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Ukraine's Oleksandr Zinchenko during the UEFA Euro 2024 Group D match at the Dusseldorf Arena in Dusseldorf, Germany, June 21, 2024

by Layth Yousif in Tirana 

THE headline in Albania’s national sports newspaper the morning after the night before was telling.

The Panorama Sport daily paper thundered: “Albania is asleep, Ukraine gives us a cold shower,” after the home side were unexpectedly beaten 2-1 in Tirana by Serhiy Rebrov’s Ukraine.

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