Slovakia 1-2 Ukraine: Serhiy Rebrov’s facet come from behind with objectives from Mykola Shaparenko and Roman Yaremchuk to throw Group E at Euro 2024 extensive open

Ultimately, it took a second of sophistication from Roman Yaremchuk to blow Group E extensive open and provides Ukraine a vital three factors towards Slovakia, taking an beautiful first contact over his proper shoulder and killing the ball useless, earlier than splendidly ending previous Martin Dubravka.

It could haven’t been an outside-of-the-box strike that we’ve obtained so used to seeing on this match however it was proper up there as one of many objectives of the match.

And time will inform simply how vital it is going to be for Serhii Rebrov’s facet.

Ukraine might have a higher-ranking than Slovakia however there was no query concerning the favourites right here. 

Slovakia have been buoyed by their shock win over Belgium and mixed with Ukraine’s 3-0 defeat to Romania earlier within the week, it was little shock that Francesco Calzona’s facet began within the ascendancy and took the lead by way of Ivan Schranz right here on the banks of the River Rhine. However Ukraine fought splendidly, coming from behind by way of objectives from Mykola Shaparenko and Yaremchuk to tug off a priceless victory.

Ukraine misplaced their opening recreation 3-0 and went behind once more because of Slovakia’s Ivan Schranz

Ukraine fought again within the second-half with Mykola Shaparenko netting an important equaliser

Roman Yaremchuk then netted the winner with ten minutes of standard time left to play

Anatoliy Trubin is compelled into save as Slovakia piled on the stress in Dusseldorf

Unsurprisingly, Calzona stored an unchanged facet from Slovakia’s win over Belgium in Frankfurt. 

After their defeat to Romania in Munich, Ukraine boss Serhiy Rebrov revealed that his gamers requested the workers to depart the altering room so they might focus on the loss between themselves. 

Because it was, Rebrov made 4 modifications with essentially the most notable of all, the exclusion of Actual Madrid keeper Andriy Lunin. 

In got here Anatoliy Trublin and throughout the opening exchanges, the Benfica keeper confirmed his value with two large saves to deny Ivan Schranz and David Hancko.

However Trublin may do nothing to maintain out Schranz within the seventeenth minute, who guided a beautiful header previous the outstretched keeper to offer Slovakia a deserved lead. 

It was a easy sufficient transfer from a Slovakian throw-in with Lukas Haraslin’s cross selecting out Schranz on the far publish, who after going virtually three years with out a global aim now has each Slovakian objectives at Euro 2024.

The aim compelled Ukraine to come back out and play and so they had their justifiable share of alternatives earlier than the break. 

First, Peter Pekarik put in a superb problem to maintain out Artem Dovbyk’s goalbound strike earlier than Oleksandry Tymchyk’s right-footed effort clipped the publish after an excellent fingertip save by Martin Dubravka. 

Shaparenko celebrates together with his team-mates after his equaliser raised hopes of a comeback win

Ukraine followers got one thing to smile about amid the warfare of their nation with Russia

Ukraine moved into second place within the desk earlier than Belgium’s conflict with Romania

In amongst it, Mykhailo Mudryk offered a spark however blew a giant likelihood to equalise when he was denied by Dubravka but it was Mudryk who was influential within the construct up for Ukraine’s leveller after the break.

Slovakia misplaced the ball and the Chelsea winger drove up the pitch earlier than Oleksandr Zinchenko discovered Mykola Shaparenko free contained in the field and he picked his spot splendidly previous Dubravka, with a end that the onlooking Andriy Shevchenko would have been pleased with.

The cameras panned to Shevchenko – now the President of the Ukrainian FA – within the crowd, out of his seat and celebrating.

Now the momentum was all with Ukraine, who knew they wanted the three factors. Calzona turned to his bench on the hour mark in a bid to revive some management however nonetheless Rebrov’s facet appeared the likelier to attain a profitable aim, with substitute Yaremchuk taking part in an terrible ball to Mudryk, when all he needed to do was play him in earlier.

But minutes later Yaremchuk made up for it with a pleasant aim to ship the Ukrainian followers into bedlam. From Shaparenko’s lofted supply, he took a lethal first contact earlier than rolling the ball previous Dubravka to attain his fifteenth aim for his nation – by the way the identical tally as his supervisor, Rebrov.

However this was all concerning the three factors and Ukraine will head to Stuttgart to play Belgium subsequent Wednesday, realizing that they’ve each likelihood of qualifying.