Romania creates the big surprise and beats Ukraine in the European Cup

Romania celebrates in Germany. The French team won a historic 3-0 victory against Ukraine to open Group E of Euro 2024. .

The match started off quite competitive from the start. The first five minutes of the match were experienced with great intensity, where both teams were able to evaluate the opponent’s idea of ​​play.

So, after this deadline, Romania chose to entrust the role to Ukraine and found itself waiting on its own territory, a situation which sometimes even allowed the sole goalkeeper to remain in their own half.

Of course, well armed in defense, Romania knew how to take advantage of mistakes and quickly go out in search of the opposing goal. Thus, thanks to a counterattack, Florinel Coman had the chance to finish, but his attempt fell straight into the hands of Real Madrid goalkeeper Andriy Lunin .

In the 12th minute, Georgiy Sudakov had a chance for Ukraine. After advancing into the left sector, the attacking midfielder finished, but his shot was blocked at the right time by a defender.

The Auriazules’ next warning came in the 22nd minute. After a corner, the Romanian defense was upset. This situation was exploited by Artem Dovbyk who settled in and ended up shooting over the goal defended by Florin Nita.

The Habs’ strategy finally paid off in the 29th minute. The Ukrainian goalkeeper came under pressure from behind and ended up giving the ball to Dennis Man. He reacted quickly and assisted Nicolae Stanciu who fired a right-footed shot from outside the box which slipped into the keeper’s top right corner. .

While Ukraine tried to react, the second for Romania could arrive. Stanciu took a tight corner which crashed horizontally.

In this way and as the Ukrainians were unable to recover from the blow, both teams rested.

In the second half of the year, the situation worsened for Ukraine. In the 53rd minute, Razvan Marin took advantage of a rebound and kept the ball with a low shot that went under the goalkeeper’s arms. .

Four minutes later, the tricolors widened the gap further. Denis Dragus appeared in the small area to push the ball . Although there were a few moments of uncertainty as the VAR examined a possible forward position, The video referee determined that the player was in the correct position, declaring the partial score 3-0. .

Ukraine tried to score the goal in the final minutes. Georgiy Sudakov, Roman Yaremchuk and Mykhailo Mudryk had the clearest opportunities to achieve this, but without positive results.

It should be noted that this is the best result that Romania has achieved in a European Championship. Its best performance took place during the 2000 edition organized in Belgium and the Netherlands. On this occasion, they won what was their only victory in this competition so far (3-2 against England in the group stage). .

In the next date, the Ukrainian team will face Slovakia in the second date at the Düsseldorf Arena on Friday, June 21 at 9:00 a.m. Chile time. For its part, Romania will do the same against Belgium in Cologne this Saturday 22 of the same month at 3:00 p.m.