Ireland keeps up the pressure, but the ball is controlled by the Ukrainians. Little by little the visit begins to advance meters in search of generating damage to the rival goal.
These are the players who will start off the bench for both teams: Ireland: Travers, Talbot, Hourihane, Keane, Parrott, McClean, Browne, Molumby, O'Shea, Obafemi, Hamilton and Festy. Ukraine: Karavaev, Ignatenko, Pikhalyonok, Zinchenko, Tsygankov, Pyatov, Malviyenko, Malinovskyi, Sobol, Sikan, Piznky, and Zabarnyi.
The arbitration designation for this match is as follows:
Center Referee: Filip Glova
Assistants: Daniel Polacek and Adam Jekke
4th Referee: Michal Ocenáš
This will be the first official match between both European teams, so we will see who is capable of playing better. Ukraine start as the heavy favorites for this game, but an Ireland victory would not be a surprise.
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The Ukrainian midfielder is one of the team's great references, he belongs to West Ham United of the first division of England. Yarmolenko is one of the figures of Ukrainian football and seeks to remain one of the fundamental pieces of the midfield so that his team seeks to obtain important results against high-quality rivals and begin to become an uncomfortable team within UEFA. In the tie, he made 6 assists and a couple of goals so that his team will finish in second place in Group D of the tie for Qatar 2022 and will qualify for the playoffs.
The Ukrainian national team begins a new football process after being left out of the process towards Qatar 2022 in the last round of the European qualifiers. Although the spirits are not the best, the team will have to put the defeat against Wales behind them and begin to envision a bright future and, with the new FIFA format, the possibility of qualifying for the 2026 World Cup. Ukraine starts as one of the teams favorites to advance from the round in group E together with Ireland, which is why this first duel between the favorites will be of the utmost importance for the aspirations to advance to the next round. Now, the mission is to qualify for EURO 2024 and continue to demonstrate the team's potential ahead of the upcoming qualifiers for the Canada-United States-Mexico 2026 World Cup.
The Tottenham striker has become one of the great leaders of the Irish representative and was a starter in all the matches in the process towards the 2022 Qatar World Cup. Now, after having run out of any chance, Parrott is running to be one of the top The Greens need a reference up front and his contribution will be very important for the future and the search for a ticket to the 2026 World Cup. Troy Parrott was the top assister in the Qatar 2022 qualifier with 6 goal assists.
The Irish come to this duel after being left without a ticket to the Qatar 2022 World Cup in the first round of the European qualifiers by finishing in third place in Group A, behind Portugal and Serbia. With the new process ahead of the 2026 World Cup to be held in North America, Ireland will seek to continue growing in order to have a chance of qualifying for a World Cup. For this, the Greens will seek to fight to get to EURO 2024 to show that the team is growing and measure its progress towards 2026. The Irish are one of the favorite teams to advance to the round and the duel against Ukraine should be very important to get points for the next round.
The Aviva Stadium located in the city of Dublina will host this second date of the UEFA Nations League of group E. This stadium has a capacity for 51,700 fans and was inaugurated in 2010.
Good day to all VAVEL readers! Welcome to the broadcast of the match Ireland vs Ukraine live, corresponding to the duel of date 2 of Group E of the UEFA Nations League 2022-2023. The match will take place at the Aviva Stadium, at 2:45 p.m.
