Selection of Euro-2024. In Wroclaw, the national team of Ukraine played a draw with the leader of the group - the team of England

09.09.2023 20:54

Photo by Pavlo Kubanov

Today, 9 SeptemberThe national team of Ukraine, within the framework of the qualification for Euro-2024, played a match in Polish Wroclaw against the England team. Despite the fact that the blue-and-yellow team was not playing at home, the support of the stands at "Tarchinsky-Arena" was impressive.

It is worth saying that the day before the Ukrainians faced personnel problems. Yarmolenko did not fully recover, Shaparenko left the national team due to an injury, Tymchyk, Zubkov and Pikhalyonok also did not make it to the application for today's game. However, Serhii Rebrov's team prepared well for the meeting with the group's favorite, who has not lost points so far, and gave him a real fight.

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The English took the ball into their hands from the beginning of the meeting, played wide, but the defense of the Ukrainian national team restrained the pressure. Over time, our boys began to boldly cross the center of the field and managed to catch the opponents on a mistake. At the 26th minute, Tsygankov - Konoplia - Zinchenko made a three-way play that ended with Pickford scoring. By the way, this is the first goal of the Ukrainian national team in matches against England since 2012.

After that, Serhiy Rebrov's wards focused on defense. They did it well, and England's attacking players did not succeed in everything. However, the captain came to the aid of the islanders - in the 41st minute, Kane sent a cool diagonal from deep to Walker, who broke away from Mykolenko and equalized the score.

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After the break, the English regained the initiative, while the Ukrainians could only count on counterattacks. Gareth Southgate's wards were actively hitting the goal. The most dangerous was Sak's shot, which Bushchan converted into the crossbar. Later, George neutralized Maguire's attempt after a corner.

In the future, the blue-yellow team managed to calm down the game, although the opponents continued to threaten Bushan's goal. The Ukrainians managed to hold out in the last minutes and took points away from the group leader — 1:1.

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Now our national team has another Euro-2024 qualification match waiting for it - on September 12 at Milan's "San Siro" against Italy (start - at 21.45:XNUMX p.m. Kyiv time).

Euro-2024. Qualifying tournament. Group C

5 round

Ukraine - England — 1:1 - 1:1

Goalи: Zinchenko (26) — Walker (41).

Ukraine: Bushchan, Konoplia, Zabarny, Matvienko (Kryvtsov, 46), Mykolenko, Tsygankov, Stepanenko (k), Zinchenko (Buyalskyi, 76), Mudryk (Nazarina, 90), Sudakov (Sydorchuk, 65), Yaremchuk (Dovbyk, 65).

Substitutions: Trubin, Lunin, Mykhailichenko, Yarmolenko, Vanat, Popov, Karavaev.

Trainer: Sergey Rebrov.

England: Pickford, Walker, Gehey, Maguire, Chilwell, Maddison (Foden, 65), Rice, Henderson, Saka (Gallagher, 86), Kane (c), Bellingham (Rashford, 65).

Substitutions: Johnston, Ramsdale, Trippier, Colville, Tomori, Phillips, Dunk, Eze, Wilson.

Trainer: Gareth Southgate.

Referee: Georgy Kabakov (Bulgaria).

Booked: Stepanenko (22), Yaremchuk (43) — Maddison (35), Maguire (86).

September 9. Wroclaw. Stadium "Tarchinsky Arena".

North Macedonia - Italy (21.45)

Standings

6 round

12.09.2023

Italy - Ukraine (21.45)

Malta — North Macedonia (21.45)