Euro 2024 Wrap: Wins for Romania, Slovakia and France

Ivan Schranz of Slovakia celebrates scoring his team's first goal with teammates during the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Belgium and Slovakia at Frankfurt Arena on June 17, 2024 in Frankfurt

Ivan Schranz of Slovakia celebrates scoring his team's first goal with teammates during the UEFA EURO 2024 group stage match between Belgium and Slovakia at Frankfurt Arena on June 17, 2024 in Frankfurt Credit: Photo by Ryan Pierse - UEFA/UEFA via Getty Images

Monday’s matches brought victories for Romania and Slovakia in Group E while France defeated Austria 1-0 in Group D.

The first game of the day saw Romania defeat Ukraine 3-0 in Munich. Superb long range strikes from Nicolae Stanciu and Răzvan Marin, along with a Denis Dragus goal, secured the win. 

"It was the goal of my career,” said Stanciu speaking to UEFA.com after the game. “This shirt means everything to me. To score at a EURO finals and to win in the manner that we did, it's just incredible."

It was just Romania’s second ever win in the Euros from the 17 tournament matches.

Romania: Niță; Rațiu, Drăgușin, Burcă, Bancu; M. Marin (Rus 75); Man (Hagi 62), R. Marin, Stanciu (Racoviţan 87), Coman (Mihăilă 62); Draguş (Puşcaş 75)

Ukraine: Lunin; Konoplia (Tymchyk 72), Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Zinchenko; Stepanenko (Brazhko 62), Shaparenko (Yaremchuk 62); Tsygankov (Yarmolenko 62), Sudakov (Malinovskyi 83), Mudryk; Dovbyk

It was a tighter affair in the middle match with Ivan Schranz’s seventh minute strike for Slovakia being the difference between his team and Belgium.

Romelu Lukaku twice had the ball in the net for Belgium but the first one was ruled out for offside and the second one for a handball.

Belgium: Casteels; Castagne, Faes, Debast, Carrasco (Lukébakio 84); Onana, Mangala (Bakayoko 58); Trossard (Tielemans 75), De Bruyne, Doku (Openda 84); Lukaku

Slovakia: Dúbravka; Pekarík, Vavro, Škriniar, Hancko; Kucka, Lobotka, Duda (Obert 94); Schranz (Duriš 80), Boženík (Strelec 70), Haraslín (Suslov 70)



The final game saw France beat Austria in Düsseldorf. Our full match report is here:

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