Ivanov gracious in Russian victory

Gennadiy Lysenchuk, Ukraine coach
To tell the truth I'm extremely sad with this result. Looking at the first half we should have scored two goals. The fact we conceded an own goal after hitting the post affected us greatly. Our young players didn't manage to take advantage of the several chances they created and were unable to score. I want to congratulate Russia but I think we deserved to win today. However, the team who scores more goals wins and Russia managed just that so now I hope they become European champions.

Oleg Ivanov, Russia coach
We knew that Ukraine would do everything in their power to win this match. They played very defensively and tried to peg us back in the counterattack and that's why we only managed to score our first goal right at the end of the first half. They are very worthy opponents and they are renovating their team and I wish them the best of luck. I'm glad we are pretty much through to the semi-finals. Our team has 14 players and today I decided not to field the players who were not so inspired in the first game. The Ukraine studied Cirilo's game very well as there were always two or three players marking him. He knew he could take advantage of that by passing the ball to his team-mates but sometimes he is a bit selfish. Nevertheless, he still managed to score. Now we are ready to face Spain.