When Ukraine and Switzerland both done history

It stays a high indicate in a story of a group that has unsuccessful to validate for any of a 3 successive editions. And nonetheless their success in a shootout came notwithstanding a pell-mell rave in that manager Oleg Blokhin, impressed by a tension, incited his behind on his group and headed for a sauce rooms.

“Usually a coaches ask a players: ‘who is going to take one?’, ‘who is going to assume a responsibility?’, ‘who feels adult to it?’ But we didn’t have a bound list of chastisement takers and we didn’t even rehearse them before a game,” midfielder Anatoliy Tymoshchuk told FIFA.com.

“After additional time we only told my team, ‘You have to settle this among yourself who is going to take a penalties’,” Blokhin admitted. “A chastisement shootout is like Russian roulette. we didn’t even see [the penalties]. After 120 mins we couldn’t cope with it.”

Blokhin therefore missed a heroics of goalkeeper Oleksandr Shovkovskiy, and a successful penalties from Artem Milevskiy, Sergei Rebrov and Oleg Gusev – a male graphic celebrating a winning flog in a picture above. “We fought so tough and we’ve come so distant in this tournament, it is roughly like a dream,” reflected their unapproachable and weeping coach.

And while that dream would finish in a quarter-finals with better to contingent champions Italy, Blokhin’s Class of 2006 left Germany with their places in Ukrainian football folklore resolutely assured.

Article source: http://www.fifa.com/worldcup/news/y=2018/m=4/news=when-ukraine-and-switzerland-both-made-history.html