Goal-shy Ukraine cannot shoot or tackle, says Blokhin
KYIV (REUTERS) – Ukraine coach Oleg Blokhin has a couple of problems at Euro 2012 – he is worried his forwards do not score enough goals and his defenders cannot tackle.
Brought in to lead the side just over a year ago, he regrets he did not have more time to prepare the co-hosts for the finals in which they face Sweden in Group D on Monday, before taking on England and France.
‘I was short of a few months,’ the 59-year-old coach said in an interview posted on Ukraine’s official Euro 2012 website on Saturday.
He said strikers of other nationalities had banged in plenty of goals across Europe this season but the top goalscorer in Ukraine’s championship, Evhen Seleznyov, had managed only 14.