Ukraine 1-4 France: Oleg Blokhin admits his team’s lost concentration at the end - Football News
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Ukraine-c3032 boss, Oleg Blokhin, revealed that his side completely lost concentration against France that cost them the game. He was talking in the wake of his team’s defeat to Laurent Blanc’s side when the two teams met each other on Monday, June 6, at Donbass
Arena. The visitors emerged out as 4-1 winners on the night courtesy a brace from debutant http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Marvin-Martin-c24496.
The coach believed that his team made a bright start to the game in spite of being considered the underdogs. He reckoned that he was short on quality and his players did not possess the same sort of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Skills-c40539 which the former world champions exhibited. It was
going all smoothly until the flood gates opened and http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Andriy-Pyatov-c6010.
The home side got the lead through midfielder, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Anatoliy-Tymoshchuk-c5539, in the 53rd
minute. But it was just a matter of time for France to open their scoring and it was http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Kevin-Gameiro-c20721 in the 57th minute who brought the visitors back on level terms. It was all going in favour of the Ukrainian outfit as even a draw would have
been a decent result for Blokhin’s side.
It was the second half substitute, Martin, who made it 2-1 just three minutes from time and suddenly there was a flurry of goals; http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Younes-Kaboul-c37543 made it 3-1 on the 89th mark and Martin netted another one in the injury time to complete a sound victory
over the patchy hosts.
The former AEK Athens manager admitted that his team just relaxed a little bit in the dying moments of the second half and France took complete advantage of it. He also applauded his opponent’s efforts, who were simply devastating on the night and congratulated
the debutant, Martin, who scored twice in the space of three minutes to make a perfect start to his international career.
He concluded by saying, "We do not have enough resources, our substitutes could not strengthen the team, and the French substitutes added significantly.”
Ukraine will play their next game against http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Sweden-c3015 in August and the boss would certainly be hoping for better results in matches to come.
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