Substitute Roman Yaremchuk stored Ukraine in Euro 2024 competition with a purpose 10 minutes from time to beat a shell-shocked Slovakia 2-1 on Friday and hold alive their hopes of reaching the subsequent spherical.
Yaremchuk latched on to a flighted cross from Mykola Shaparenko and prodded the ball previous keeper Martin Dubravka to disclaim Slovakia, who had opened the scoring, an early place within the knockout section.
Ukraine made 5 modifications from their depressing 3-0 drubbing by Romania, with winger Andriy Yarmolenko and goalkeeper Antoliy Trubin introduced into the facet and enjoying an important position within the victory.
Slovakia began sturdy with Lukas Haraslin, Ivan Schranz and David Hancko forcing good early saves from Trubin early on earlier than Schranz broke the impasse within the seventeenth minute, incomes his second purpose of the event with an outstanding downward header from Haraslin’s candy lobbed cross.
Ukraine battled arduous to get again into the sport, with Oleksandr Tymchyk hitting the publish simply after the half hour mark.
They acquired their reward after 54 minutes when Shaparenko discovered himself in area and fired cooly into the online after a Oleksandr Zinchenko cross and stored up the strain all through the second half till they snatched the winner late on.
Source: www.anews.com.tr