Midfielder of the Ukrainian national team

Oleksandr Zinchenko 

commented on 

the strong-willed victory

 over the Iceland team (2:1) in the final match 

of the playoff selection for Euro-2024

.

After the game, he shared his emotions in the comments of Suspilne Sport and said that he was "proud to be Ukrainian".

"Was this game emotional? One of those. I also remembered the match against Sweden at the European Championship - similar emotions. Lack of emotions now? I left everything in the dressing room. Everything is great, we qualified for the Euros. I would like to thank all our fans very much, felt throughout the match how they supported us and support us. Without them we would not have achieved this result.

I am proud to be a Ukrainian, to be one of those people who are in Ukraine and give their lives for our freedom.

It needs to be talked about and shouted about every day.

And that's the only way we can win.

It's hard to convey these emotions, honestly.

I cannot be grateful to the end and describe my emotions.

Once again, I am proud to be Ukrainian.

As I said, we are in the Euro.

Coach's words at halftime?

First of all, he told us to believe in the result, that we can score.

So that we continue to play, stick to our positions and believe that we can score.

We also started each other, because we understood that we were waiting for a difficult 45 minutes for the sake of the result.

I won't say that the Icelanders beat us in the first half, we just missed the ball.

The individual skill of one of their players (Albert Gudmundsson - note).

Even before the game, I said that we need to pay attention to several football players.

It was this player who scored three times for Israel, he handled it well and scored a magnificent ball.

But we reacted properly and achieved an important result.

Lawn condition?

I think that the lawn was the same for everyone, I will never pay attention to it.

You have to push yourself away from your game and do everything the coach asks of you," Zinchenko said.

After defeating the Icelanders, the Ukrainian national team reached 

the final tournament of Euro-2024

, where it will play in Group E against Belgium, Slovakia and Romania.

The matches of the Euro 2024 final tournament will take place in Germany from June 14 to July 14, 2024.

Earlier it was reported that the midfielder of the Ukrainian national team Viktor Tsygankov 

dedicated

 the victory over Iceland and entry to the European Championship to the soldiers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Also, the head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Serhiy Rebrov , commented on

the victory over the Icelanders and winning a ticket to the continental championship

 .

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