The Ukrainian team led by Andrey Shevchenko made a pretty successful visit to the Czech Republic the day before. Of course, if it were not for Alexander Zinchenko's goal already in the compensated time, the overall impression of a fairly good game of the Ukrainian team would be somewhat blurred different from the maximum achieved result. That meeting was completed, 2: 1 in favor of the national team of Ukraine, and already in the next match as the opponent was waiting for the national team of Slovakia.

The duel with the empty stands of the "Arena Lviv" (the long-earned "ban" from UEFA for the Nazi symbolism in the fan sector during a home match against Spain) began with a rather timid intelligence of the opponent's defense on the part of both teams. The first to designate their "home" status was the Ukrainians. Linnet wanted to perform something similar to his memorable goal from the match against the England team at Wembley, but too struck from afar, sending the ball well above the gate.

Guests focused on the game through the flanks. Especially strongly tried to help his team, Robert Mack. And one of his innings, later, after all, fell exactly on Adam Adam's head. Outside forward managed to push Nikita Burda, but the subsequent blow fell by the near post of the gate Pyatov.

The most acute moment for the Ukrainian team at the goal of others in the first half can be considered quite a bold attempt to break from the penalty meters from forty from Ruslan Malinovsky. Dubravka clearly did not expect such a decisive action from the opponent's midfielder and already could not help his team, but the ball just dropped on top of the net of his goal.

The end of the first half for the national team of Ukraine could lubricate a little the moment that arose in Vladimir Weiss as a result of an accurate pitch from Robert Mack. Team Shevchenko in that episode was lucky - the ball fell from the foot of the midfielder and went a considerable distance from the goal.

But the second half of the Ukrainian team turned out pretty crumpled. Perhaps, some fatigue affected: the restoration after the match with the Czechs was allocated only two days. As a result, the most dangerous moment at the gates of Dubravka could be observed at the very beginning of the final half of the match. Malinowski played the chamber with a free kick, and the ball into his own net was almost cut off by Shkriniar.

In the rest of the time, the "weather" on the football field was managed exclusively by the wards of Jan Kozak. And here it is worth noting certain successes in the work of the coaching staff on the game in defense. Yes, the indifferent spectators could clutch at the heart after Rakytsky's adventurous attempt to beat two opponents in the penalty area, but the football players did not allow any significant positional errors. If Slovakia, and there were moments at our gates, they all ended inaccurate blows at once, which somewhat reduced the possible threat to the possessions of Pyatov.

In duels with such a scenario, often, the decisive word is left for the team coaches. Andriy Shevchenko has already shown his "flair" on the Czech football fields and decided to repeat the success, throwing into the fight consistently Alexander Zinchenko and Viktor Tsygankov. It worked! Midfielder Manchester City sent a breakthrough to the gate of his colleague in the role of casting on the flank, Victor threw the ball on his course and in a moment was shot down by Shkriniar. All this was happening in the guests' penalty area, which, without a doubt, was to result in the appointment of a penalty. The referee did not go against the obvious facts, and Andrei Yarmolenko implemented the punishment. Many will say that the "winger" West Ham was lucky with the rebound from the goalkeeper. It's pointless to argue, but the final score on the scoreboard.

Until the end of the fight there were still just over ten game minutes. During this time, Andrei Pyatov once even managed to save our gates: the head punched Mack, but the guard of Donetsk's Shakhtar's goal with a stroke coped, and Zinchenko carried the ball over the side.

In the end, we have a 100% result from Shevchenko's wards after the two played League of Nations tournaments and single-handed lead in the standings.

An excellent result of the first gathering of national teams in the new season!.

Ukraine - Slovakia 1: 0.

Goal: Yarmolenko, 81 (pen.

Ukraine: Pyatov-Karavaev, Burda, Rakitsky, Matvienko-Malinovsky (Zinchenko, 71), Stepanenko (Sidorchuk, 86), Marlos-Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Konoplyanka (Tsygankov, 78).

Slovakia: Dubravka - Shatka, Skrtel, Shkriniar, Gubochan - Kutsk (Gregush, 79), Lobotka - Mak, Hamshik, Weiss (Rusnak, 70) - German (Duda, 66).

Warnings: Linnet, Sidorchuk - Gubochan, Duda.