Football. ua presents to your attention the announcement of the match of the 1/2 finals of the European Championship among U-19 Ukraine - Portugal.

On Wednesday, July 26, the Ukrainian national team U-19 will hold the match of the semifinal of the European Championship-2018 against the one-year-old from Portugal.

From the very beginning it is worth noting that, as if this match was not over, the Ukrainian team U-19 has already managed to surprise everyone and achieved an excellent result, having come out of a difficult group, gaining seven points. Nobody expected that young Ukrainians will be able to defeat France U-19, this victory is by right sensational in nature.

Despite the fact that the Portuguese team has allowed itself to overtake Italy, taking second place, is still considered the favorite not only of the match against Ukraine U-19, but the whole tournament. There is at least one reason - two years ago Portugal won the Euro U-17. Virtually the whole team is now playing for U-19. By the way, Ukraine also played for Euro U-17, but failed to leave the group.

Special attention to young Ukrainians should be given to Jose Gomes - striker Benfica, who was the best scorer of the Portuguese in the Euro U-17. He is the leader of the "elected" on an equal footing with Diogo Dalot (Manchester United) and Domingos Keen (West Ham).

It would be logical to assume that the Ukrainians will give the territorial advantage to the Portuguese, and they will act on counterattacks. Note that the Portuguese team had one day more to recover.

According to the version of the bookmaker Parimatch, Portugal U-19 is the favorite of this confrontation. The victory of the nominal guests is estimated by the coefficient 1.86, the draw - 3.65, and the victory of Ukraine - 3. 90.

Alexander Petrakov, head coach of Ukraine U-19 "Must enter the field of 11 killers. Football Killers. We do everything step by step. We must go to the finals of the European Championship. Believe us, this chance happens only once in a lifetime.

We wish you to become world champions further, but we are Ukraine, let's be realists.

And then there is such a chance, one game. Portugueses are stronger individually, each separately, there are no questions. But we are stronger as a team, we can not be killed by a forehead ".

Approximate compositions:.

Ukraine U-19: Kucheruk, Bondar, Popov, Safronov, Mikolenko, Drishlyuk, Kornienko, Buletsa, Hakhlev, Tsitaishvili, Supryaga.

Portugal U-19: Costa, Vinagre, Correia, Dalot, Correia, Florentina, Kina, Luis, Felipe, Trinquin, Gomes.

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