Commentary by the coach of the Ukrainian U-17 national team on the recent match with the Czech Republic.
Head coach of the Ukraine U-17 team Yuriy Moroz commented on the defeat in the match with the Czech Republic in the group stage of Euro 2024.
“We planned to go nowhere, we only needed victory. “I don’t understand what was going on,” the UAF official website quotes the coach..
" The boys did not show all their strength on the field, those who. We lost a lot of fights, a lot of individual compromises, lost the ball in simple situations.
In the episode with the first goal, they didn’t carry the ball, they had mercy, they brought this penalty themselves. Then the boys got together, as the moments passed, things began to turn out. But in the final part it is necessary to get to the skin level so that there are moral and strong-willed fighting jabs. On one side, the final tournament is coming out - it’s already a success, well done!. However, at the championship itself it is necessary to play differently.
The appearance of our juniors in various clubs? Perhaps this is also one of the reasons for failure. You can joke about different reasons, but in my opinion, there was no anger on the football field, no thirst for victory. It is necessary to fight on the skin of the field, and in the episode with the third goal one footballer beat many opponents.
Everyone is in the same mind, but a few here were not properly trained. Possibly, they gave a lot of advances, talked about the future. I’ll say this, the boys are great, they made it to the final stage.
And now everyone is trying to learn how to play football.
Without having tasted such a grain, I thought it would be a little prettier. Ale may be those that are possible at the moment. As soon as we prepare for the match in Cyprus, we are amazed at the quality of the football players, and we are wondering how to work so that we have a strong team for this match."
In the match with the Czech Republic, Ukraine lost 1:3 and was practically eliminated from the Euro.