U-18: Ukraine's youth team lost to the Bulgarians in the second friendly match

23.03.2019 19:50

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At the training camp, which took place in Bulgaria, Oleg Kuznetsov's wards held a second control match with the hosts.

Today the Ukrainian national team (football players not older than 2001) played away the second friendly match with the Bulgarian peers. We will remind that two days earlier Oleg Kuznetsov's wards gave up the bill 0:3.

Unfortunately, it was not possible to avoid defeat in blue and yellow this time. 0: 1. However, it is not necessary to draw any far-reaching conclusions, as the head coach of the national team of Ukraine could not count on many of the main executors of his team ...

As for the match itself, the Ukrainians conceded a goal in the 75th minute. With 79 minutes played, the visitors could have scored the tying goal after 11 minutes, but the shot went just wide.

Friendly Match 

Bulgaria (U-18) - Ukraine (U-18) - 1: 0 (0: 0)

Goal: (75)

Ukraine: Morgun, Pinchuk (Mudryk, 46), Kalenchuk, Yakuba, Danylyuk, Handyman, Gurov (Bodnya, 50), Litvinenko (Voloshin, 46), Shamich (Chyruk, 46), Melnyichuk, Zavgorodniy (Yarosh, 50).

It will be recalled that the matches of the Euro 2020 (U-19) qualifying tournament, for which Oleg Kuznetsov's team is preparing, will pass November 13, 16, and 19. The rivals of the Ukrainians in the fight for the tickets to the elite round of competitions will be national teams of Sweden, Slovenia and Estonia.