Wards of Andrey Shevchenko lost to the team that occupies the 186th place in the FIFA rating.

Malta - island state in the Mediterranean Sea. The population of the country is less than half a million people.

The football team never reached the heights, and the victory at least in one match of the qualifying tournaments for the World Cup and European Championship spoke of a well-established tournament.

In total, on the account of the team of Malta, which has its history since 1957, only five wins in official matches, which the team conducted 199.

In friendly matches the situation is much better - 43 wins in 177 matches. However, many matches were won against very interesting teams:

Tunisia B, Lebanon, Gabon, in the 70's and 80's several times was defeated Libya. Earlier in Malta there was a friendly tournament, to which the participating teams did not bring the strongest teams.

In recent years, the Maltese are rapidly falling down in the ranking of FIFA and currently occupy 182nd place in it.

The fight against Ukraine was for the islanders only the fourth won since 2013 (Armenia, the Faroe Islands, Lithuania) and the first in two years.