In the second friendly match, the Ukrainian beach soccer team was unable to take revenge in Japan

02.10.2022 10:05

Today, the Ukrainian beach soccer team played its second friendly match with the Japanese national team in Akasa. 

Yesterday, Mykola Kostenko's wards fought evenly in the first sparring session lost with a score of 2:4. Today, at the same Okura Beach Park in Akasa, the Japanese, who are the fourth team in the world ranking (Ukraine is in 17th place), started much more powerfully.   

Already in the 5th minute, the score was 3:0 in their favor. First, Ozu Moreira took advantage of a blunder by the Ukrainians in defense, then Takuya Akaguma shot into an empty net after a great combination, and finally, Morinori Okuyama realized the standard. To the credit of the blue-yellow team, they recovered after such a knockdown, and in the 8th minute, Dmytro Voytenko closed the wing pass, somewhat reducing the deficit to 1:3.   

In the second 12-minute period, the opponents played on counter-courses for a long time, but there were practically no sharp moments. However, in the 21st minute, Andrii Pashko successfully chose a position near the far post and managed to beat the hosts' keeper, reducing their advantage to one goal. 

At the beginning of the third period, our opponents succeeded in an exemplary combination, and Takuya Akaguma scored a double with a header. At the end of the match, the teams delighted the spectators in the stands, among whom there were many Ukrainians, with spectacular scissor goals. First, the same Akaguma scored a hat-trick, and then Dmytro Voytenko scored a double. The result of the match was scored by Tanaki Yesato, who rolled the ball into the empty goal of the blue-yellow team.

So, 3:6 is the second defeat of the Ukrainian national team.

Friendly match of national beach soccer teams

Japan — Ukraine — 6:3

Goals: Ozu Moreira (2), Akaguma (4, 27, 33), Okuyama (5), Yesato (34) — Voitenko (8, 33), Pashko (21).

Ukraine: Nerush, Kovalenko, Korniychuk, Voytok, Medvid, Voytenko, Zavorotny, Pashko, Levchenko, Verbytskyi, Borsuk, Shchytnyk.

Thus, the Ukrainian beach soccer team has completed an almost week-long training camp in Japan, which it held at the invitation of the local national soccer association, and is returning home.