The Ukraine national football team has once again lost players on the eve of the World Cup qualifying matches against Iceland and Azerbaijan. This is reported by 'Hlavkom' based on information from UAF.
Defender Oleksandr Tymchyk has left the team due to an injury sustained in a match for 'Dynamo'. Midfielder Viktor Tsygankov from 'Girona' will also be unable to help the team due to injury.
Ukraine national team composition
In the list of goalkeepers: Heorhii Bushchan, Anatolii Trubin, Dmytro Riznyk. Defenders: Illia Zabarnyi, Oleksandr Svatok, Valerii Bondar, Mykola Matviyenko, Yukhym Konoplia, Vitalii Mykolenko, Bohdan Mykhailichenko. Midfielders: Yehor Yarmoliuk, Ivan Kalyuzhny, Mykola Shaparenko, Volodymyr Brazhko, Nazar Voloshyn, and others. Forwards: Artem Dovbyk, Vladyslav Vanat.
The reserve list includes Ruslan Neshcheret, Oleksandr Pikhaliuk, Dmytro Kryskiv, Yevhen Cheberko, Maksym Talovierov. The national team's gathering in Poland has already started, and the matches against Iceland and Azerbaijan will take place in the coming days.
World Cup Qualifiers. Group D
In the previous match, the Ukraine national team drew with Azerbaijan with a score of 1:1. Goals were scored by Makmudov and Sudakov.
Earlier, the national team suffered a defeat against France with a score of 0:2 in the qualifying match for the 2026 World Cup. The match took place in Wroclaw, Poland. During the game, Ukrainian fans supported the team and raised a huge banner reading 'Fortress of Europe'.
The Ukraine national football team has once again been impacted by the loss of players ahead of matches against Iceland and Azerbaijan. The team roster has already been determined, and the players are preparing for the upcoming qualifiers for the World Cup.