The national team of Ukraine played a draw on the road against Italy in control sparring with the score 1: 1.

Having withstood the onslaught from the side of “Squadra Azzurra” at the opening minutes of the meeting, Andrei Shevchenko’s players leveled the game somewhat towards the end of the first half. Note that the goalkeeper of the guests, Andriy Pyatov, showed the magnificent game in the framed goal in the first half of the game..

Ukraine in the first half had several scoring opportunities, but all their attacks could not be called super-dangerous.. What can not be said about the Italians, who in the first 45 minutes could have scored “blue-yellows” at least three times in the gates. If it were not for the aforementioned amazing reaction of Pyatov, Ukraine would have huge problems.. However, the first half ended without goals - 0: 0.

At the beginning of the second half of the confrontation, it was Pyatov who “brought” a goal into his own goal - Federico Bernardeschi, in the 55th minute, dealt a minor blow from the middle distance, but the goalkeeper of the Ukrainian team failed to cope with this shot..

A draw for Ukraine was saved by Ruslan Malinovsky, who after eight minutes shot from the penalty line into the corner of the penalty. Fantastic goal from midfielder Belgian "Genka". Pass in the account of Nikita Burda. Malinovsky could even bring victory, but the ball after his powerful free-kick hit the crossbar.

Thus, having played in a draw with Italy, the team of Andrey Shevchenko can now fully concentrate on playing 3 rounds of the group stage of the League of Nations against the Czech Republic, which will be held on October 16.