It was a fight between one who wanted to and couldn’t and another who neither wanted nor had enough weapons to do harm. And in the end, an evident cowardice on the part and
Thus, the 0-0 draw between Belgium and Ukraine was quite fair but favorable only to the cause of the former, who played with fire for the 90 minutes and got their way thanks to the draw in the duel between Romania and Slovakia. This time the combative Ukrainians lacked the courage to do more damage.
The Tin Tin colors boosted the Belgian enthusiasm at the start, with a first option wasted by Lukaku at 6 minutes, a fantastic deep pass from De Bruyne that he failed to define. The City man himself would have to be encouraged to resolve on his own with a powerful shot that went just wide but that anticipated a duel with many chances for Belgium.
The first attempt, timid by the way, was made by Shaparenko at 20 minutes, a good partnership with Yremchuk that was easy for the goalkeeper. And it was a mistake because, as the minutes passed, his rival became imprecise and left very attackable spaces behind him.
But there was not enough ambition from either team and so they signed to go to half-time and play the first half hour of the complement barely showing their teeth, once in Doku’s center that Lukaku did not reach and another time in the failed action. from Carrasco.
Towards the end the Belgians would be encouraged by a great chance created by Doku and resolved by Carrasco, in a brilliant performance by the goalkeeper in the rejection.
And then Ukraine noticed that they were left out of the Euro and went all out for the goal, the one that Fries saved about 80 minutes on the line, the one that Dovbyk missed in a very crossed shot or the one that almost was an Olympic goal of Malinovskiy in the 82nd but was saved by goalkeeper Casteels against the post or by Sudakov in the 90th, a shot that lacked a tris of location. Late cheered up, unfortunately, and was even saved at the end in a run by De Bruyne and Carrasco that lacked precision.
In that almost suicidal way, since a goal left them out, Belgium advanced to the round of 16 with 4 points, where they will meet France. Let’s see if we can see something more about a team that promised a lot and suffered in Group E.
