Football. ua presents the announcement of the duel between the national teams of Germany and Ukraine within the League of Nations.
The Ukrainian national team will have one of the most difficult matches in this calendar year. The away match against Germany in the League of Nations will clearly be a real test for Shevchenko's team.
Germany - Ukraine November 14, Saturday, 21:45. Central Stadium, Leipzig. Ovidiu Hatsegan (Romania) - chief arbiter of the meeting. Broadcast on the TV channel Ukraine and Football 1.
Very soon we will find out if the national team of Ukraine will be able to put up a worthy resistance to the German team.. In the old days, the Ukrainian national team had a kind of tendency - always after the team got together, play a good first match and fail the second. But trends are changing. Last time we started with a disastrous result in France. The game with the Germans was the second. Its Ukrainians also lost, but with a minimal score. And Ukraine managed to win the third match against the Spaniards.
Now in the first friendly match against Poland, Ukraine lost again, and the second match is to be played against the Germans again. In the previous game, the German national team did not look like a monolithic well-coordinated team, against which teams of the level of Ukraine have no chance. Yes, the Germans regularly created scoring chances at the gates of Georgy Buschan, but in defense they allowed a lot of their opponent.
Andriy Shevchenko and his coaching staff learned the previous lessons and realized that we can play through short passes and through ball control only with teams below or equal to us, but not with top teams.. Teams of the level of Germany, Spain and others break all hopes and dreams of playing short passing with their high pressure with a large number of players, and therefore we have to look for options for long vertical passes and quick attacks.
It is very important how in the upcoming match our forward will be able to cling to these balls and whether he will be able to impose a worthy fight on the defenders of the Bundestim. In the upcoming fight, it is extremely important to win a lot of fights, especially for the attacking players. And, of course, rebound in the second third of the field is very important.. There the German national team will exert maximum pressure on our players. There is a hope that our trio Zinchenko-Malinovsky-Stepanenko will not get confused and will be able to get out of this situation with dignity.
On the eve of the match, the official website of the UAF announced new infected players in the Ukrainian national team: Viktor Kovalenko, Serhiy Sidorchuk, Andriy Yarmolenko and Viktor Tsygankov. Sidorchuk and Kovalenko - not such tangible losses for the main team. It is unlikely that these players would have even appeared on the field in a match against Germany, except after coming on as a substitute.. But the loss of Yarmolenko and Tsygankov is a strong blow to the prospects in the future match.. And if with his experience and skill Marlos can somehow compensate for the loss of Yarmolenko on the right flank, then in the match against Poland we all clearly saw how big the difference between Tsygankov and Zubkov is now. The loss of the leader of Kiev Dynamo looks irreparable on the eve of this fight. On the day of the game, the Ukrainians will have to pass one more test, we very much hope that there will be no new cases.
The defeat from Poland still inspires confidence and hope for a good game in the match against the Germans..
If Yarmolenko and Tsygankov had not been eliminated, then it would have been quite possible to take a risk and bet on a draw, but in the new circumstances, Germany's minimal victory looks like a completely logical outcome of this meeting.
Head-to-head statistics Total games: 7 (Germany 4 wins, 3 draws, 0 Ukraine wins), goals scored 14: 6 On the field of Germany: 3 matches (3 Germany wins, 0 draws, 0 Ukrainian victories), goals scored 8: 1 On the field. ua Author: Sergey Gorbachenko.