NATIONAL TEAMS: RESULTS
In the first match the team of Yury Maleeu lost to the Russians with a score of 0-2. Kavalchuk, Sliasarchyk, Pilipenka, Shuppo and Valiuk were in the starting lineup. Yulia, Viktorya, Hanna and Katsiaryna played the whole match, Nastassia was replaced in the 65th minute by Tatsiana Markusheuskaya (who was replaced by Nastassia Shlapakova in the 84th minute). Sitnikava, Papova and Mikalaenka remained on the bench.
Yesterday, in the second match, the Belarusians tied with a score of 2-2. Nastassia Shlapakova scored the second goal for our team. Sliasarchyk, Shuppo, Valiuk and Pilipenka took part in the match from the first minutes. Hanna and Yulia played without substitutions, Nastassia was replaced in the 61st minute, so as was Viktorya. Nastassia Shlapakova appeared in the 82nd minute, Kavalchuk, Sitnikava, Papova and Mikalaenka remained on the bench, Tatsiana Markusheuskaya was out of the squad.
The U-19 team, meanwhile, played two matches in the B-League of the European Championship. The first match, against the team of North Macedonia, the girls ended in a draw 1-1. Alina Kharashchak and Nastassia Kuntsevich came out in the starting lineup and it was Alina who scored a goal in the Belarusian national team after a penalty free-kick (then she was replaced in the 64th minute).
The girls confidently won the second match against the Georgian national team, with a score of 4:0. One of the goals in the match was scored by our Nastasia Kuntsevich. Both players were again in the starting lineup (Alina was replaced in the 89th minute). This result allowed the team of Uladzimir Shindzikau to qualify for League-A and next spring to continue to fight for getting into the final stage of the continental championship!