Roman Yaremchukone of Ukraine’s most experienced players, spoke after the heavy defeat against Romania in the opening match of Euro 2024: “There are no excuses. Today we didn’t show our game and we didn’t follow the coach’s instructions “Romania deserved this victory, we need to have a good conversation in the dressing room and move forward,” the striker told UEFA’s official channels.
It’s very difficult to say anything after a match like that and I want to avoid getting carried away by emotions. We lost, our opponents won and I congratulate them. We will prepare for the next matches and we will have to give our best, we must unite and draw the right conclusions.”
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)