The meeting starts in La Spezia at 19:15
Head coach Ukrainian national team U-21 Unai Melgosa announced the squad for the test match with the youth team Italy.
Ruslan Nesheret will play in goal. Also on the field from the first minutes will be striker Bogdan Vyunnik and defender Denis Kuzyk. Arseniy Batagov will be the captain of the youth team in sparring.
Ukraine U-21 national team: Neshcheret, Krupsky, Kozik, Batagov, Kuzyk, Varfolomeev, Yatsyk, Fedor, Kvasnitsa, Bragaru, Vyunnik.
Spares: Ermakov, Pakholyuk, Ogarkov, Roman, Khlan, Krasnopir, Gusev, Melnichenko, Gorbach, Veleten, Tsarenko.
A friendly match between the youth teams of Italy and Ukraine will take place in La Spezia at the Alberto Picco stadium. The meeting starts at 19:15.
Previously, Melgosa’s team had a sparring match with Portugal (3:3). For the blue-yellow team, Batagov scored a double, and Maxim Khlan scored another goal.
Let us remind you that the Ukrainian U-21 team confidently passed the qualification for Euro 2025. She won eight starting matches, after which in October she made two misfires against England (1:2) and Serbia (0:1). The final tournament of the Youth Euro 2025 will take place from June 12 to July 5, 2025 in Slovakia.
Source: Sportarena

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