We remember how Ukraine played Romania
Euro 2024 Ukrainian team will “open” for itself on June 17 with a match against Romanian national team. The match, which will take place in Munich at the Allianz Arena, will be the seventh match in history confrontation between Romania and Ukraine. Before the Euro 2024 match, we remember: how Ukraine played with Romania.
Three defeats at the start of a relationship
So far, the dispute between Romania and Ukraine is equal: both teams have won three matches. Moreover, interestingly, Romania won the first three matches, Ukraine won the next three. The goal difference is 14:10 in favor of Romania.
The first match between Romania and Ukraine took place in February 2001, and the last one so far took place in May 2016.
Five coaches of the Ukrainian national team
In the matches against Romania, Ukraine was led by five coaches. Moreover, only one of them, Leonid Buryak, played more than one match with Romania. In two matches under the leadership of Buryak, the blue-yellows of Romania lost.
Valery Lobanovsky also suffered defeat at the helm of the Ukrainian national team in the match with Romania. Miron Markevich, Yuri Kalitvitsev (in a penalty shootout) and Mikhail Fomenko won their matches against Romania.
Coaching dynasties in Romania
Three coaches were at the helm of the Romanian national team in the matches with Ukraine. Only one of them – Laszlo Boloni – played one match against the blue-yellows (he won).
The son of former Shakhtar and Dynamo coach Mircea Lucescu, Razvan Lucescu, played two matches at the helm of the Romanian national team against Ukraine. Three times the Romanian national team was led to matches with Ukraine by the father of the current coach of the Romanian team Edward Jordanescu – Angel Jordanescu. Jordanescu Sr. won two matches and lost one.
Konoplyanka is the top scorer of the Ukrainian national team in the matches with Romania
Eight Ukrainians scored goals against the Romanian national team. The best scorer of the Ukrainian national team in the matches with Romania is Evgeniy Konoplyanka, who scored two goals. Sergei Shishchenko, Alexander Aliyev, Yaroslav Rakytsky, Artem Milevsky, Roman Zozulya, Alexander Zinchenko and Andrey Yarmolenko scored one goal each (there was also an own goal by Tamás).
Andrey Yarmolenko is so far the author of the last “Ukrainian goal” against Romania. In May 2016, in the match between Romania and Ukraine, the winger scored in the 59th minute (Zozulya, Zinchenko and Konoplyanka also scored in that game). Of the blue-and-yellow players who played in that match, Stepanenko, Sidorchuk, Yarmolenko and Zinchenko can take the field today.
Source: Sportarena

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