The official application of the Ukrainian national team for the match of the starting round of the qualification of the 2022 World Cup against the French team has become known.

Among the 28 footballers who went to Paris as part of the blue-and-yellow delegation, goalkeepers Andrey Lunin and Dmitry Riznyk, defender Alexander Tymchik, and midfielders Andrey Yarmolenko and Vladimir Shepelev were not included in the game..

Earlier it was also reported that forward Artem Dovbik could not fly with the team to France due to the requirements of local legislation during the COVID-19 pandemic..

APPLICATION OF THE TEAM OF UKRAINE FOR THE MATCH AGAINST FRANCE Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov, Anatoly Trubin, Georgy Buschan.

Defenders: Sergey Krivtsov, Nikolay Matvienko, Vitaly Mikolenko, Ilya Zabarny, Alexander Sirota, Alexander Karavaev, Efim Konoplya, Eduard Sobol, Bogdan Mikhailichenko.

Midfielders: Marlos, Evgeniy Konoplyanka, Sergey Sidorchuk, Nikolay Shaparenko, Alexander Zubkov, Ruslan Malinovsky, Viktor Kovalenko, Evgeniy Makarenko, Alexander Zinchenko.

Forwards: Junior Moraes, Roman Yaremchuk.

The duel France - Ukraine will take place on Wednesday, March 24, in Saint-Denis at the " Beginning - at 21:45 Kyiv time. TSN Prosport will conduct an online broadcast of the meeting.