Friendly match Ukraine - Nigeria: all the most interesting on the day of the match

10.09.2019 22:16

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Today in Dnipro at the stadium "Dnipro-Arena" will be a friendly match Ukraine - Nigeria (beginning - at 21.30).

The starting line-up of the national team of Ukraine: 23. Andriy Lunin, 2. Eduard Sobol, 22. Mykola Matvienko, 5. Mykyta Burda, 21. Alexander Karavaev, 8. Ruslan Malinovsky, 17. Alexander Zinchenko, 20. Victor Kovalenko, 15. Viktor Tsigankov, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko ( j), 9 Junior Moraes.

Substitutions: 1. Yuriy Pankov, 2. Sergey Bolbat, 4. Sergey Krivtsov, 6. Vladimir Shepelev, 10. Yevhen Konoplyanka, 11. Marlos, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 13. Igor Plastun, 14. Vitaliy Buyalsky, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 18 Roman Yaremchuk, 19. Roman Bezus.

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Ukraine-Nigeria will work in today's friendly match a team of arbitrators from Italy, led by Paolo Valerie.

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In the locker room of our national team at the "Dnipro-Arena" everything is ready for the arrival of the team.

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The last preparations for today's match are going on at Dnipro-Arena.

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Throughout the history of its existence, the national team of Ukraine managed to hold six matches with representatives of the African continent.

The statistics of these meetings are in favor of our team. The Ukrainian national team never lost, drawing three times.

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To date, the 81st journalist has been accredited, including 29 photojournalists.

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The last time the national team of Ukraine played its match was at the Dnipro-Arena stadium a little less than 10 years ago, on October 10, 2009.

Then, as part of the 2010 World Cup qualifiers, our team defeated England 1-0. Serhiy Nazarenko scored the only goal for the visitors in the 29th minute.

It is interesting that the current players of the blue-yellows Andrey Pyatov and Andrey Yarmolenko and the head coach of our team Andriy Shevchenko came together on the field. Another team coach, Alexander Shovkovsky, remained in stock.

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By the way, during the walk, the coach of the physical training of the national team of Ukraine Ivan Bashtovy offered to just stretch in the shade - yes, for a good mood.

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On the day of the match, our team took a traditional walk ...

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As of the morning of September 10, 24 tickets for the match had already been sold. A total of 000 tickets were issued. So, apparently, today the "Dnipro-Arena" is expected to be sold out.

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The traditional pre-match meeting approved, among other things, what sets of form the teams of Ukraine and Nigeria play today.

For the first time, our players will come to the match in a white set. Rivals will play in dark green.

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Application of the national team of Ukraine for a match against Nigeria (by numbers): 1. Yuriy Pankov, 2. Edward Sobol, 3. Sergey Bolbat, 4. Sergey Krivtsov, 5. Nikita Burda, 6. Vladimir Shepelev, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovsky, 9. Junior Moraes, 10. Yevgeny Konoplyanka, 11. Marlos, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 13. Igor Plastun, 14. Vitaliy Buyalsky, 15. Victor Tsygankov, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 17. Alexander Zinchenko, 18. Roman Yaremchuk, 19. Roman Bezus, 20. Victor Kovalenko, 21 Alexander Karavaev, 22. Mykola Matvienko, 23. Andriy Lunin.