EURO 2020 Group C analysis

The analysis of EURO 2020 Group C, with Ukraine, Netherlands, Austria, and North Macedonia all looking to take their place to the next round.

Ukraine

Ukraine will be looking to book their place in the next round with a young and exciting talent like Oleksandr Zinchenko.
This is the first major tournament for their manager AC Milan legend Andriy Shevchenko and he will want to impress.

Squad

Goalkeepers: Anatolii Trubin (Shakhtar Donetsk), Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk)

Defenders: Denys Popov (Dynamo Kyiv), Mykola Matviyenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo Kyiv), Eduard Sobol (Club Brugge), Illia Zabarnyi (Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Kryvtsov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Karavaev (Dynamo Kyiv)

Midfielders: Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Atalanta), Serhiy Sydorchuk (Dynamo Kyiv), Mykola Shaparenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Marlos (Shakhtar Donetsk), Yevhen Makarenko (Kortrijk), Viktor Tsygankov (Dynamo Kyiv), Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Oleksandr Zubkov (Ferencváros), Heorhii Sudakov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Roman Bezus (Gent)

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk (Gent), Artem Besedin (Dynamo Kyiv), Artem Dovbyk (Dnipro-1).

Netherlands

Netherlands the 1988 winner come into the competition with their star player, Liverpool defender Virgil Van Dijk. This is their first major tournament after missing out on the last FIFA world cup and EUROs. They found their self in a favorable group and baring any upset they should qualify to the next round easily.

Squad

Goalkeepers: Tim Krul (Norwich City), Maarten Stekelenburg (Ajax Amsterdam), Jasper Cillessen (Valencia)

Defenders: Matthijs de Ligt (Juventus), Stefan de Vrij (Inter Milan), Nathan Ake (Manchester City), Daley Blind (Ajax Amsterdam), Denzel Dumfries (PSV Eindhoven), Joel Veltman (Brighton & Hove Albion), Jurriem Timber (Ajax Amsterdam), Patrick van Aanholt (Crystal Palace), Owen Wijndal (AZ Alkmaar)

Midfielders: Donny van de Beek (Manchester United), Georginio Wijnaldum (Liverpool) Frenkie de Jong (Barcelona), Marten de Roon (Atalanta), Ryan Gravenberch, Davy Klaassen (both Ajax Amsterdam), Teun Koopmeiners (AZ Alkmaar).

Forwards: Memphis Depay (Olympique Lyonnais), Wout Weghorst (Wolfsburg), Cody Gakpo, Donyell Malen (both PSV Eindhoven), Quincy Promes (Spartak Moscow), Steven Berghuis (Feyenoord), Luuk de Jong (Sevilla).

Austria

Austria will be looking to qualify to the next round as they have never gone past the group stage. Star player David Alaba with hope to push the team through.

Squad

Goalkeepers: Daniel Bachmann (Watford), Pavao Pervan (Wolfsburg),

Defenders: David Alaba (Bayern), Aleksandar Dragović (Leverkusen), Marco Friedl (Werder Bremen), Stefan Posch (Hoffenheim), Christopher Trimmel (Union Berlin), Andreas Ulmer (Salzburg), Martin Hinteregger (Frankfurt), Stefan Lainer (Mönchengladbach), Philipp Lienhart (Freiburg).

Midfielders: Konrad Laimer (Leipzig), Valentino Lazaro (Internazionale), Marcel Sabitzer (Leipzig), Louis Schaub (Luzern), Julian Baumgartlinger (Leverkusen), Christoph Baumgartner (Hoffenheim), Florian Grillitsch (Hoffenheim), Stefan Ilsanker (Frankfurt), Xaver Schlager (Wolfsburg), Alessandro Schöpf (Schalke).

Forwards: Sasa Kalajdzic (Stuttgart), Karim Onisiwo (Mainz), Marko Arnautović (Shanghai Port), Michael Gregoritsch (Augsburg).

Northern Macedonia

They qualified for the tournament through the back door after placing third in group G of the qualify stage behind Poland and Austria, qualifying through the nations league playoffs against Georgia. They may be seen as the group underdog but are ready to punish any complacency, like they did to Germany consigning them to their first world cup qualifying group stage defeat in 20 years.

Squad

Goalkeepers: Riste Jankov (Rabotnicki), Damjan Siskovski (Doxa Katokopia), Stole Dimitrievski (Rayo Vallecano).

Defenders: Kire Ristevski (Újpest), Gjoko Zajkov (Charleroi), Darko Velkovski (Rijeka), Stefan Ristovski (Dinamo Zagreb), Visar Musliu (Fehérvár), Egzon Bejtulai (Shkëndija), Ezdzan Alioski (Leeds).

Midfielders: Arijan Ademi (Dinamo Zagreb), Enis Bardhi (Levante), Stefan Spirovski (AEK Larnaca), Boban Nikolov (Lecce), Tihomir Kostadinov (Ružomberok), Daniel Avramovski (Kayserispor), Darko Curlinov (Stuttgart), Marjan Radeski (Akademija Pandev), Ferhan Hasani (Partizani), Eljif Elmas (Napoli).

Forwards: Milan Ristovski (Spartak Trnava), Goran Pandev (Genoa), Aleksandar Trajkovski (Mallorca), Ivan Trickovski (AEK Larnaca), Vlatko Stojanovski (Chambly), Krste Velkovski (Sarajevo).

Fixtures

13 June : Austria vs North Macedonia – 5pm (Bucharest)Netherlands vs Ukraine – 8pm (Amsterdam).

17 June: Ukraine vs North Macedonia – 2pm (Bucharest)Netherlands vs Austria – 8pm (Amsterdam).

21 June: North Macedonia vs Netherlands – 5pm (Amsterdam)Ukraine vs Austria – 5pm (Bucharest)