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Yesterday gave the football world not only the crazy pogroms of Manchester United and Liverpool in the English Premier League, as well as the scandal surrounding the Juventus-Napoli match in Italian Serie A, but also the news of the coronavirus between two players from the Shakhtar. “.
For this reason, the Donetsk club announced that it would leave for self-isolation, and soon the Ukrainian Football Association confirmed that representatives of the Pitmen would not arrive at the location of the national team. So far, however, we are talking exclusively about the next friendly match against France, which is scheduled for Wednesday, October 7. However, who knows what the development of events will be in the current situation …
The blue and yellow coaching staff headed by Andriy Shevchenko already immediately summoned Oleksandriya goalkeeper Yuri Pankiv and Dynamo midfielder Vladimir Shepelev to the team location, but it is unlikely that they will be able to compensate for the personnel crisis at the team caused by the absence of nine players at a time. Shakhtar.
How will the Ukrainian team be without the Pitmen in the next friendly against the French? Let’s measure along the lines …
Goalkeeper
Andriy Pyatov, 36, who was confirmed yesterday that he had a coronavirus, is the unconditional number one at the gates of the Ukrainian team. The veteran also played both games of the new Nations League, against Switzerland and Spain. However, now it is clear that the blue-yellow will have to bet on a different goalkeeper.
Shevchenko’s cage includes Georgy Buschan of the Dynamo, Andriy Lunin of Real Madrid and Yuri Pankiv of Oleksandriya. In today’s realities, the most objective would be to entrust Buschan with a place in the national team’s goal. He appears regularly on the field with the Dynamo, in contrast to Lunin, who, although he remains at Real, still has the opportunity to prove himself only in training. And compared to the DIY Pankiv, the Dynamo goalkeeper has a number of whists, ranging from more experience in serious matches and ending with a better understanding of the teammates, because in the absence of the Pitmen, there will be many plenipotentiaries of the Dynamo in the defense of the national team. In the end, Buschan deserved to play the first match for the Ukrainian team at least with his phenomenal play in the Champions League qualifying second leg against Ghent, when he made a record number of career saves in one match: only 14.
Protection
Initially there were three plenipotentiaries of the Shakhtar here: Serhiy Kryvtsov, Mykola Matvienko and Serhiy Bolbat. And if the latter already had the status of only a rotation footballer, then the first two against the Swiss and the Spanish formed a pair of team centers, so Shevchenko will have to radically change the content of this line.
Considering the “blue-yellow” players available, the coaching staff will not have many options. On the right, it seems, will play Karavaev, who really has no choice, because Bolbat will not come to the team, and Tymchik, who played in the previous two fights and left a generally positive impression of himself, is now recovering from a strain. muscle that he received in the match of the second round of the Premier League against “Cena”. Of course, there is also a rookie Efim Konoplya, but his appearance against France is only possible in an emergency; in fact, by the way sure, he was called to the team.
On the left, Shevchenko has a few more options: Brugge’s Sobol, Anderlecht’s Mikhaylichenko and Dynamo’s Mikolenko. The latter, very likely, as in the club, will be involved in the center, and that is why we are considering exclusively the first two. Despite the fact that Mikhailichenko played for Switzerland and Spain, the most logical thing would be to entrust the place on the field to Sobol for the match against France. Eduard started the season well: after 8 rounds, his “Bruges” is in the cohort of the leaders of the Belgian championship, and the defender himself had 7 matches.
In the last round, in particular, Club Brugge crushed Anderlecht with Mikhailichenko in the team (3: 0), and Sobol took an active part in this. On Edward’s account, the statistics recorded 4 shots on goal at once, 5 hits (60% – successful), 31 individual bouts (68% – won), 4 runs with the ball, as well as 4 steals and 17 tackles. Mikhailichenko’s indicators turned out to be much more modest and therefore I would like to refresh Sobol’s game with the French, especially since he last played for the national team in November last year in sparring with Estonia (1: 0 ).
Now there are four options in the central axis of the defense: considering Mykolenko transferred there, these are Plastun, Cheberko and Zabarny. Most likely, Mikolenko and Plastun are the ones who form a couple. The former simply seems more confident now than the others, and the choice in favor of the latter in this case is explained by his greater adaptability to play the position of the central right. Although Plastun is now far from the standard of reliability, which we had the opportunity to observe in the matches between Dynamo and Gent in the Champions League qualifying …
Midfield
Four fell here at once: Konoplyanka, Stepanenko, Kovalenko and Marlos. Losses, of course, are important, but they shouldn’t be fatal to the national team. On the defensive, for example, the absence of Krivtsov and Matvienko seems very scary.
In the games against Switzerland and Spain, Stepanenko, Konoplyanka and Marlos appeared on the field of this quartet of the Pitmen, but none of them, with the exception of Taras, proved to be the undisputed leader of the team. Due to health problems, Stepanenko was unable to play against the Spanish, which made it much more difficult for the national team, but now it seems that Shevchenko has an equivalent replacement for Taras. This is Sergei Sidorchuk, who at the Dynamo was almost at the top of his form.
In particular, in the first match of the Champions League qualifier against Gent, Sidorchuk proved that he is responsible in the current Dynamo for the backbone role on the field. In the Belgian game, Sergei distinguished himself with 148 technical and tactical actions and 124 passes, which became for him indicators of personal record in his career at least during the last 5 years of statistical observations. At the same time, it is worth noting the high precision of the passes (94%), the quality of the individual bouts (80% won) and the active work in the attack – Sidorchuk had 3 runs with the ball and 3 passes under attack, although on average for each of these components the figure is not more than 1 per party.
Shevchenko’s troubles will be added to Alexander Zinchenko’s absence from the team. You are now healing the adductor muscle damage, so you will definitely miss the next few fights. Fortunately, Nikolay Shaparenko, who will likely play in Zinchenko’s position on the left in midfield, has gotten into shape at the Dynamo with Lucescu and is showing himself successfully, while Ruslan Malinovsky will be as usual on the side. law.
Let us now turn to the question of extremes. If on the right there is a choice of Yarmolenko and Tsygankov, on the left – in the absence of Konoplyanka, there is a problem. Of course, Yaremchuk could be counted on in this position, but given the ambiguity of the situation around Supryaga, it is most likely that Shevchenko will release Gent’s player in the center of the attack, but Tsygankov will have to take up the position. left, leaving Yarmolenko on his usual right flank. … Which is true, purely from a game point of view, both Victor and Andrey are not in the best of shape right now. The West Ham midfielder, for example, was literally harassed for his League Cup performance against Everton.
It is true that there is still the possibility of passing to the left or towards the spearhead of the attack by Alexander Zubkov, who was summoned a little earlier from Ferencvaros, but such a measure will also be forced, as the right flank remains a priority position. for this player.
Attack
If Supryaga isn’t going to the national team yet, Shevchenko simply doesn’t have a choice. Junior Moraes is still unable to reach the blue-yellow camp and therefore Roman Yaremchuk will play. The beginning of the season was not the best for him due to the ambiguous situation in Ghent, where the frequent change of coaches led to a complete failure at the beginning of the season. And the rumors that Yaremchuk almost demanded a transfer to another club will probably, from a purely psychological point of view, have a negative effect on our legionnaire.
However, something more pleases: before joining the national team, Yaremchuk played the championship game for Gent excellently against Beershot (5: 1), scoring a double.
Get out
As you can see, the personnel position the Ukrainian team is in now, if not a stalemate, is very close to that. Even a call from Pankiv and Shepelev is in no way capable of substantially covering the player deficit caused by the absence of Shakhtar representatives. And if the majority of the Pitmen (with the exception of Pyatov and Stepanenko), after one more test, will still be able to join the Blue-Yellows before the Nations League matches against Germany and Spain, then it will be much easier. for Shevchenko and his team to solve the problems. Otherwise … Otherwise, you will definitely have to call someone else so as not to be on the verge of a complete staff shortage, because the team’s game schedule is now incredibly intense and tense …
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