Dynamo goalkeeper and Ukraine's youth national team goalkeeper Ruslan Neshcheret commented on the episode with Rodrigo Riquelme's disallowed goal in the 3rd round of the Euro 2023 group stage match against Spain.
Ruslan Neshcheret"The Spaniard hit me on the arm, and I couldn't even throw the ball away due to inertia. So it was a foul. After that, he came up to me and said that he really hit me. It was a bit tricky.
We need to approach such games calmly. Ruslan Petrovich told us that we should enjoy this moment: we are out of the group. We need to enjoy it, play and please the fans.
Yes, we wanted to win. But we played the game with dignity. Of course, you get upset when you concede in the last minutes. It is very unpleasant for us, and even more so for me as a goalkeeper. A draw is also a good result, so I think the guys played very well. There are mistakes, sometimes we missed someone, like in the first or second moment. But I think we played a very decent game, and I'm very pleased with what the guys did.
Honestly, I don't know, we need to see what went wrong [in the episode with the second missed goal]. Maybe it was concentration. Perhaps our defenders were too exhausted. This happens in football. The Spaniards did their best in this episode and scored a goal. As with all games, we tune in to the maximum. The training process will not change, and we are unlikely to play differently. We need to stay on our game and make the most of it.
I think that the road is definitely not a determining factor. We must have a great desire to play for those guys who are now fighting for us and our freedom. That's why the road is not a problem at all," Nescheret said.
