Poland – Ukraine. The day before – football.ua

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Nov.11, 2020, 7 a.m.

Before the final streak in the Nations League group, the Ukraine team will face the Polish team in a test match.

Poland – Ukraine

Tuesday, November 11 9:45 p.m. Slaski, Chorzow. Manuel Schüttengruber (Austria) – main referee of the meeting. Broadcast on the television channels Football 1 and Ukraine.

The coaching staff of the Ukrainian team will long remember the previous position of the national teams. The Shakhtar footballers then took off from the main team unexpectedly and at the last minute. That is why Alexander Shovkovsky, who is part of Andriy Shevchenko’s coaching staff, had to be on the bench. Fortunately, the Kiev Dynamo legend didn’t have to go to the soccer field, so Alexander himself was incredibly happy.

There are not the best memories of the friendly against the French team. It was a nasty defeat that strongly affected the pride of both the coaches and the players of the team. After that, the Ukrainians managed to rally for the Nations League matches and show competitive football in duels against Germany and Spain. And if in the game with the Germans no points could be caught, then the game against Spain was won. Of course, not without luck. After all, Tsygankov took advantage of the only moment of the Ukrainian team in attack.

That experience should definitely help the national team coaching staff better tackle the upcoming fights. In a pandemic, the need for a tournament like the League of Nations, not to mention friendly matches, raises big questions overall. However, Ukraine will have to play against Poland. Now the “yellow-blues” again have not done without the players withdrawn due to the coronavirus. This time, the Dynamo players took over. At the last moment it emerged that Denis Popov also fell ill and could not help the national team. The Kiev central defender cannot make his debut for the national team, circumstances constantly interfere. Even his youngest defensive partner Zabarny has already made his debut. Added to all the sick Dynamo players are the injured Kravets and Tymchik. And in the Dynamo – Shakhtar match Viktor Kornienko was injured, who also had the opportunity to debut in the national team. But now his debut is forced to be postponed.

At the pre-match press conference, Andriy Shevchenko said that Ukraine will play with maximum fighting strength, but at the same time pointed out that his team has no base or reserve. Therefore, we should expect that some players, whom we are used to seeing more often than others, are in reserve. Most likely, the maximum number of substitutions allowed in the game will be made and a large number of players will receive playing practice.

Among the Poles, the local media announced that he would take care of Robert Lewandowski for official meetings. There are also other point losses.

Confrontation statistics

Total games: 7 (2 wins for Poland, 2 draws, 3 wins for Ukraine), goals scored 7: 8
In the countryside of Poland: 3 games (0 wins for Poland, 2 draws, 1 win for Ukraine), goals scored 3: 5
In the countryside of Ukraine: 4 games (2 wins for Poland, 0 draws, 2 wins for Ukraine), goals scored 4: 3
Most productive match: Ukraine won 3: 1 (2013), Poland won 3: 1 (2000)

Position in the FIFA national team rankings:

Poland – 18
Ukraine – 2. 3

1: 2 prognosis

Sergei Gorbachenko, Football.among others