The first half of the match is over.
The national team of Ukraine in the framework of the selection for the European Championship 2024 in Wembley met with England.
For a long time, Ruslan Rotan’s team did not allow the British to deliver accurate shots on goal, they played perfectly on the offside line, although the team of “three lions” often pressed the goal of Anatoly Trubin .
But everything changed at the end of the first half, when Harry Kane initially beat Alexander Karavaev in a positional struggle and scored after Bukayo Saka’s serve. And a few minutes later, Saka scored himself, slotting in from distance exactly at the end of the nine.
At the same time, in the first half, the Ukrainians themselves had almost no chance to score against Jordan Pickford.
The second half became a kind of training with a special responsibility for the British. Team Gareth Southgate continued to attack and play in the first number that rarely allowed the Ukrainians to “play with the ball.”
The British themselves attacked a lot, and at the end of the match they generally had cool moments to break Anatoly Trubin at least once more. But Anatoly himself was at his best, and the British were far from accurate.
England – Ukraine Euro 2024 qualifier match statistics
- Expected Goals (xG): 2.21 – 0.14
- Ball possession: 59% – 41%
- Shots on goal: 16 – 2
- shots on target: 7 – 0
England — Ukraine 2:0
the objectives: Kane, 37, Saka, 40
England: Pickford – Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell – Bellingham (Gallagher, 86), Henderson, Rice – Saka, Kane (Tawney, 81), Maddison (Grealish, 85).
Ukraine: Trubin – Karavaev (Buyalsky, 61), Svatok, Matvienko, Mikolenko (Sobol, 62) – Stepanenko (Konoplyanka, 90), Zinchenko – Sudakov, Malinovsky, Mudrik (Tsygankov, 61) – Yaremchuk
(Dovbyk, 74).
Warning: Malinovsky
Source: korrespondent
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