Football: Ukraine affected by nerves in win over North Macedonia, says Shevchenko

BUCHAREST: Ukraine struggled to conquer their nerves against North Macedonia at the European Championship, coach Andriy Shevchenko said after his team'sShevchenko's team dominated the first half against the lowest-ranked side at the finals, going into the interval two goals ahead, but went off the boil in the second half, nearly conceding from North Macedonia's first attack.

"We played a very good first half but they started the second half very well and our mistake caused a penalty that they scored . "We changed it completely because we had to protect our goal and we had to press a little bit in front to prevent long passes," the coach added."We got two fresh players who were pressing quite a lot.

Ukraine have three points after two games and play Austria on Monday. Netherlands face Austria later on Thursday with both sides on three points after opening victories.Yarmolenko, who scored Ukraine's first and assisted their second, said their coaches had warned them at halftime that North Macedonia would come out fighting.

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