Ukraine close to World Cup qualification

Choosing to wear yellow and blue is just 90 minutes away from getting their World Cup ticket, but to get there they will have to beat Wales in Cardiff on Sunday.

From what we saw in Glasgow, there are reasons to believe this, as the Ukrainians are superior to the Scots, who generally missed out on this big meeting, despite a goal that resurfaced with them in 10 minutes from in the end.

Emotions were already felt in pre-match press conferences on Tuesday, as were the tears of defender Oleksandr Zinchenko.

Everyone knows the current situation in Ukraine. Every game for us seems final, but we have this dream, as a team, to get to the World Cup. There is only one game left, another final, and we have to win. You need to enter [cette occasion] otherwise this battle will be uselesssaid the Manchester City color holder into the Sky Sports microphone.

Before the initial whistle, the Ukrainian anthem set the tone. Wrapped in the flag of their country, the players, accompanied by many supporters, many of whom were waving flags or signs calling for peace, wholeheartedly sang.

But once the kick-off was given, Oleksandr Petrakov’s players were still leading the fight, while their opponents seemed paralyzed by the challenge.

” I had no emotions, all my emotions remained on the pitch. This victory was not for me or for the team members, it was for our country, so it was a huge success. It was a great collective effort. They gave everything for the people they played with, the Ukrainians, for the people watching them at home. “

The armed forces, in the trenches or in the hospital, they say thank you to us, but we also say thank you to them. We played for the fighters in the trenches until the last drop of their blood. We played for Ukrainians who suffer every day. We have taken very small steps towards our goal. There is still Wales on our way. We will do everything to make Ukrainians proud. My team and I are proud to be UkrainiansHe added.

After some heroic saves from Craig Gordon, the Ukrainians logically opened the scoring through Andriy Yarmolenko, who went to the offside limit.

The striker who left West Ham a few days ago perfectly controlled the ball at the entrance to the area and beautifully dosed his lob above the goalkeeper in the 33rd minute.

After half-time, we waited for the reaction of the locals who vowed not to be silenced in their sympathy for the situation of their hosts.

But the Ukrainians took home the point, Roman Yaremchuk deftly heading in a cross to double the lead in the 49th minute.

The Scots ended up rebelling, but too clumsily. Inexplicably John McGinn missed the target with a six-yard header, before seeing his recovery counteracted, after the first strike from Che Adams was driven away by Georgi Bushchan, in the 76th.

Both Bushchan were not free from reproach by a weak hand on strike from Conor McGregor, in the 79th, which revived the hopes of the Scots at one time.

But the desperate attacks of Ukrainians on the net at the last minute were very chaotic and remained generally safe.

Ukraine came into the game faster than us, it took the whole game. We thought they would get tired eventually, and they would get tired too, but we tortured ourselves. We didn’t play the way we expected, that was the most frustrating. Now it’s done for us, and then a campaign [de qualification] very positive, we shot in the foot. We need to take it and thinkdefender Andy Robertson told Sky Sports.

After poor negotiations with some promising counterattacks, the Ukrainians delivered a deadly blow thanks to Artem Dovbyk, who went to the offside limit to close the mark at stoppage time.

The wait for the Scots will continue for at least four years, those who have not participated in the World Cup since 1998.

In the midst of the war against the Russian occupiers, the Ukrainians on their part offered themselves a new little glimmer of hope and dreams, within four days, in Cardiff.