Today, the national team of Ukraine, famously defeating Turkey - 2: 0, will try to continue the winning streak in the away match against Iceland. Against us - a wounded beast: the Vikings will atone for the blame for a torsid for - 0: 1 from the Finns. "Today" singled out five chips of the upcoming confrontation. ROAD LONG ROAD. To get to Reykjavik, the "blue-yellow" overcame 3718 km, having made their longest flight in the history of official matches. The previous record kept the route Kiev-Almaty (3555 km), along which our flew to play with Kazakhstan. Both meetings took place in early September, and both times the Ukrainians returned with a victory (2: 1 and 3: 1). THERE SAME, THEN SAME. Before, Ukraine played only once in Iceland. And that match took place in Reykjavik 18 years ago, almost day in day - September 8, 1999. And the rivals by that time already had behind the Kiev meeting, which ended with the same score (1: 1), as in the current selection. The duel on the field "Laugardalsvellura" brought success to the Ukrainians - 1: 0. The only goal was scored shortly before the break from the penalty kick, which earned the current helmsman "blue-yellow" Andriy Shevchenko, and sold by Sergei Rebrov. Recall that in last year's rendezvous with "Vikings" Ukrainians could also win thanks to the 11-meter, which, alas, did not score Linnet. However, since then Yarmolenko approached the "point" and was more fortunate, having realized both blows. "BIG WASH". The name of the main arena of Iceland - "Laugardalsovellyur" - is perceived by our ear as some kind of gibberish, an incomprehensible and almost incomprehensible set of letters. The Icelanders themselves insist that everything is obvious and simple: the sports facility received the name for the name of the district where Laugardalur is located, the "velum" in Icelandic means "stadium", "field". And the name of the district is translated as "washing valley". Earlier, approximately at the place where the stadium stands, the river flowed warm from the geysers, on the banks of which women washed the laundry. So when Andriy Shevchenko after the game with Turkey said: "Everything will wash out, if we do not win from Iceland", perhaps even without knowing it, I picked up a surprisingly accurate epithet. THEIR "BEKHEM". According to Transfermarkt, the cost of Iceland's national team is considerably inferior to Ukrainians (59 million and 93 million). Meanwhile, the leader of the "Vikings" Gilfi Sigurdsson this summer changed club registration (from "Swansea" to "Everton") for 49 million - twice as expensive than Dortmund paid for the leader of "blue-yellow" Andrei Yarmolenko. And in the Premier League they are sure that he is worth this money: for the previous three seasons Gilfi, for the ability to elegantly fulfill the standards nicknamed "Icelandic Beckham", scored 53 points on the system "goal + pass" - a very serious indicator for the Premier League. In addition, last season he became the most efficient player of the Premier League, running back in the amount of 433 km. A STRICT TEACHER. The main arbiter of today's match will be Scotsman William Colum - 38-year-old school teacher from Glasgow. His last "lessons" for us were not the most pleasant. In March 2015, in an away match between FC Shakhtar and FC Bayern Munchen in 1/8, FC Colloom eliminated Kucera in the 3rd minute with a penalty shot at Pyatov. The result is remembered - 0: 7. And last autumn in the group of Champions League the Scotlet recorded the home defeat of "Dynamo" from "Napoli" (1: 2), also not without cost without removal, again more than doubtful, for Sidorchuk.

Colloom is generally known as a very strict judge. But we have nine players at once "hang" on cards: Ordets, Rotan, Stepanenko, Zinchenko, Shepelev, Kovalenko, Konoplyanka, Kravets and Besedin. Let's remind, Iceland and Ukraine are fighting for getting into the World Cup. By the way, we are conducting a survey, is it worth the team of Ukraine, in case of hitting, go to the 2018 World Cup in Russia.

Original article: Iceland - Ukraine: from "washing" Sheva to a strict teacher.