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Tuesday, November 17, 2020, turned out to be extremely bumpy for the soccer community of our country. On this day, we intended to watch the matches of two age categories of Ukrainian footballers at the same time, but the COVID-19 coronavirus dealt a crushing blow to the ambitions to play the Ukraine national team match against Switzerland in time. . However, even the recorded cases of the disease could not be canceled at home by the youth team against their Northern Ireland teammates. Ruslan Rotan’s team went to their last match in a failed qualification for the 2021 European Championship.
The Kiev region was that night under the influence of heavy snowfall. Kovalevka also suffered from the weather, and the new Kolos stadium had to pass the snow test for the first time. The agronomists tried, but nature proved to be more persistent: the volume of snow that is regularly replenished seriously influenced the behavior of the players on the field throughout the game.
But Rotan’s team, even in such difficult conditions, tried to play a small pass, while the opponents abandoned this adventure at the end of the first quarter of the game hour, switching exclusively to horse passes to the penalty area. The game looked like fragments, and its sequence was similar to the position of the team names on the scoreboard. Ukraine fired three dangerous moments in the 23rd minute, however the rivals’ goalkeeper did not allow Kuharevich to score twice, and once again Muns ran under attack from Lviv striker “Rukh” from close range.
The guests only had one serious attack: Trubin had two consecutive blows before going to a break, which the rivals inflicted after a corner from the right flank. Our goalkeeper easily faced the threats and did not let the head referee escape in a counterattack, he did not want to be on the field for another second. And you can understand it! The Northern Irishmen simply ran headlong into the halls below the stands.
Our team entered the second half with too much force, so most of the time before the end of the full hour of the match, the rivals had the initiative in the attack, and even noticed an accidental blow to the left post of our goal during a service from the right flank cut from the foot by Lavery. It was the only moment in the entire match when it was safe to say that goalkeeper Trubin made a mistake in the episode.
However, the six-minute percussion, starting from the 68th revolution of the second hand, allowed Ukraine to win with a significant score on the scoreboard. The scenario of the invited duel against Romania was repeated, but this time it was not our team that allowed it.
Baboglo was the first to complete a corner kick from the left wing with a header on the fall, after which the opponents collapsed. Another canopy from Stetskov on the same side of the field – in the jump down the other side, Isaenko completes, and after two minutes Kukharevich took advantage of the blurry actions of the goalkeeper, who panicked after a missed pass back from a teammate from the left flank, and sent the ball into the net from an empty goal with a shot from outside the penalty area. And everything would go well, only that with the same style you had to play in the first match in the opposite field.
At the time of the three-time whistle of the main referee for this match, Rauf Dzhabarov, the path of the Ukrainian youth team to the 2021 European Championship, which will be played in Hungary and Slovenia, was officially completed. Unfortunately, under the leadership of Ruslan Rotan, the winners of the 2019 World Cup in Poland were unable to realize their potential the first time around, but their path into “adult” football is just beginning. We look forward to the next attempts.
European Under-21 Championship. Qualification. Group stage. Group H. 10th round.
Ukraine U21 – Northern Ireland U21 – 3: 0
Baboglo, 68, Isaenko, 70, Kukharevich, 74
Baboglo, 7, Brazhko, 41, Stetskov, 53 – Toul, 31, Boyd-Muns, 57, Bansal-McNolti, 86, McCalmont, 89
Ukraine U21: Trubin – Dubinchak (D. Kravchuk, 78), Snurnitsyn, Baboglo, Yakimets – Vantukh, Brazhko (Biloshevsky, 87), Yarmolyuk (Mikhailenko, 90) – Isaenko, Shevtsov (Stetskov, 46), Kukharevich (A. Kravchuk, 87) .
Northern Ireland U21: Webber: Amos, Brown, Toal, Merron: Bansal-McNalty, Boyd Muns, McCalmont, Ham: O’Neill, Lavery.
Referee: Rauf Jabarov (Azerbaijan).
Stadium: “Kolos” (Kovalevka village).
Shots (on target): 10 (5) – 5 (2)
Corners: 4-7
Offside: 3-5.
UKRAINE U-21-NORTHERN IRELAND U-21. ONLINE BROADCAST OF THE MATCH
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