(sabasports report)Slovakia took on Ukraine in the second round of the Group E of the European Championship. Slovakia’s Ivan Schranz scored in his second straight group game, but Ukraine drew level through Mykola Shaparenko’s goal. Mykhailo Mudryk then hit the post and Roman Yaremchuk converted the opening goal. In the end, Ukraine won 2-1 against Slovakia.
At present, after two rounds of matches, both teams have 3 points, Ukraine is temporarily second in the group, Slovakia is third, Belgium is temporarily at the bottom of the group. Slovakia beat Belgium in the first group stage, while Ukraine lost 3-0 to Romania.
In the last six meetings between the two teams, Slovakia has won 2 wins, drew 1 and lost 3, slightly disadvantaged, scoring and conceding ratio of 8 to 7. For this game, Slovakia kept the same starting lineup from the previous game, while Ukraine changed a number of main players. Andriy Trubin replaced Andriy Lunin as goalkeeper, Andriy Yarmolenko, Vitaliy Tymchyk and Danylo Brazhko rotated in and out.