Ukraine is the European champion among 19-year-olds! Coaches of other national teams said that Ukraine is a strong team and the favorite of this championship. These words were confirmed in the final, where the Ukrainians left the England national team no chance.

As in the match against the Serbs, the Ukrainians managed to score a quick goal in the final as well. True, in the match against England they had to wait a "whole" five minutes. Denys Harmash earned a corner and took it himself, when after the delivery he played ahead of everyone at the near post and sent the ball into the net.

After that, recalling the first match between these teams in the group, the main thing was that the Ukrainian goalkeeper Ihor Levchenko did not make mistakes. And such a mistake was not long in coming. Already in the 12th minute Levchenko played poorly coming off his line, and it was good that this moment did not end with a goal in our net. Levchenko did not make any more serious mistakes.

The English, of course, went forward, because they needed to equalize. Yes, within ten minutes they took four corners, but all the aerial duels were won by the players in the "yellow-and-blue" shirts. Interestingly, it was the Ukrainians who had more of the ball during those minutes. And in the 17th minute England scored, but from an offside position, which Delfouneso got into.

The Ukrainians played the second half of the first half on quick counterattacks. Once they even nearly scored, when a three-on-three break ended with a slightly inaccurate final pass. A shot from the right did come, but a powerful strike from outside the penalty area was saved by Steele. For England, before the end of the half, one can recall a free kick in the 33rd minute, when from an acute angle the ball could have flown into the uncovered near corner. But Ihor Levchenko played superbly in that episode.

The second half also began with a goal. In the same fifth minute. The Ukrainians earned the right to a dangerous free kick near England's goal. Korkishko stepped up to the ball and with a fantastic strike, as if with his hand, put it into the top left corner from the goalkeeper. It was, probably, the best and most beautiful goal of this tournament.

After conceding the second goal, the English became more active and within a few minutes had two chances. Immediately after the goal there was danger in the Ukrainians' penalty area, but the defense coped and cleared the ball. But in the 57th minute Gosling shot twice from about eleven meters. The first of these strikes hit our defender's back, and the second went right next to the post.

The British head coach tried to strengthen his team's play through substitutions. But neither Taft, nor Hoyt, nor Ranger were able to help score a goal or produce effective actions. And Kalytvyntsev's charges controlled the game superbly and gave the opponents no more chances.

In the 70th minute, whether from helplessness or from doom, the English started a scuffle. There was a bit of pushing and the referee calmed everyone down. The referee generally whistled in favor of the British team. That was the case at the end of the first half. So it happened again toward the end of the second 45 minutes. First Harmash fell near his own penalty area, and Yekh awarded a free kick in our direction, which Levchenko dealt with. And then the Czech referee stopped a dangerous Ukrainian attack, though on the principle of fair play, because an Englishman was on the pitch.

Yet neither the referee nor anyone else prevented Ukraine from bringing the match to victory. And for the first time in its history it became the European champion among boys under 19. Ukraine also became the first country from the post-Soviet space to achieve such a goal.

Ukraine - England 2:0 (1:0)

Goals: 1:0 - Harmash (5), 2:0 - Korkishko (50)

Ukraine: Levchenko, Kushnirov, Partsvaniia, Kryvtsov, Korkishko, Petrov (Yeremenko, 90+6), Harmash, Shakhov, Rybalka, Kaverin (Shevchuk, 80), Chaikovskyi

England: Steele, Trippier, Mettock, Gosling, Walker, Welbeck (Ranger, 64), Drinkwater (Taft, 55), Delfouneso, Lansbury, Bennett, Briggs (Hoyt, 56)

Bookings: Mettock (45), Drinkwater (53), Petrov (62), Harmash (66)