Andriy Lunin’s season can hardly be improved at the end of March. Settled in ownership of Real Madrid and epic qualification for the Euro Cup in the play-offs. A year and a half after his last game between the sticks with the Ukrainian national team (a 0-0 against Scotland, on September 29, 2022), the blonde goalkeeper regained that privilege by order of Sergei Rebrov and his country could not have done better : comeback against Bosnia in the semifinals (1-2 with a goal from Dovbyk in the 88th minute) and the same against Iceland in the final. The dog’s ticket for being in the big event in Germany has the name of Lunin’s Ukraine thanks to the good work of the Real Madrid player and Mudryk’s saving goal (2-1) in the 84th minute.
For Ukraine, still under the ravages of the Russian invasion, it will be their third consecutive European Championship and for Lunin, the first. A tournament that will highlight his name when he has to make a decision about his future. He has a contract until 2025, but will only continue that last year (or more) if it is by his own decision. The club wants him to be there, because the state of form with which Courtois will return (he underwent surgery on both knees) is unknown. But he won’t be forced either because if he leaves next summer, he would be transferred for a significant amount. This performance with Ukraine, plus the Euro Cup, plus the two titles that he aspires to as a starter between now and the summer (League and Champions League) at only 25 years old can shoot his price skyward.
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Madrid is prepared for both situations and has been discreetly controlling several goalkeepers under a profile similar to the one Lunin had when he signed in 2018: cheap, young and with the potential to polish in Valdebebas little by little.
Lunin, against Sow, in the last League match between Madrid and Sevilla.JESUS ALVAREZ ORIHUELADiarioAS
Lunin will be in the Eurocup by the long route of the play-offs but his group, E, seems theoretically acceptable. Ukraine will have to face Romania, Slovakia and Matz Sels’ Belgium… Courtois’ resignation from the Belgian team will avoid a morbid cross between the two Madrid goalkeepers. For Lunin they will be the spotlights that he had been longing for for so long when he was a substitute, for Madrid, another international with whom he knows he will not be able to start the preseason.
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2024-03-29 14:19:43
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