On Wednesday, July 1, the Ukrainian national team will play a match in Glasgow against Scotland in the playoff semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup qualification.
ZN. UA will broadcast the Scotland-Ukraine match online.
The fight was supposed to take place on March 24, but due to the military invasion of Russia, all Ukrainian football was on pause.. As a result, the Ukrainian team went to a training camp in Slovenia, and the game was postponed.
During the preparation, the Ukrainians played a number of friendly matches. Wards of Alexander Petrakov defeated Borussia Monchengladbach (2:1) and Empoli (3:1), after which they parted ways with Rijeka (1:1).
These meetings hardly allowed the players from the Ukrainian Championship to get in the best shape, which could be the main problem for our team. At the same time, a number of players arrived in good shape from the European championships. Full-fledged seasons were held by Alexander Zinchenko, Andrey Yarmolenko, Ruslan Malinovsky and others. It is extremely difficult to predict the starting lineup of the Ukrainian national team in such conditions..
It is worth noting that the last time the Ukrainian team reached the final of the World Cup back in 2006, and then the team of Oleg Blokhin managed to get into the quarterfinals. Since then, the selection for the World Cup for our team ended unsuccessfully.
In the last selection, Ukraine finished second in Group D after France.. The Ukrainian team scored 12 points and never lost, but six draws out of eight did not allow them to claim the victory in the group.
Scotland - Ukraine: bookmaker's forecast.
Scotland have not played in the World Cup since 1998. The British team in the qualifying group F took second place. In the fourth round, the Scots lost to Denmark (0:2), after which they scored six victories in a row, taking revenge on the same Danes (2:0) in the last round.
Many players from Ukraine's opponents represent the Premier League. Of particular note are Liverpool's Robertson and Manchester United's McTominay.. Arsenal defender Kieran Tierney has been left out of the squad due to injury - a major loss for Scotland.
The winner of the pair will face Wales on June 5 in Cardiff. If the Ukrainian team can pass Scotland and Wales, then at the World Cup in Qatar it will play in group B with the teams of England, the USA and Iran.
Scotland - Ukraine.
Wednesday, June 1, Glasgow, Hampden Park Stadium, 21:45.
Referee: Danny Makkeli (Netherlands).
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Approximate compositions:.
Scotland: Gordon, Robertson, O'Donnell, Cooper, Sutor, McGinn, McGregor, McTominay, Christy, Gilmour, Adams.
Ukraine: Bushchan, Karavaev, Zabarny, Matvienko, Mykolenko, Zinchenko, Stepanenko, Yarmolenko, Malinovsky, Mudryk, Yaremchuk.
Forecast ZN. UA: 1:2.