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The Ukrainian national team has played another friendly in preparation for Euro 2024. In Warsaw, the Blue and Yellows lost to Poland with a score of 1-3. Sport Arena asked former national team midfielder Oleh Shelayev to assess the match, Ukraine's performance and the prospects of Serhiy Rebrov's team.

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Today, on June 8, the Ukrainian Olympic team preparing for the Summer Games will continue its performance at the Tournoi Maurice Revello international tournament in France with a match against Panama.

The game will start at 18:30 Kyiv time.

In the opening match, Ruslan Rotan's wards confidently defeated the Indonesia U-20 team 3-0. In the second match, they also defeated the Italian U-21 team 4-0. Now the "blue and yellows" will meet with a representative of the CONCACAF zone.

Live broadcast of the match Ukraine - Panama:

After the game with the Poles, former Ukraine midfielder Yevhen Levchenko named the main problem of the Blue and Yellows before Euro 2024.

- The only obvious problem is the depth of the squad. There are not enough players for two full squads. Everything else is top! We have players who can replace competitors in their positions. This primarily concerns the wings. But I understand that there are national teams with enough players for two full squads. 13-15 players of the national team of Ukraine form the backbone of the team and can directly influence the outcome of the game.

We have Taras Stepanenko, who is at the end of his career, but we also have Volodymyr Brazhko, who has progressed recently. Such examples give us hope that this team has enough depth in the squad. As for me, we need to rely more on young people, because they are able to create natural competition for virtually every position, and the team will only benefit from this," Levchenko told LB.UA.

Famous coach and football expert Oleh Fedorchuk not only shared his general impressions of the Ukraine vs Poland match (1-3), but also analyzed the performance of each Ukrainian player for theSbirnawebsite, giving his assessment of each player's actions.

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Former Ukraine midfielder Yevhen Levchenko expressed his opinion on Shakhtar midfielder Georgiy Sudakov.

- For whom Euro 2024 should become a springboard to the best European championships?

- I would like Sudakov to confirm his quality of play on the pitch, confirm the relevance of his price tag and move to Europe. When I look at the price for Georgi, my eyes pop up.

- How reasonable is the price for Sudakov?

- When a Ukrainian club sells a player for such money, it is great. The reasonableness of the price is determined by the team willing to buy him. If they are ready, then obviously yes. If Sudakov can find his team, it will have a positive impact on his career.

This player has outgrown the UPL, so I want to see him in a better championship. Look at how many of our guys play abroad. Some of them take a leading role in their teams. This is important for the further development of our national team.

President of Inhultz Oleksandr Povoroznyuk said whether he is in the mood to celebrate the victory in the first league of the season 2023/24.

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In an interview with Het Nieuwsblad, the Brugge forward and Ukraine national team player Roman Yaremchuk told the Belgian newspaper whether thoughts of the war prevent him from playing football.

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The England national team narrowly lost to Iceland (0:1) in a friendly match.

According to Opta Joe, England lost its last match before a major international tournament for the first time since 1968. Then the English lost to Germany (0:1) in the last match before Euro 1968. It should be added that England took third place at that Euro.

In the last four friendly matches before the European Championships, Gareth Southgate's men defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina (3-0), lost to Brazil (0-1) and drew with Belgium (2-2).

The Poles are satisfied with the result of the match with Ukraine (3:1), but are worried about the fact that several players were injured on the eve of the European Championship. Local fans write that even the second team of their national team shows good potential, so they have pleasant expectations for the upcoming Euro 2024. It is interesting that before the match, the Poles were more cautious about the Ukrainian national team and considered it a more or less equal opponent. Now they are sure that the Polish national team is stronger.

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Poland's defender Bartosz Salamon commented on his team's victory over Ukraine in a friendly match.

"We scored the first goal quickly. Then there were moments when we allowed Ukraine to seize the initiative, but they didn't get much out of it. We had everything under control with the score 3-1.

Dovbyk showed great class - we left him space and he scored well. It seemed like we had a moment of fatigue as a team - there was a lot of space between the lines, we didn't act compactly.

Ukraine is a very good team, they have a lot of world-class players. It was our first match in recent times, because many players had vacations after the end of the season and now we have had only a few days of training," Przegląd Sportowy quoted Salamon as saying.

Former Shakhtar goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov spoke frankly about working with Romanian coach Mircea Lucescu.

"I didn't have a goalkeeping coach. There was Marian Ionice. But he was so... To be honest, I think I lost seven years of my career under Lucescu.

I played, but with my experience, I took it exclusively from the matches. There was no analysis of matches and my mistakes, no tips and psychological help. It was all done by Lucescu and the whole team. He could simply say: "You are guilty!". Without analyzing the moment. "The Brazilian was 'circumcised', and you are to blame. You want to say something, but he's the head coach, what can you prove?
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I remember a match against Chelsea where I was insuring the defenders and Oscar scored a goal for my collar. Lucescu got me so worked up that I came out and said that I was to blame for the defeat. It's very easy to put everything on the goalkeeper. He could have done it easily. And then tell everyone at the press conference. For example, I can't say that to my goalkeepers, I support them on the contrary. Because this is football. If there were no mistakes, then everyone would play 0-0 and people would not go to the matches," Pyatov was quoted as saying by the Sport Arena telegram channel.

Former Ukrainian national team defender Vasyl Kobin commented on the defeat of our national team in a friendly match against Poland.

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