Belgium has long been a team with high expectations.. The Red Devils concentrate a good part of the players who are protagonists in high-ranking clubs. It can even be safely stated that some of them are among the best footballers today.. However, for some reason, they do not realize together the potential they have separately, either due to a lack of cohesion or due to pettiness.
Now, at least, they manage to advance to the next round in the Euro Cup. They do it, yes, with paleness. In fact, they had to take care of the zero to the point of literally ending up asking the time. Taking the ball to the corner so that the stopwatch could run without danger of embarrassment. Waiting for the final whistle almost as if it were a divine sign. Ukraine, which could perfectly ruin their party, tried, but couldn’t, although theirs is less questionable, precisely based on the difference in potential. The score ended tied at zero. The yellows defended their undefeated goal as best they could. Sometimes, extreme the defensive device. Although in the end their appetite also whetted and they set out in search of all or nothing. And they almost took something. Something that, by the way, would have been historic.
The explanation for such mean Belgian behaviour towards the end is that any mistake would have been fatal. In fact, the statistics show that everyone accumulated four points and that the classification of the Belgians and Romanians, who led the group, after tying with Slovakia, was settled by goal difference..
The outcome, in fact, was dramatic, because Heorhiy Sudakov had at his feet the possibility of completely changing history.to. However, she failed her. And there were no more clear chances to break the deadlock in Koen Casteels’ goal.
There were a couple of other chances before that for Serhiy Rebrov’s team to turn the score around and ruin the plans of Italian Domenico Tedesco’s team. None of them, although it may sound redundant, ended in the expected fate.
An end with a Belgian defeat would have been unpleasant for a procedure that, at least in possession and scoring opportunities, had favored them to a certain extent, but, even so, far from what should be required of them. However, the lack of effectiveness, despite the fact that Johan Bakayoko, Lukaku and Yanick Carrasco had opportunities to beat the Ukrainian goal, led them to suffer, to the point of betraying the football principles that had put this generation of footballers in the spotlight. in the world, beyond the fact that they have not been able to confirm their potential in high-flying competitions. In the World Cup in Qatar, in fact, they disappointed. They were eliminated in the group stage. Now, as if it were a reminder, the calendar will put them against France, runners-up in that competition. A real test by fire.
In the duel between Slovakia and Romania, Ondrej Duda opened the scoring in the 24th minute. The equality was marked by Razvan Marin, in the 37th minute, with a penalty kick.
