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Football.ua remembers previous matches between Ukraine and Switzerland.
The Ukraine team is preparing to start in the new Nations League draw. Andriy Shevchenko’s team will play Germany and Spain, and will begin their journey to the tournament with a home match against Switzerland. Football.ua suggests recalling previous team meetings.
Previously, Ukraine and Switzerland met only twice, but one of these encounters became legendary for the Ukrainian team and forever entered their history.
2006 World Cup, round of 16. 26 June 2006 years old. Suburb, Rhine Power. 45,000 public.
Switzerland – Ukraine 0: 0 (penalty shootout 0: 3)
Switzerland: Zuberbühler – Degen, Müller, Jura (Grichting, 34), Magnin – Vogel – Barnett, Vikki – Cabanas – H. Yakin (Streller, 64), Fry (Lustrinelli, 117).
Coach: Jacob Kuhn.
Ukraine: Shovkovsky – Gusev, Vashchuk, Gusin, Nesmachny – Timoshchuk, Shelaev – Vorobey (Rebrov, 94), Kalinichenko (Rotan, 75) – Voronin (Milevsky, 111), Shevchenko.
Coach: Oleg Blokhin.
Warning: Barnetta.
The first meeting of the teams took place within the knockout stages of the 2006 World Cup. Ukraine then participated in the first world championship for itself and a large tournament in general. Having started the tournament with a fiasco in the match with Spain, the ‘blue-yellows’ corrected themselves and, thanks to victories over Saudi Arabia and Tunisia, advanced to the playoffs, where Switzerland awaited them, unexpectedly winning their group.
The fight turned out, to put it mildly, unspectacular. Both teams were more afraid of losing and decided to exercise extreme caution, creating around a dozen dangerous moments for the entire fight, including overtime. However, the main thing for the Ukrainian team was that they did not fail and reached the penalty shootout, where they had a trump card in the person of Alexander Shovkovsky.
The first to get to the point was the current coach of the national team, Andriy Shevchenko, but he did not notice the blow. Shovkovskiy came to the aid of the team, which parried all three of the Swiss’s blows and became a true fighting hero. Oleg Gusev put an end to the penalty shoot-out and throughout the match.
Ukraine reached the quarterfinals, where they lost without much chance to Italy, who later won the world title.
Friendly match. November 17, 2010. Geneva, Stud of Geneva. 11 100 public.
Switzerland – Ukraine 2: 2
Goals: Fry (40, 62) – Yarmolenko, 48, Konoplyanka, 75.
Switzerland: Wolffy – Lichtsteiner (Von Berger, 72), Juru, Affolter, Ziegler – Barnetta (Shakiri, 46), Inler (Fernandez, 46) – Schwegler (Costanzo, 66), Stocker (Degen, 85) – H. Yakin, Fry Ben Khalifa, 76).
Coach: Ottmar Hitzfeld.
Ukraine: Pyatov – Fedetsky, Chigrinsky, Rakitsky, Mandzyuk – Mikhalik (Stepanenko, 65), Timoshchuk – Yarmolenko (Oleynik, 74), Aliyev, Konoplyanka (Morozyuk, 87) – Devich (Milevsky, 46).
Coach: Yuri Kalitvintsev.
Warnings: Barnetta: Timoshchuk, Mikhalik, Aliyev.
The second and last meeting between Switzerland and Ukraine took place in 2010, when the teams ended the year of play with a friendly match in Geneva. The Ukrainian team was preparing for the European championship at home, but went to the match with temporary mentor Yuri Kalitvintsev, who replaced Miron Markevich. The lack of a permanent coach was felt, because Ukraine acted in an extremely disorganized way and allowed to create dangerous moments.
At the end of the first half, Alexander Fry opened the scoring with a spectacular free-kick. But already a few minutes after the start of the second half, Ukraine recovered when Alexander Aliyev launched a free kick and the ball from Andrey Yarmolenko’s back flew towards the goal. Fry put the hosts ahead again, but the ‘blue-yellows’ responded to these magnificent shots from Evgeny Konoplyanka in the nine. As a result, with a rather lazy game and an opponent’s advantage, Ukraine was able to achieve a good result on its own.
Therefore, both matches between Ukraine and Switzerland ended in a draw, but in the only official match the Ukrainian team still celebrated the success. Furthermore, the “blue-yellows” may well regard the Swiss as a convenient and successful rival for them.
The Ukraine – Switzerland match in the opening round of the Nations League will take place in Lviv on Thursday 3 September and will start at 21:45.
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