The “blue and yellow” coach shared his thoughts after the game with the Belgians.

Head coach of the Ukrainian women's national team Volodymyr Pyatenko commented on the defeat in the first match of the Euro 2025 playoffs against Belgium (0:2).

" They were confident of a quick goal, but in the middle of the first half they slowed down, and the Belgians took control of the ball. At the end of the first half, we started to rise higher.

Another half - the same ones, but, unfortunately, did not quickly win the favors of the Belgians, they came out under pressure. For additional substitutions, they were trying to force an attack, in order to dominate in the other half of the field and try to win. However, unfortunately, we missed the counterattack.

Those who planned for us - victorious, well done girls. It was only halfway through the first half when the Belgians took control of the ball, transferred it from flank to flank, and gave them a little time to think. Wanting to finally finish the first half, they began to act more and tried to dominate the other half of the half.

Conceded goals at compensation hour? There is no loss of concentration. They finally tried to change the move, score, but the Belgians again, after all, the size of the ball brought the ball, they were capped. It's not a loss of concentration, it's not a loss of concentration, it's not a matter of magnetization.

The mood is obviously that everyone is embarrassed, and there’s still another match.

So, for example, this is another ball... However, I don’t think it’s possible to stop the team. The girls were hanging out everywhere. Belgium is a good team, there will be even more encouragement on the road. Ale, perhaps, rahunok 2:0, relax the supernitsa even more, and we will be more motivated,” suggest the words of Pyatenka Suspilne Sport.

Guess what, the match will take place on the 3rd stage in Leuven, Belgium. The starting whistle blows at 21:15 outside Kiev.