Athletistic/ Football. On July 5, in the European Youth Championship 2023 match (under 21), Spain will play against Ukraine. The starting whistle will sound at 22:00 Moscow time.
Before the starting whistle for the group stage first round matches, bookmakers agree that the favorites for youth Euro 2023 are the Spaniards, who won the title by a coefficient of 5, 00. The Ukrainian team was in the second half of the list of candidates with a coefficient of around 20.0. At the same time, the group stage and the first round of the qualifiers showed that both teams are equally worthy of participating in such a high stage as the semi-finals. Moreover, the Spaniards and Ukrainians left group B together, where, following the results of three rounds, they showed almost the same results.
In the semi-finals, the bookmakers considered the five-time winner of the title of champions of the continent as the favorite, offering a coefficient of 1.34 to the passage of the Spaniards. Spain qualified for the tournament through qualifying group C, where they only lost the game against Russia. However, after the disqualification of the Russian team, the indicator of the Spaniards became one hundred percent – eight wins in eight meetings with 37 goals scored. At the Euro, the “red fury” began with a crushing victory over Romania with the score 3:0. The Spaniards dominated the game with the tournament hosts so much that victory over Croatia in the second round with a modest score of 1:0 thanks to a goal in the first minute caused some upsets.
The first personal meeting with Ukraine at the current Euro took place when both teams secured their participation in the qualifiers. In it, the “yellow-blue” twice took the lead, but twice the five-time champion managed to recover. A 2-2 draw saw the Spaniards reach the playoffs from first place due to a better goal difference of just one goal. In the quarter-final, Spain played to keep the score against Switzerland, but unlike the duel with Croatia, they missed stoppage time for the second half and had to prove their advantage in the semis. – overtime.
Ukraine in the first rounds of the group with a total score of 3:0 finished with Croatia and Romania, and in the first round of the playoffs beat the team with the most expensive formation among all participants of the tournament – France. Despite the fact that the teams’ first match ended with a score of 2:2, it took place in the absence of serious competition. The semi-final meeting will be completely different both in content and in the number of goals.
Andrey Andreev, Sport.Ru
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