U-21: Today the youth team of Ukraine will hold the first match under the leadership of Ruslan Rotany

21.03.2019 12:02

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In total, the youth national team of Ukraine will play four matches during the Turkish stage of training.

Today at 14.00 with a match against the youth national team of Estonia the national team of Ukraine U-21 will start the program of control matches in Turkey within the framework of the international tournament in which national teams of Kazakhstan, Latvia and Macedonia will also take part.

It will be recalled that the competition in Belek will be held on a circuit system with two exceptions. As the youth national teams of Latvia and Estonia (as well as the teams of Kazakhstan and Macedonia) are in the same qualifying group for Euro 2021 (U-21), matches between them will not be held.

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In this regard, to determine the winner of the tournament in the standings of each team will go only three duels. Thus, the Ukrainians will become the only team that will play four matches in Turkey, but a meeting with Estonia will not give them points. But for the Estonians, this match will have a tournament value.

As this match is not of tournament significance for the national team of Ukraine, Ruslan Rotan plans to involve all the players who came to the training camp. It is possible that the team will be divided into two conditional compositions without reference to the "basis". Exactly in the match with the Estonians will not play the striker of the Portuguese "Boavista" Eugene Serdyuk, who exacerbated the injury received at the club last week. The rookie will miss the second game and the second game, but the mentors expect that Eugene will be able to prove himself in the final two matches of the tournament.

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In general, the first two days of the national team in Turkey passed in one breath. All footballers are interested in Ruslan Rotan's demands. Much attention is paid to tactical moments, especially when leaving the defense to attack.

Schedule of tournament matches

It will be recalled that this training is one of the stages of team preparation for official competitions. In the qualifying tournament for Euro-2021 (U-21)  blue and yellow will start on September 6 match with Finland.