Ukraine youth national team midfielder Georgy Sudakov has commented on their 3-1 victory over France in the Euro 2023 quarter-final.
"Mykhailo correctly said, I used to give him such passes. We had a link-up like that, now he gave it away. I knew that he gave a similar pass to Tsygankov in the match against Northern Macedonia, I knew that he could give that pass, so I just had to run into that zone, accelerate and score.
We know how strong France are individually. It is difficult to play against them, even more so defensively. There were problems between the lines, but then we moved to five defenders, Brazhko was fifth in the centre and it became a little easier.
Today, we are still thinking about the game with France, rejoice a bit, and tomorrow we will start to think about Spain. We had a different squad playing against us then, now it will also be different, so, first of all, we have to analyze their games against Switzerland and Croatia and learn from that. I am sure we are capable of much more than a semi-final," Sudakov said on Suspilnoe.