Former Dynamo Kyiv striker Oleh Salenko shared his thoughts on the match between North Macedonia and Ukraine in the Euro 2024 qualifiers.
Oleg Salenko"With Northern Macedonia, we will have to play completely different football from the one we played in the match with Germany. You know, a friendly game is a friendly game, and in Skopje we will have to not just attack and score, but win. It is imperative to win.
North Macedonia will play defensively. We will need to break through these defensive redoubts somehow. It's good that we have skilful wingers - Mudryk and Tsygankov, first of all. And Yarmolenko looks good in the centre. Now he really needs to prove himself as much as possible so that representatives of European clubs pay attention to him. Andriy is temporarily unemployed. "Al Ain is done, they have finished their cooperation.
North Macedonia is not a team like England, Italy, France or Germany, so in this game you need to get maximum points, you need to win, that's the only way. Rebrov needs to psychologically prepare the guys for the game. Do not underestimate the Macedonians. Do you remember who kept Italy out of the World Cup? That's right.
So in a match against this team, we do not need to forget about counterattacks from rivals that can cause us a lot of trouble. We must not forget about defence. If I try to predict the score of the game, I would bet on Ukraine. Our team should win 2-0," Salenko said.
