On Monday, June 17, the Ukrainian national team suffered a crushing defeat against Romania (0:3) in the first round of Euro 2024. NV journalist Andriy Pavlechko had an exclusive conversation with Sergei Tretiak, who predicted Ukraine's victory. A close friend of Artem Milevskiy admitted that he lost 10 thousand dollars on this match.
Artem Milevsky and Sergei Tretiak
- Sergei, the Romanians simply crushed our national team. Did you lose a lot because of our defeat?
- I lost 10,000 dollars. But it's not my biggest bet in life, and it's not my smallest either. I play on the distance, I'll earn mine at the European Championship.
- What do you feel inside? Regret, shame, depression?
- More regret than shame and despondency, because everyone was hoping for a positive result and three points in the first match against Romania. But it's easy for us to talk from our sofas now and criticize the national team for a toothless game in the first round. I think that everything will be fine and I leave my bet on getting out of the group.
- What happened to Lunin in this match? He has proven this season that he is a high level goalkeeper, but here such childish mistakes?
- The answer is very simple - Andriy Lunin is not in Real Madrid, but in the national team of Ukraine. Let's be honest, the level of players is absolutely different. As for the children's mistakes, yes, indeed, mistakes that are not allowed to the top goalkeeper of the world and the main one in our national team to make such ridiculous missed goals.
- The first shot on goal from the Ukrainian national team happened in the 76th minute.What was our offense doing in this match?
- Our forwards were sitting on the bench. They are Andriy Yarmolenko and Roman Yaremchuk.
- Before the match there were statements from our players about the Euro semifinals. Doesn`t life teach you anything?
- As practice shows, it is better to keep silent in such moments, and on the soccer field to prove your intention to be a semifinalist of the European Championship.
- What positives do you see in this match?
- Among the positives I can mention the Kyiv power grid, which turned off the lights at the beginning of the match. But we did not give up, we turned on the generator in the hope to see a positive result from the game Ukraine - Romania. On the positive side, MEGOGO was down and Ukrainians could not watch the match. But they turned it off very late. It was necessary to turn off both the lights and MEGOGO until the 28th minute of the match.
Andriy PAVLECHKO
