February 9, 2024, Friday. 06:30
The draw for the group round of the 2024/25 Nations League took place yesterday. The Ukrainian national team, which was seeded from the second basket of Division B, also learned about its rivals. As a result, the Ukrainian national team ended up in group B1, where their opponents were the Czech Republic, Albania and Georgia. Well, we note that the group will be played according to the classical scheme: two matches (home and away for each team) between the opponents. The group winners will be promoted to Division A, the last places will drop to Division C. The third place groups of Division B will compete in the playoffs for the right to remain in Division B with the second places of the groups of Division C. And the second places of Division B will have a chance to be promoted to Division A through playoffs with third places in Group A.
Shakhtar Donetsk held their last sparring session at the winter training camp in Turkey. The Pitmen’s last opponent was Lechia from Poland’s second division. Pusic put forward a conditional basis for the fight. Shakhtar had the advantage, but at the same time looked quite difficult. Lechia played defensively in the best traditions of UPL teams, and this caused serious inconvenience for the Pitmen. In the middle of the second half, Zubkov opened the scoring, however, after 12 minutes the Polish team evened out the balance on the scoreboard. In a week, the first LE match with Marseille, which will answer whether Shakhtar should be criticized for such a game.
Dynamo Kiev held its fifth sparring at the winter training camp in Turkey. The Kyivans’ rivals were the Latvian “Liepaja”. The match, as befits sparring, turned out to be open and very productive.
The first half was dictated by the people of Kiev, and not without attacks from the opponent. Dynamo scored three goals before the break (one was even scored by Supryaga), but rather unexpectedly conceded two. The final score is 5:2. The goals were scored by: Tsarenko, Dyachuk, Supryaga, Karavaev and Vanat.
Girona named the team’s best player in January according to fans. The award was received by Ukrainian forward Artem Dovbik. In the voting, Artem was ahead of Ivan Martin, Daley Blind, Porto and Jan Couta. Last month, the 26-year-old Ukrainian played six matches for the Red and Whites, in which he scored three goals and made two assists.
Former head coach of Chelsea, Juventus and Tottenham, Antonio Conte, has offered his services to Catalan Barcelona, which Xavi will leave in the summer. Sport.es reports this. According to the source, the blue garnets have not yet taken any steps to respond to the proposal. It is noted that Barcelona may turn to Conte’s candidacy, but at this stage he is not even on the short list of coaches that the Catalan club is interested in.
According to information from the British publication TEAMtalk, Everton is already planning its actions in case the team is relegated from the Premier League this season. As you know, they have already been deducted 10 points this season and now they really risk getting into the Championship. It turns out that the Toffees are planning to release several team leaders at once to balance the financial situation. Vitaly Mykolenko was also included in the list.
In general, the club considers the following players as valuable assets that can bring good money to the Liverpool club: Jarrad Branthwaite, Amadou Onana, Jordan Pickford, Dominic Calvert-Lewin, Abdoulaye Doucouré, Jack Harrison, as well as Ukrainian Vitaly Mykolenko.
2024-02-09 04:30:00
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