Goals from Yarmolenko at the end of the first half and from Yaremchuk, then Scotland shorten with McGregor and in the recovery close Dovbyk
They called it “the most important game of their life” and they won it: goals by Yarmolenko (a left footed shot from the center of the box under the crossbar) in the 39th minute of the first half and by Yaremchuk in the 4th minute of the second (header from close range) they decided on the challenge, Dovbyk’s in recovery then put the last seal. Thus Ukraine beat Scotland 3-1 in the first playoff to go to the Qatar World Cup. Going 2-0 between the 33rd and 49th minutes, Ukraine then managed to control and defend the advantage from the Scottish return that led to Callum McGregor’s goal with a left-footed left 10 minutes from the end. But nothing to do for the Scots: in the recovery Dovbyk in the 95th minute seals the 3-1 final and Ukraine goes ahead, which now will face Wales on Sunday 5 June in Cardiff, in the playoff final, to continue chasing the dream of the World Cup in Qatar.
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The postponement for the war
This game was to be played at the end of March
, but Uefa has postponed everything to June, in the hope that the conflict could already be over. It was not like that and for Ukraine to get to play this match tonight was not easy: most of the players had to wait over two months without playing after the invasion of February 24, to then meet in retreat in Slovenia in Brdo, in a resort near the capital Ljubljana, the city of Uefa president Ceferin, who has taken steps to put the Ukrainian national team in the best possible conditions. Now he has a whole country on his shoulders that dreams of going to the World Cup.
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Pele’s appeal
The world of football has mobilized, even Pele wrote an open letter to Putin: “Today Ukraine tries to forget, at least for 90 minutes, the tragedy that still engulfs its country”, the post on Instagram just before the Ukraine team took the field. «I want to use today’s game as an opportunity to make a request: stop the invasion. There is absolutely no justification for this continued violence. This conflict is evil, unjustifiable and brings nothing but pain, fear, terror and anguish … Wars exist only to separate nations and there is no ideology that justifies the missile bullets that bury children’s dreams, ruin families and they kill the innocent ». Pele recalled meeting Putin in the past and exchanging “smiles accompanied by a long handshake”. “The power to stop this conflict is in your hands. The same ones I shook in Moscow, in our last meeting in 2017, ”wrote Pele.
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