The Ukrainian defender shared his thoughts before the game from Northern Macedonia.

Ukrainian national team director Vitaliy Mykolenko commented on the national team’s preparation for the Euro 2024 qualifying match against Pivnichnaya Macedonia.

" Today, someone else was feeling refreshed, but who already had full-time training. Not all the graves have reached our camp yet. Svatok and Riznik have not arrived yet, so the theory of the match with Pivnichnoy Macedonia and the analysis of the game with Italy will start tomorrow. Now full-scale preparation begins.

When the Italian national team played against the Macedonians, the field in Skopje was truly in a bad state, and in our match there was still a greater minority. It was not the field that became the reason for such an important relationship between them, but our land itself..

Even though we were still able to get it, I can overcome it.

For the upcoming match, I think, the football player and the coaching staff will need to learn some basics, and we will go into this match with new tactics,” the UAF press service quotes Mikolenko as saying..

Ukraine will play its next match against Pivnichnaya Macedonia. It will be on the 14th of June at 16:00 Kyiv time. On Football. ua online text broadcast of the match will be available.