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Moldova U-21 football team demolished by Ukraine


https://www.ipn.md/en/moldova-u-21-football-team-demolished-by-ukraine-7979_1020522.html

The national Under 21 team of Moldova failed to qualify for the final of the Kiev tournament “Valerii Lobanovski”. Moldova was trounced by the team of the hosts 0-5, IPN reports.

The goals for the winner were scored by Bliznicenko (12th minute), Bezborodko (33rd), Petreak (48th), Myshnov (51st pen) and Mishenko (59th). “We didn’t expect such a difference in the score. Moldova had trained for this match for a week and earlier had a good performance in Belgium, where it lost by 1-2 to a powerful opponent,” Ukraine manager Sergey Kovalets said in a news conference after the match.

On June 3, the team trained by Igor Ursachi will compete with Greece for the third place. In the semifinals, Greece was beaten by Slovenia 0-3.