as many fans as possible. The youth national team of Ukraine tries not to let down, – Rotanya quotes official UAF website.
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