Former Ukraine midfielder Yevhen Levchenko told what he expects from the match of the final, 3rd round of the group stage of Euro 2024 in Group "E" Ukraine - Belgium, which will be held today in Stuttgart.
Evgeny Levchenko"I expect only victory, how can you do otherwise. Of course, this Belgian national team is very strong, if you do not take the match with the Slovaks. They have a lot of high-quality players who can easily decide the course of the match.
I realize that this national team will not be very easy for us. On the other hand, maybe we will have a lot of chances to make our favorite counterattacks with our fast strikers. Maybe playing in a different state will help us. And I think if we play from defense and run out on counterattacks, we can win.
So I remain optimistic, but I would like us to start playing from the first minutes and not like we did with the Slovaks and Romanians. If we can win, it will only be by one goal. But I would like this Ukraine national team to show, first of all, the result, and secondly, the soccer that I would like to see from the national team.
I understand that any team has mistakes, but such mistakes as we made and the way we played two halves against Romania, as well as the first 30 minutes against Slovakia, this is not our style of play, I think.
Belgium will press us. It's very difficult for us to get out of the pressing. But if we have players like Mudryk, if there will be Tsygankov, if Sudakov will play more forward, it seems to me that we can use it in our favor," Tribuna quotes Levchenko as saying.
