Incredible season for Shakhtar midfielder
Shakhtar halfback brace George Sudakov helped the national youth team of Ukraine beat your peers from France in the quarter-finals of Euro 2023 and win a ticket to the Olympics. For the midfielder Gornyakov himself, the goals in the duel with the French youth team became the second and third in the tournament, respectively, which allowed the Ukrainian come out on top in an argument the best snipers of the tournament. In addition, Sudakov has already become the top scorer of the Ukrainian youth team in the history of the European Championships.
Before Sudakov, the best snipers of the blue-and-yellows at the Euro, where Ukraine is playing for the third time, were ex-forwards of Dynamo and Shakhtar – Artem Milevsky and Ruslan Fomin. Each of the players scored two goals in Euro 2006, in which the blue-and-yellows reached the final. At the same time, 17 years ago, Milevsky and Fomin played five matches in the tournament. Sudakov has four matches played at Euro 2023 so far.
In 2006, the blue-and-yellows scored four goals in total. And Milevsky and Fomin scored in matches with the Netherlands (2:1) and Denmark (2:1) in the group. Sudakov at Euro 2023, in addition to two goals for France, also scored against Spain. True, it should be noted that Fomin scored two of his goals at Euro 2006 from a field goal, while Milevsky scored one goal from the penalty spot. Sudakov has two goals from the penalty spot out of three. At Euro 2011, the Ukrainians scored one goal in three matches – then Maxim Bely, who died early, scored.
At Euro 2023, Sudakov is the only player to score three goals. But two balls in the asset immediately 10 players. Five of them – England forwards Smith-Roe and Gordon, as well as Spain’s Ruiz, Miranda and Gomez (the latter two are defenders) will play in the semi-finals.
If we talk about the “goal + pass” system, then the Spaniard Gomez is in the lead here – adding two assists to his two goals. Frenchman Barcola also scored four points (2+2). Sudakov with three points in the asset shares the third-ninth place with seven players.
Source: Sportarena
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