Răzvan MarinRomania’s midfielder, scored the second of the three goals with which Iordanescu’s team overwhelmed Ukraine in the match on the first day of Group E of Euro 2024. These were the words of the midfielder owned by Cagliari on the official UEFA website: “It’s fantastic. I think 22 million Romanians are happy now, for sure: just thinking about people on the street celebrating gives me goosebumps.
I’m happy and we have to continue like this. We are excited, but we have to move forward step by step. The fact that we scored three goals and didn’t concede any is fantastic.”
The match scoreboard
Romania (4-2-3-1): Nita; Ratiu, Dragusin, Burca, Bancu; Marius Marin (75′ Rus), Razvan Marin; Stanciu (87′ Racovitan sv), Man (62′ Hagi); Coman (62′ Mihaila) Dragus 7 (75′ Puscas). Coach: Iordanescu.
Ukraine (4-3-3): Lunin; Konoplia (72′ Tymchyk), Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Zinchenko; Shaparenko (63′ Yaremchuk), Stepanenko (62′ Brazhko), Sudakov (83′ Malinovsky sv); Tsygankov (63′ Yarmolenko), Dovbyk, Mudryk. Coach: Rebrov.
Referee: Nyberg
Booked: Konoplia (U), Razvan Marin (R)
Scorers: 29′ Stanciu (R), 53′ Marin (R), 57′ Dragus (R)