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

Today in Chorzow on Silesian Stadium a friendly match Poland - Ukraine will take place (kick-off - at 2 p.m.1.45 Kyiv time).

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The starting line-up of the national team of Ukraine: 23. Andriy Lunin, 16. Bohdan Mykhailychenko, 22. Mykola Matvienko, 4. Serhiy Kryvtsov, 13. Yukhym Konoplya, 21. Yevhen Makarenko, 17. Oleksandr Zinchenko, 20. Viktor Kovalenko, 19. Oleksandr Zubkov, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko ( j), 9. Roman Yaremchuk.

Substitutions: 1. Yuriy Pankiv, 2. Eduard Sobol, 3. Ilya Zabarny, 5. Serhiy Sydorchuk, 6. Yevhen Cheberko, 8. Ruslan Malinovsky, 10. Junior Moraes, 11. Marlos, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 14. Ihor Kharatin, 15 Victor Tsygankov, 18. Valery Bondar.

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Today Poland celebrates the 102nd Independence Day. It will be recalled that, unfortunately, due to security measures related to the COVID-19 virus pandemic, the Poland-Ukraine match will take place without spectators…

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By the way, today everyone will hold control matches rivals of the national team of Ukraine in the League of Nations and at Euro 2020. Germany will host the Czech Republic in Leipzig (the match starts at 21.45 Kyiv time), Switzerland will compete against Belgium in Brussels (21.45), the Netherlands will play against Spain in Amsterdam (21.45), and Austria will play away against Luxembourg (21.30).

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The national team of Ukraine has already met with the Poles in Chorzow. It happened on October 6, 2001, when in the framework of the qualifying tournament for the 2002 World Cup, the teams parted ways - 1: 1. It is interesting that the only ball in the composition of our national team was scored by its current manager Andriy Shevchenko.

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Poland-Ukraine will work on today's match a team of arbitrators from Austria, led by 37-year-old Manuel Schuttengruber.

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It is interesting that for Chorzow it will be a pre-anniversary, 59th, match with the participation of the Polish national team. The hosts won 24 times, drew 18 times and lost 16 times. The difference between goals scored and conceded is 93-61.

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Throughout the history of relations between rivals, there is an interesting parity in their confrontation: three times Ukraine has won, three times it has been defeated, and two more meetings have ended in a draw. Even the difference between goals scored and conceded is 9-9.

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This morning, the full national team of Ukraine conducted a tactical training on the field of the stadium GKS "Katowice", which now plays in the second league of the Polish championship.

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Meanwhile became known referees who will work on the match of the fifth round of the group round of the League of Nations Germany - Ukraine, which will take place in Leipzig on November 14. The teams will be led by a Romanian team of judges led by 40-year-old Ovidiu Hatzegan.

Robert Lewandowski. Photo by pzpn.pl

The head coach of the Polish national team Jerzy Brzeczek did not include in the official application for the game against Ukraine three players from among the 26 that are now at his disposal. Midfielders Jakub Kaminski (Lech) and Grzegorz Krychowiak (Lokomotiv, Russia), as well as the main star of the current Kadra, forward of German Bayern Robert Lewandowski, will definitely not play against our team.

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At the traditional meeting with the participation of team representatives and match officials, it was decided that the national team of Ukraine will play in a blue kit. Their opponents will go on the field in white and red colors.

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Official application of the national team of Ukraine (by numbers)

1. Yurii Pankiv, 2. Eduard Sobol, 3. Illya Zabarnyi, 4. Serhii Kryvtsov, 5. Serhii Sydorchuk, 6. Yevhen Cheberko, 7. Andrii Yarmolenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovskyi, 9. Roman Yaremchuk, 10. Junior Moraes, 11. Marlos, 12. Andrii Pyatov, 13. Yukhym Konoplya, 14. Ihor Kharatin, 15. Viktor Tsyhankov, 16. Bohdan Mykhailichenko, 17. Oleksandr Zinchenko, 18. Valerii Bondar, 19. Oleksandr Zubkov, 20. Viktor Kovalenko, 21 Yevhen Makarenko, 22. Mykola Matviyenko, 23. Andrii Lunin.

Among those players who are currently in the camp of the national team, Shakhtar midfielder Taras Stepanenko and Vorskla goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk were not included in the application for today's game with Poland.

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