Football. Ua assesses the actions of the players of the Ukrainian national team in the match of selection for the 2018 World Cup with Finland.

Andriy Pyatov - 6. 0 Finns, as expected, could not strain the Ukrainian keeper - moments they almost did not have. When the ball flew towards Pyatov's gates, it usually flew by. In the case with the goal of guilt, Andrei is not - to save after finishing Pohjanpalu, it was necessary to make a save of the year. Andrew is not on these cases.

Bogdan Butko and Nikolay Matvienko - to 6. 0 From teams like Finland, you always wait for a large number of canopies from the flanks into the penalty area. Canopies, as a matter of fact, was not - accordingly the direct work the flanking defenders have made. But I would like more connections to the attack. Even not so much more, how much more qualitative. The Finns sated the center of the field, and stretching them through the flanks would be a good idea, but it did not turn out very well. The interaction of flanking midfielders and defenders was weak. And if Yarmolenko and Butko at least created something in a duet, then Konoplyanka and Matvienko acted separately. However, Butko and Matvienko tried, another question, that the overall level of command teamwork influenced the quality of their work.

Yaroslav Rakitsky - 6. 5 I constantly tried to sharpen the game with transfers from the depths: both bottom and top. We can not say that it turned out super, like everything that our team had this evening, but regular attempts to think through every attack and make it dangerous from the first pass deserve big compliments. For example, Malinovsky, who played closer to the gate of Finland, was not as sharp in the programs as Rakytskyi. The episode with a missed goal, when the ball hit the crossbar from the head of Rakitsky, and Pohjanpala finished off - no more than an accident. In addition, he immediately gave an assist to Bezedin.

Ivan Ordets - 6. 0 The Finns could not create so many moments that at least somehow strain our tsentrbekov. Ordin imperceptibly did all the dirty work, giving Rakytsky the opportunity to focus on designing attacks in their initial phase. All the time interrupted, intercepted and knocked out.

Taras Stepanenko - 5. 5 and Victor Kovalenko - 5. 0 These two were responsible for the support zone. Stepanenko played exclusively on defense, sometimes sinking directly to the central defenders, and Kovalenko acted a little higher. Frankly speaking, neither Taras nor Viktor this time impressed with the impassability of the central bridgehead. Several times the Finns often slipped through the center of the field, stopping already closer to the penalty area. But, if Stepanenko can only be shown this (the fact that he did not even come close to the penalty hosts, it's the tenth thing - he has other functions), then Kovalenko once again ran a lot of kilometers, but could not really block the center of the field, neither in Attack has not created anything. To make the game from the core zone a bit more acute and meaningful, Shevchenko released instead of Kovalenko Shepeleva. True, time was not particularly in Vladimir.

Eugene Konoplyanka - 7. 0 Finally, the Linnet played a good match. Not as he can, but better than recently. Obviously, Zhenya was encouraged by the dismissal of coach Schalke Weinzirl. He was very active, moved a lot from the flank to the center. True, without his standard outward strikes, but his canopies were dangerous. For example, on the 25th minute Linnet well hung on the far post to Seleznev, but the wife almost did not have enough growth for a more accented strike. But he Linnet scored. Although there his merit was only in the fact that he was at the right time in the right place (having played, by the way, in the style of Seleznev). Could Zhenya and become the author of assists. In his own gate, the truth ... Slipped, brought Pukki one on one with Pyatov - it's good that the Finn did not hit.

Andrey Yarmolenko - 6. 5 Finns were well prepared for the meeting of Andrew - they guarded him very tightly, several people. In the first half Yarmolenko was closed tightly. All that he had in the first half - an assistant to Seleznev in the 40th minute, but Zhenya did not score. In the second half, he recovered along with the whole team, could score after a classy throw-in strike, but the ball fell off his feet. It was in the 48th minute, and on 52nd Andrey took part in scoring. This he gorgeous casting behind the backs of the defenders found himself involved from the depths of Malinowski, as a result of which scored the Linnet. But, in general, of course, Yarmolenko should create more for the game.

Ruslan Malinovsky - 6. 0 It can be seen that Ruslan is not yet accustomed to the national team. At the beginning of the game I tried to punch from afar, but getting caught up with Seleznev for not giving the pass, in the future I tried only to assist. I took a little game on myself, I did not conduct as well as he knows how. But here, rather, the question of experience. Malinovsky participated in the first goal, well connected from the depths.

Eugene Seleznev - 5. 5 Not a very good match for Seleznev. Even though he was inactive and unobtrusive, he still found his moments (rather, half-moments), but he could not realize. First of all, we are talking about the moments after the transfer of Konoplyanki and Yarmolenko on the 25th and 40th minutes.

There was another episode when Seleznev beat from the semicircle after the transfer of Matvienko (a combination, by the way, started by Seleznev himself from the center of the field with a pass to Malinovsky), but it is difficult to call even a semi-moment.

Artem Besedin - 7. 0 Perfectly involved in the game - immediately added the movement in front, a lot of pressing the defensive line of the Finns, clinging to the balls. Well, I became the author of the winning goal - it is enough to put even high praise for 25 minutes of playing time.

Vladimir Shepelev and Eduard Sobol did not work for the assessment.

Alexander Osirny, Football. Ua Author: Alexander Ozirnyy.