Arseniy Batagov: "The first match with Luxembourg was harder"

Ukraine's youth national team defender Arseniy Batagov commented on the 4-0 victory over the Luxembourg youth team in yesterday's Euro 2025 U-21 qualifying match.

Arseniy Batagov (photo: gettyimages.com)

- First of all, I want to say that we played well as a team, created a lot of chances. Even despite the opponents' red card, we completely outplayed them before it and deserved to win. Perhaps the first match with Luxembourg was harder, because they created several chances and had chances to score. Today they had no chances.

Am I more satisfied with the goal or the assist? I don't know, probably the goal, because it was my debut for the national team. I have the most matches here, but I haven't scored yet. The guys congratulated me, they were more excited than I was. We worked on the standards in training, everyone did what we were told, we played it out. There were a few more moments after the standards before that. I think we did a good job in training," Batagov was quoted as saying bySuspilne.

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