The Blue and Yellow coach shared his thoughts after the game against Serbia.

The head coach of the Ukrainian national team U-19 Dmytro Mikhailenko commented on the victory of the “blue and yellow” in the match of the other round of the group stage of Euro 2026, which is why the Ukrainians reached the semifinals of the tournament and guaranteed.

" I honestly couldn’t even imagine that in two rounds we would literally spend it on the world championship. I’m pleased with it, one might say. Scored six points in such an important group. That's why I write so much about the boys, every one of them. I’m writing as a staff, who has done a good job.

Right off the bat, I'm the happiest person. Because it’s not as easy as it sounds. Tse buv dovgiy way, as I said before the game. These are not the two times that we worked in Poland. Not at all. In order to get here, you had to transfer a lot of vugilla.

Vitaly Glut? It's a surprise. This is a surprise for us, and I think for myself. You showed up at the gathering place literally three days before departure. We learned that we need more gravitationalists in better physical form, of a different level. And from simply we seem to be Vitalik Glut, with whom I was in Croatia two years ago in 2008. We dialed it, let the club go. We thought about eating more with a replacement, there are 15-20 khvilins, because we know it’s yummy. But the situation turned out so bad that they gave you the first hell of a lot of damage and it was simply miraculous.

Another match is skipped by the first, then played - as a sign of class and character? This is more a sign of character. І the correct reaction to this missed ball. We didn’t panic, we didn’t start to rush around, try to make any kind of arrangements. They played what they wanted, those they wanted before the war.

Missing the ball is such a mercy, which in the future we would like to prevent. Because the game was under our control, Serbia was leaving, they didn’t know how to pick up the ball. We still needed to trim it reliably and control the group. Sorry we missed it. Ale reaction of the team was amazing. They started to create, they started singing, they dominated.

I would like to add one more point: in this warehouse there were five graves in 2008. Young people on the river. This is also about the potential of our youth football. — The match with Italy is ahead.

Sit in the first place. I think it’s a day of honor and dates for the Gravians, as they didn’t play. Because it is important that the stench is fresh. So let's come to the hotel right away and figure it out. We marvel at the tribute - how the boys did it. We will now make decisions. “If you win, it’s easier to fall in love again,” says Mikhailenko, UAF press service.

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