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The Ukrainian team played beyond all praise in the last Nations League draw, confidently winning the group with the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Yes, there was a 1: 4 loss to the Slovaks, but who was interested in that? By this time, all of our tournament tasks had already been solved.
Ukraine – Switzerland
Lviv, September 3, 21:45. League of Nations, 1st round. Chief Referee – Andreas Ekberg (Sweden). Live broadcast on Football 1 and Ukraine TV channels.
Now, Andriy Shevchenko’s team will play in the elite division of the Nations League in a group with Switzerland, Spain and Germany. The popularity of the opinion “Germany and Spain are giants, but Switzerland must be defeated” is somewhat surprising. And almost one left.
But in the flight of your expectations, you must pause and realize that Switzerland is a strong middle peasant in world football, not only occupying the 12th line in the FIFA rankings. The same place where Ukraine ranks 24th.
And if “Schweizer Nati” still plays, then … The Belgian team can say the best. Before the fourth round of the last Nations League, the “red devils” led the group, ahead of Switzerland by 3 points. In the 17th minute, Belgium was already leading 2: 0. It seems that the trick is in the bag. But then Switzerland turned and went ahead through the break, and in the end, they won 5: 2. It was the Swiss who then played in the quarterfinals of the Nations League.
In the selection for Euro 2020, Vladimir Petkovich’s team confirmed their status as Group D favorites, taking first place in the fight against Denmark, Ireland, Georgia and Gibraltar.
To our great regret, the Lviv match will take place in closed stands. Everything is to blame for the coronavirus pandemic. It will be possible to watch the game on television on the Football 1 channel, or follow the progress of the game in a text broadcast from Football.ua.
It should be noted that Liverpool midfielder Djerdan Shaqiri was not included in the application of the Swiss team. Of the Basel players who recently played for Shakhtar, there is only one person: defender Silvan Widmer (if someone tells you about goalkeeper Jonas Omlin, don’t believe it), while the “red-blues” played for Shakhtar, he was healing his injury and was busy with the transition to Montpellier).
In Shaqiri, the Swiss problems do not end there. Remo Freuler (Atalanta), Dennis Zakaria (Borussia M), Fabian Cher (Newcastle) – all of them cannot play due to injuries. Our old friend Admir Mehmedi just didn’t get the call this time.
As for the Ukrainian national team, Andriy Shevchenko appointed an expanded team, which was later joined by Anderlecht defender Bohdan Mikhailichenko.
One of the intrigues is in what state the players of the national teams will approach this match: for some the championship is already in full swing, for some it has not yet started, some are playing practically without holidays …
Coaches say:
Vladimir Petkovic, coach of the Swiss national team: “Ukraine has been preparing since last week, which means that they take the games very seriously and want to show themselves well. It is important for us now to focus on ourselves.”
In the short term, our goal is to win every game, in the long term, to perform at our best in tournaments. It’s good to be in the finals of the Nations League, but this time it will be even more difficult. “
Andriy Shevchenko, coach of the Ukraine national teams: “I have no worries. I know it is always difficult to enter when the team has not seen each other for a long time. However, we have a serious group and good rivals. We have excellent motivation, we have no tasks. The only task is to perform well.” .
Maybe we will give the players who played less a chance to prove themselves, let’s see if they are ready. We will play with the squad, we have the Euro Cup next year, the selection for the world championship begins. These Nations League matches will be very important to determine in the future who will have the opportunity to go to the Eurocup and play qualifying. “
Approximate compositions:
Predicting the teams of the national teams after the team has not met for a year is extremely thankless, especially when the coach talks about the intention to give new players a chance, but nevertheless we will try to predict who will be released by Andriy Shevchenko and Vladimir Petkovich.
There are many questions about the composition of the Ukrainian team. For example, who will play in the goal frame? Suppose it will be Andrei Lunin, and his namesake Pyatov will have a chance to rest after a difficult season.
On the right flank of the defense we are waiting for Sergei Bolbat, whom Andriy Shevchenko called the best player on this mini training camp. A pair of defenders is not the best place to experiment, so Sergey Krivtsov and Nikolai Matvienko will probably play. Vitaliy Mikolenko was unconditionally the team’s main left-back in the European Championship, but missed the start of the season at the Dynamo through injury. The question is, has he made a full recovery? Bogdan Mikhailichenko, who started the season well at Anderlecht, can be expected to make his debut here.
With a triangle of central midfielders, there may also be options like Igor Kharatin’s debut, but let’s say Andriy Shevchenko still relies on the classic option: Taras Stepanenko – Alexander Zinchenko – Ruslan Malinovsky.
Marlos, Andrey compete for a place on the right wing of the attack 
Yarmolenko and Viktor Tsygankov. Suppose the Shakhtar footballer will rest, but in the case of the Dynamo player, doubts arise about his physical condition. Hence, Yarmolenko.
The situation is more complicated on the left flank. In fact, apart from Evgeny Konoplyanka, we don’t have a single player who plays in this position all the time. Unfortunately, there are big questions about Konoplyanka’s form, so it is possible that Roman Yaremchuk, who already had a similar experience in the national team, plays in this position.
In this case, Junior Moraes or Vladislav Supriagu can be expected in the vacant position. Suppose the coaching staff will give preference to the high-speed Dynamo, who will be called upon to flee from the Swiss after the Zinchenko and Malinovsky pitches. How everything will actually turn out, we will know at night.
Predicting the composition of the Swiss, as you know, is no easier, given the number of injuries, the semi-friendly nature of the fight and the almost a year hiatus between games.
Later it became known that “the best player of the mini training camp” Sergei Bolbat was not included in the application for the match. Oleksandr Tymchik or Oleksandr Karavaev of the Dynamo can play on the right in defense. Furthermore, Valery Bondar, Roman Bezus and Evgeny Makarenko were not included in the application, and Nikolai Shaparenko left the team location due to injury.
1: 3 forecastEvgeniy Muzyka, Football.ua
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