The defeat of Malta was a real shock for fans, and Football. Ua recalls, when did the team so much disappointed.
Friendly match with Malta did not cause a lot of excitement among fans. Moreover, the choice of the opponent was caused by a certain flurry of criticism - they say, it was necessary to choose someone stronger. As the result showed - it was not worth it.
The game with Malta will definitely go down in the collection of the worst games of the national team. And, probably, will head this questionable list.
2007, Qualifying tournament of Euro 2008 Lithuania - Ukraine 2: 0 Goals: Savenas, 41, Danilevicius, 67 Lithuania: Karchemarskas - Dedura, Skerla, Jvirgziauskas, Paulauskas, Klimavicius - Stankevicius, Papeckis (Morinas, 17), Savenas - Jankauskas ( Mindaugas, 90), Danilevicius (Wieliczka, 82) Ukraine: Shovkovsky (Pyatov, 44) - Vaschuk, Yezersky, Chigrinsky - Shelaev (Nazarenko, 72), Tymoshchuk, Gusev, Rotan, Guy - Voronin (Milevsky, 69) Contender in the FIFA ranking: 61 The selection for Euro 2008 gave us a very difficult group, from which it was almost impossible to enter the tournament. Finalists of the last World Cup Italy and France, unyielding Scots and, as it turned out, a difficult Lithuania with Georgia.
Ukraine at that time also seemed not a gift, because it approached the selection as a participant in the 1/4 finals of the World Cup, but in that group nothing good was seen.
Draw with Georgia, defeat from the Scots, and for a few rounds to the end Ukraine has already lost the chance to withdraw from the group.
In this mood, Blokhin's team came to the match with Lithuania and everything ended quite simply. A goal in each half, the full advantage of the hosts and the first victory of Lithuania over Ukraine over the past 13 years.
2001, friendly match Cyprus - Ukraine 4: 3 Goals: Okkas, 17, Engomitis, 39, Malekos, 81 (penalties), Charalambus, 104 - Melashchenko, 9, Vorobey, 57, 63 Cyprus: Constantine, Connafis, Mlanakratis, Philip , Michael (Panayotu, 82), Punnas (Charalaibus, 68), Emgomitis (Theodotu, 46), Christodoulou (Themistocleus, 67), Occas, Malekos, M. Konstantin (Agafokleus, 46) Ukraine: Levitsky - Granovsky, Snytko, Nesmachny, Vashchuk - Parfev, Lisitsky (Tymoshchuk, 61), Prizetko (Kardash, 42), Yashkin - Sparrow, Melashchenko Removal: Yashkin, 81 Position of the opponent in the FIFA rating: 62 To concede to modular island countries to Ukraine not for the first time. The match with Cyprus also wore a comradely status and left a very unpleasant impression.
The game took place in Cyprus as part of a friendly tournament. Ukraine had to face the Cypriots in the match for third place, as the first game with Romania ended in defeat.
Yes, there was ambiguous refereeing, there were no Shovkovsky, Rebrov and Shevchenko, which still can not serve as an excuse. To score 4 goals in the opponent's gate Cyprus could not so often in history, but Ukraine on this questionable list was.
Unfortunately (or even fortunately), the video review of this match does not pop up on the net.
2002, friendly match Belarus - Ukraine 2: 0 Goals: Belkevich, 48, Gleb, 63 Belarus: Tumilovich - Khrapkovsky, Ostrovsky, Shanyuk-Shuneyko, Kulchiy (Kovba, 51) - Gurenko (Yaskovich, 91+), A. Gleb (Volodenkov, 88), Belkevich, M. Romashchenko (Omelyanchuk, 83) - Khatskevich (Kutuzov, 80) Ukraine: Shovkovsky - Dmitrulin (Zadorozhny, 80), Golovko, Fedorov, Nesmachny - Vashchuk (Skripnik, 61), Kalinichenko, Gusin (Popov, 69), Musolitin (Shishchenko, 61) - Sparrow (Zotov, 77), Rebrov (Kormiltsev, 56).
The position of the opponent in the FIFA rating: 88 The northern neighbors have always had a strong composition, but the confrontations with Ukraine usually ended in favor of the yellow-blue. However, in the history of the Belarusian national team there is also a successful match.
The friendly game for the LG Cup was held again without the participation of Andrey Shevchenko, but the remaining important performers were still in place.
Nevertheless, this did not help Ukraine. Quick goal Belkevich in the debut of the second half put our team in an uncomfortable position. Well, after 15 minutes, an unknown to anyone Alexander Gleb account doubled.
2004, Friendly Match Macedonia - Ukraine 1: 0 Goal: Stavrevski, 26 Macedonia: Miloszewski (Nikolovski), Stavreski, Sedlosky, Mitreski (Kumbev), Stoyanovsky (Bozhinovsky), Mitrevsky, Shumulikoski (Mustafi), Dimitrovsky, Shakiri, Krstev, Yanchevsky (Tolesky) Ukraine: Shovkovsky - Rusol, Simonenko (Matyukhin), Checher, Parfenov - Gusev (Rebrov), Tymoschuk, Rotan, Rykun, Nazarenko (Kalinichenko) - Shevchenko (Kosyrin) Position of the opponent in the rating of FIFA: 92 Oleg Blokhin has already accepted Team, which failed to qualify for Euro 2004. The first steps on the post of head coach did not cause any special enthusiasm. You can even say that few people then expected to enter the World Cup in Germany. The team was in disassembled condition, which confirmed the control match with the team of Macedonia.
Ukraine acted not the most basic composition, but even this does not erase from history a failure with a fairly mediocre team.
2017, friendly match Ukraine - Malta 0: 1 Goal: W. Muscat, 14 Ukraine: Pyatov - Morozyuk (Sobol, 46), Kucher (Ordets, 46), Rakitsky (Krivtsov, 46), Matvienko (Butko, 46) - Sidorchuk (Malyshev, 46), Stepanenko (Shakhov, 46) - Yarmolenko (Konoplyanka, 46), Kovalenko (Shepelev, 46), Malinovsky (Tsygankov, 46) - Seleznev (Besedin, 46) Malta: Hogg (Bonello, 46) - Christensen (D. Camilleri, 67), A. Muscat (Beerman, 90 + 1), Fenech (Bezzina, 82), Agius-Pisani, Borg (Magri, 90 + 2), W. Muscat (R. Camilleri, 46), Failla (Zerafa, 57) - Effion (Mifsud, 70), Shembri (Gambin, 61) Warnings: The coachman - Z.
Muscat Position in FIFA rating: 182 As they say, the bottom is punched. For Malta, victory over any opponent is an event out of the ordinary.. A triumph over Ukraine - this is perhaps one of the biggest milestones in the history of a modest national team.
It remains only to hope that the defeat of Malta in a friendly - this is the worst that was with our team. And ahead there is only a bright future.
Sergey Petrov, Football. Ua Author: Сергей Петров.