The Match Iceland - Ukraine.2018 FIFA World Cup Russia.Qualification

Iceland – Ukraine. Announcement

Iceland – Ukraine

5 September, 21:45, Reykjavik, "laugardalsvellur"

Referee: William kollum (Scotland)

Are you still in the euphoria of the victory over the Turkish national team led by Mircea Lucescu? Glad – enough is enough! Ahead of us is a much more serious contender. Without belittling the accomplishments of our team, yet Iceland at the level of the game is not dismantled Turkey with a new coach who conducted the first match in charge of the new team.

After a personnel reshuffle from the Turks – have the stability of Iceland. Play against the quarter-finalists Euro 2016, which insignificantly altered the composition over the year, and if you take qualifying for the 2018 world Cup, the composition of Icelanders is possible to predict for every match at least 90% if not completely.

The good news is, in addition, that the Ukrainian team seems to be in great shape – in the last round Iceland national team lost to Finland (0:1), where we recently celebrated a deserved victory.

The bad news is that before the match with Ukraine team Hamira of Hallgrimsson had a 100% result at home, beating including the national team of Croatia (1:0).

Forgive for banality – will be very hard. Especially with the fact that Andriy Shevchenko has set the task to produce in Reykjavik win. Though actually – the main thing not to lose. Then we will continue to stay ahead of Iceland and hold the fate of a group including in its hands.

Group I. Standings

The Ukrainian team arrived in Iceland two days before the match, moving the 6.5-hour flight from Kharkov (record distance for "blue-yellow" in official matches).

In Reykjavik these days the weather is rainy, and the forecast for the match day makes you be prepared for precipitation and wet field.

The home team one personnel loss, but not significant. In the match with Finland unsuccessfully entered the game Rurik Gislason and a few minutes received two yellow cards.
All team leaders in the ranks, including captain Aron Gunnarsson is also the most expensive Icelander Gylfie Sigurdsson, the transfer of which 45 million pounds to Everton was constantly remembered before the game Andriy Shevchenko as evidence of the current level of Icelandic football.

We can oppose the "Ukrainian Sigurdsson" – 25 million Andriy Yarmolenko enchanting had a game with the Turks and made a double. Not to mention Yevhen Konoplyanka, who has played no less impressive against Turkey and, according to many, has no less arguments to be named player of the match.

Words

Hallgrímsson:

– First of all, I want to say that all players are healthy and ready to fight with Ukraine. We often said that our team all are considered the main players. We are not afraid to make personnel changes. We observe the training process, draw conclusions and communicate together. No secrets we have from them.

Andriy Shevchenko:

We studied not only the match Finland – Iceland, but the Icelanders home matches against Croatia and Turkey. The emphasis will do on what we need to do for them standards. They are very good at free kicks, corner. Therefore, our task to take the standards and control the ball, and through good control of the ball to threaten at the gates of Iceland.

Approximate compositions

Iceland: Halldorsson – Severson, Arnason, Ragnar Sigurdsson, Magnusson Gudmundsson, Hallfredsson, Bjarnason, Bjarnason, Sigurdsson Hilfe – Finnbogason

Ukraine: Pyatov – Butko (Morozyuk), Kryvtsov (Rakitskiy), Khacheridi, Matvienko, Stepanenko, Yarmolenko, Rotan, Kovalenko, Konoplyanka, Kravets

My prediction for today's match : a draw or a victory for Ukraine. The first team beat Turkey, 2-3 goals at least flew the gates vis-a-vis