Futsal Ukraine national team draws with Slovenian team in second match of pre-2020 World Cup

26.10.2019 00:39

In the second match of the main round of selection for the 2020 World Cup, Oleksandr Kosenko's wards parted ways with the Slovenian team.

The second blue-yellow opponent in Skopje was the Slovenian team, which also started successfully in qualifying. The Ukrainians won the first round Kosovo - 7: 1, the Slovenians scored in the match the hosts of the qualifying tournament one ball less.

Representatives of the Balkan country were the first to stand out in today's match. Shortly before the break, Kristian Chuyets scored a goal for Ukraine. At the beginning of the second half, Petro Shoturma leveled the situation, and then Mykola Mykytyuk brought the blue and yellows ahead from the penalty spot. But soon the Slovenes, through the efforts of Rock Mordey, made the score equal again - 2: 2. This result was final.

World Cup 2020. The main selection round. European area. Group 2

2 round

Slovenia - Ukraine - 2: 2 (1: 0)

Goal: Chuets (17), Mordey (34) - Shoturma (22), Mykytyuk (30, from the penalty spot).

Slovenia: Pushkar - Chuets, Osredkar, Turk, Fidersherkar - Lovrencic, Mordey, Hozyan, Zaits, Koren, Bukovets, Fetich, Duschak, Cech.

Ukraine: Ivanyak - Mykytyuk, Farenyuk, Korsun, Shoturma - Malyshko, Razuvanov, Sorokin, Korolyshyn, Zhurba, Pedyash, Zvarych, Litvinenko, Tsypun.

Booked: Fidersherkar (30), Mordey (37) - Mykytyuk (17), Malyshko (32), Farenyuk (39).

Northern Macedonia - Kosovo - 5: 7 (2: 4)

Standings

3 round

27.10 18.30     Ukraine - North Macedonia

27.10 21.00 Kosovo - Slovenia

The first and second teams of each of the eight groups of the main round of selection will make it to the elite round.

At the next stage, the 16 national teams will be divided into four quartets on November 7 this year, the winners of which will go directly to the World Cup. The fights of the elite round will take place on January 28 - February 2, 2020. The teams that take second place in the groups will advance to the playoffs, where two more World Cup tickets will be drawn. Butt matches are scheduled for April 9 and 12, 2020.

Thus, six European selection teams will join Lithuania, which will host the World Forum on September 12 - October 4, 2020.

We will also add that AFC (Asia) will be able to send five teams to the 2020 World Cup, CAF (Africa) - three, CONCACAF (North and Central America) - four, CONMEBOL (South America) - four, OFC (Oceania) - one. A total of 24 teams will take part in the world championship.