Football. Ua presents the announcement of the qualifying match of the 2018 World Cup between the national teams of Ukraine and Finland.
If the national team of Ukraine seriously intends to compete for a ticket to the final tournament of the World Cup in 2018, then by all means it should be beaten in Tampere, the national team of Finland.
Finland - Ukraine Sunday, 19:00, Tampere, Ratina, referee - Alon Yefet (Israel). Live broadcast on Ukraine and Football 1.
The national team of Ukraine has once again found itself in the usual situation: in order to keep the chances that the next qualifying campaign was not unsuccessful, the team of Andrei Shevchenko in Finland needs only a victory. The rival, judging by his latest results (only one victory in eighteen matches of different rank) and the place in the FIFA rankings (108) is completely passable, but it is enough to recall the match of the first round in Odessa, and the moody moods automatically become irrelevant.
The results in the last control matches a little perplexed fans of both teams, but do not forget that the same Ukrainian team held a lost match against Malta against a background of two-time training. It is quite possible to assume that the Finns did not set a goal to beat Liechtenstein, but purposely prepared for Ukraine.
Compared with the November fights in Odessa in both teams there were changes. So, in the Ukrainian team will not be Artem Kravets and Alexander Zinchenko, but they can be adequately replaced by Eugene Seleznev, who completely got rid of the pain in the muscles of the hamstrings and was already engaged in the general group, and Ruslan Malinovsky. In addition, Andrei Shevchenko only on certain positions will not have a choice. The only loss for our team can be Ivan Petryak, who suddenly had a toothache and had to go to the dentist. However, unambiguously cross out the left midfielder from the team is not worth it.
In the same Finns because of the disqualifications will not play Paulus Arajury and Alexander Ring. Also we will not see in Tampere defender Joon Toivio, whom the coach did not call for collection.
As in the national team of Ukraine, Finland has almost no options with the number one post - Lucas Hradecky for his team is the same as Andrew Pyatov for our: like some people are sitting in gloves on the bench, and the gate still protects Goalkeeper Eintracht. Hradecki is certainly good, but lyapi admits regularly. For examples, it is not necessary to go far - the defeat from Iceland (2: 3) was a consequence of two misses Lucas.
A good selection of performers from the Finns on the defensive. All the soldiers tested, although not the first youth, but they know their business well. By the way, the youngest among the defenders is the team-mate of our Malinovsky for Genk Jere Uronen, who at least about the strengths of Ruslan can provide information to the coach.
In the middle line, they still could not find a decent measure of the disqualified for two years for drug use Roman Eremenko. And if the coach of Finn Markku Kanerva has already got used to the absence of the former midfielder of Kiev Dynamo, then the impossibility to use Perparim Hetemaya, Rasmus Schuiller and Tim Sparva hardly pleased the mentor. Hetemay will still be in the team, but, alas, he does not play for Chievo Perparim, but Mehmet, and these are two big differences. It is said that soon a world-class player will be 19-year-old Fredrik Jensen, but it is unlikely that football player Twente will be able to do it already to a fight against Ukraine.
All is more or less clear with the attack line. Since Kanerva is going to use the tactical scheme 4-4-2, the places on the edge of the attack will surely be occupied by Teemu Pukki and Yoel Pohjanpalo. The first of them seems to have gained a second wind after moving to Brondby, and the second one has proved very good in Bayer. The simple talent striker Eero Markkanen, who in Odessa could bring Finland a draw, but did not get into an almost empty goal from five meters, we'll see unless in the last quarter of an hour of the match, or in case of injury to someone from the main attackers.
Which of the following is the conclusion? The team is not without weaknesses and stars from the sky is not enough. Not impressive and the register of the last matches of the Finnish national team. Of the last eighteen fights, Filinam in the asset can be brought only draws in friendly matches against Belgium and Austria, as well as the victory over Morocco also in the control match. True, it should be noted that the top three of the qualifying group I Finland lost only with a minimal score: Croatia and Ukraine 0: 1, and Iceland - 2: 3. And only Turkey was able to beat the team from the country of Suomi with a more convincing account - 2: 0.
To achieve the desired result, the team of Andrei Shevchenko must be absolutely concentrated and take care of the created scoring chances very carefully, which is unlikely to be much.
Approximate compositions Finland: Hradecky - Ritala, Arkivuo, Moisander, Uronen-Lod, Khalti, Hetemay, Risks - Pohjanpalo, Pukki.
Ukraine: Pyatov - Butko, Kucher, Rakitsky, Sable - Stepanenko, Sidorchuk, Malinovsky - Yarmolenko, Seleznev, Konoplyanka.
Words by Andriy Shevchenko, coach of the Ukrainian national team:.
"We held a very good gathering and were able to qualitatively prepare for the match against Finland. We respect our rival, like all the other teams in our group. The advantage of the Finnish team is that there is no pressure on the tournament table over it, we came for the victory. On it and tune. The result of the match against Malta should not lead anyone astray, it should have been just an exercise with increased responsibility, but it turned out with a lowered. This was a lesson for all of us. The guys realized the responsibility, and if someone was sleeping, then woke up. To get to the World Cup, we need to win all the remaining matches ".
Markku Kanerva, coach of the Finnish national team:.
"Ukraine is the favorite of the match, but that does not mean that we have no chance. And our match last fall in Odessa, and an unofficial friendly match against Malta showed that the Ukrainian team also has weaknesses.
The opponent has a lot of cool players, but football is a collective sport, and everything is decided by how well the team is ready. Our fights in the qualifying tournament and the friendly match against Liechtenstein show that sometimes we can not concentrate to decide the outcome in our favor. We are working on it. Tomorrow we will try to conduct our game and monitor the course of events on the field. At the same time, we prepared a surprise for Andriy Shevchenko, whom you will see tomorrow ".
Forecast 0: 1.