Iceland national team midfielder Daniel Leo Gretarsson expressed confidence that Ukraine won thanks to luck in the final playoff qualifying for Euro 2024. The 28-year-old football player noted that he and his partners managed to defend very well, and the final score itself (1:2) was a real shock for them.
Gretarsson stated this in a commentary portal mbl.is, summing up the results of the fight in Wroclaw. The visiting player added that the game with Ukraine was one of the most important in his career, and therefore it was extremely difficult to accept defeat in it, since the “blue-yellows” did not create a large number of scoring chances.
“It’s not what we planned. We wanted to go to the European Championships, but today it didn’t happen. They didn’t create many chances for us, so I think they were just lucky. We had chances. When they had the ball, they “We didn’t create much. We felt good defensively. This is one of the most important games of our career and the result is hard to accept. The guys are still in shock,” Gretarsson said.
Let us note that the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Sergei Rebrov, spoke frankly regarding what happened in the team’s locker room during the break of the match with Iceland. In turn, visiting midfielder Jon Dagur Thorsteinsson called the defeat from Ukraine the most painful in his career, and Mikhail Mudrik’s goal in the 84th minute was deadly for his team.
As OBOZ.UA reported, we have decided all participants in the final part of the European Championship 2024 in Germany and the rivals of the Ukrainian team. It also became known how much Ukraine earned for reaching the championship.
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