Euro 2020. Luxembourg vs Ukraine: all the fun on match day

25.03.2019 22:17

Today in Luxembourg at the stadium "Josie Barthel" the national team of Ukraine will hold its own another match in a qualifying tournament UEFA EURO 2020. The opponent is a local national team.

The starting line-up of the Luxembourg national team: 1. Morris, 13. Carlson, 2. Chano, 4. Málaga, 18. Jans (k), 15. O. Till, 8. Martins Pereira, 16. Barreiro Martins, 6. Rodriguez, 10. W. Till, 20 Turpel.

Substitutions: 3. Mahmutovic, 5. Bonert, 6. Gelson Rodriguez, 7. Gerson, 9. Da Moto, 11. Bensy, 12. Sean, 14. Shinani, 17. Mutsch, 19. Janish, 21. Skenderovic, 22. Joachim, 23. Kips.

Start the composition of the national team of Ukraine: 12. Andriy Pyatov (k), 2. Bogdan Butko, 5. Nikita Burda, 22. Mykola Matvienko, 13. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovsky, 9. Roman Bezus, 10. Yevhen Konoplyanka, 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 17. Alexander Zinchenko, 19. Junior Moraes.

Substitutions: 1. Denis Boyko, 3. Eduard Sobol, 4. Sergey Krivtsov, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 7. Mykola Shaparenko, 11. Artem Shabanov, 14. Vitaliy Buyalsky, 16. Sergey Sidorchuk, 18. Roman Yaremchuk, 20. Sergey Bolbat, 21. Alexander Karavaev, 23. Andrey Lunin.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

While the players of the national team of Ukraine have just left the hotel for the stadium "Josie Barthel" for their second match of Euro 2020, against the team of Luxembourg, another rival of the blue and yellows in the group, the team of Lithuania, has already played a friendly match today. In Baku, the Baltics parted ways with Azerbaijan - 0:0.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Today's match may be special for the attacking midfielder of the national team of Ukraine Yevhen Konoplyanka. If our footballer plays in a match, this match will be his 80th in our national team. According to this indicator, Schalke midfielder will overtake Andriy Yarmolenko in the register of guardsmen and will share seventh or eighth place with him.

Moreover, if Yevhen manages to score a goal, this goal will be his 20th in the shirt of the national team of Ukraine.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

On the eve of the match, one of the leaders of the national team of Ukraine, midfielder Ruslan Malinovsky, noticedthat there are no weak rivals in football now ...

Photo by Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi

Neither the VAR system nor the Goal Line Technology will be used in the Luxembourg-Ukraine match. It was the same a few days ago in Lisbon.

Photo by flf.lu

On the eve of the meeting with the Ukrainians head coach of the Luxembourg national team Luke Holtz paid tribute to his opponent: “The national team of Ukraine is a formidable opponent. They have a team of technical players who skillfully act in all parts of the field. "

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

The national team of Ukraine is to leave the Melia Hotel for the Josie Barthel Stadium at 20.00 pm Kyiv time. The match with Luxembourg will start at 21.45 in Kyiv.

Photo by Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi

Today in Luxembourg our team will not be left without support. About one thousand Ukrainian fans are expected in the stands of Josie Barthel Stadium.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

On the eve of today's match, the head coach of the national team of Ukraine warned its footballers and fans from underestimating the possibilities of Luxembourg: “Luxembourg is a team that deserves respect. We watched her matches. Over the last few years, this team has achieved success, it knows how to play football. "

Photo by uefa.com

By the way, you may have missed it, but yesterday in Amsterdam before the Euro 2020 match between the Netherlands and Germany, UEFA presented the official mascot of the continental championship. Meet Skillsey!

Photo by Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi

The last preparations for today's match are underway at the Josie Barthel Stadium.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

By the way, yesterday the defender of Kyiv "Dynamo" and our national team Nikita Burda celebrated his 24th birthday. The team congratulated the birthday boy with warm hugs and sincere wishes… Let's join!  

Graphics ffu.ua

Interestingly, the modest national team of Luxembourg only once in its history missed the continental championship. It happened in the debut tournament, the final of which took place in 1960 in France. As part of the Euro qualifiers, the team played 110 matches. She won eight times, drew 10 matches and lost in 92. The difference between goals scored and conceded is 46-304.

Photo by palloliitto.fi

A team of referees from Finland, led by 40-year-old Matthias Gestranius, will work in today's match. He will be assisted on the lines by Jan-Peter Aravirta and Mikko Alacare. Petri Villanen will act as the fourth judge.

Graphics ffu.ua

It is interesting that lately our opponent has been performing quite well at his home stadium. In the last 10 matches in the capital, the Luxembourgers have suffered only two defeats - from Austria and Belarus.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Traditionally, on the day of the match, our national team made a walking tour of the city. Of course, this promenade was not ignored by the fans of the Ukrainian national team.

Graphics ffu.ua

Throughout its history, the national team of Ukraine has met three times with the team of Luxembourg and, as if by tradition, beat it with the same score - 3: 0. 

In a friendly match, Luxembourg was upset by goals scored by Andriy Voronin, Maksym Kalinichenko and the current coach of the Ukrainian national team Andriy Shevchenko.

Andriy Yarmolenko knocked out his hat-trick in the first match in the selection for Euro 2016. And in the Lviv meeting for our team killed Artem Kravets, Denis Garmash and Yevgeny Konoplyanka.

Photo by Oleksandr Hlyvynskyi

At a traditional pre-match meeting, with the participation of officials of the meeting and representatives of the teams that just ended, among other things, it was decided that the Ukrainian national team would play in the yellow form. The hosts of the field will fight in the red set.

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Official application of the national team of Ukraine for the match against Luxembourg (by numbers): 1. Denis Boyko, 2. Bohdan Butko, 3. Eduard Sobol, 4. Sergey Krivtsov, 5. Nikita Burda, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 7. Mykola Shaparenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovsky, 9. Roman Bezus, 10. Yevhen Konoplyanka, 11. Artem Shabanov, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 13. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 14. Vitaliy Buyalsky, 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 16. Sergey Sidorchuk, 17. Alexander Zinchenko, 18. Roman Yaremchuk, 19. Junior Moraes, 20. Sergey Bolbat, 21. Alexander Karavaev, 22. Mykola Matvienko, 23. Andriy Lunin.

Compared to the application to the starting game, against Portugal (0: 0), in our team there were two changes: Artem Kravets and Marlos dropped out of the clip due to injuries, and their places were taken by Artem Shabanov and Sergey Bolbat.

Oftional application national team Luxembourgin the match against Ukraine (behind numbersи): 1. Anthony Morris, 2. Maxim Shano, 3. Enes Mahmutovic, 4. Kevin Malge, 5. Florian Bonert, 6. Gelson Rodriguez, 7. Lars Gerson, 8. Christopher Martins Pereira, 9. Daniel Da Mota, 10. Vincent Till, 11. Stefano Bensi, 12. Ralph Sean, 13. Dirk Carlson, 14. Daniel Sinani, 15. Oliver Till, 16. Leandro Berreiro Martins, 17. Mario Mutsch, 18. Laurent Jans, 19. Matthias Janish, 20.. Dave Turpel, 21. Aldin Skenderovic, 22. Orelen Joakim, 23. Tim Kips.