Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko analyzed his goal error in the Euro 2024 match against Slovakia (2-1).
Oleksandr Zinchenko (photo: gettyimages.com)– “It was my mistake because I stood incorrectly in front of my opponent. I had to turn my body and see both the ball and my opponent. Even if I had not put the ball there, I could have felt my opponent with My elbow and somehow way prevented him from hitting. And everything happened very quickly from the beginning, I had already made the wrong position and then I simply did not calculate the distance of my jump, I simply did not reach the ball.
The first mistake was the wrong position of my body. Because I didn’t see my opponent at all, where he was. Whether he was one or two steps behind me, or very close to me, or very far away. I have to see both my opponent and the ball. Secondly, although I was in the wrong position, I had time to find the right moment to jump and play the ball, but unfortunately I did neither the first nor the second. And we fumbled,” Zinchenko said in a comment on the UAF YouTube channel.
