Ukraine vs England will play at Euro 2020, in Quarter-finals on Stadio Olimpico, Saturday, 3 July 2021 at 20:00 (GMT+1). The last match of the Euro 2020 quarterfinals, proposes a confrontation between a definite favorite, England and a surprise opponent in this phase of the competition, Ukraine.
Ukraine vs England Match Preview
9 years ago, England and Ukraine face in the Euro 2012 groups. The then confrontation was won by England with 1-0, the only goal being scored in the second half by Wayne Rooney. The last two direct duels between the two teams did not have any winners, the score being 0-0 and 1-1.
Ukraine:
Ukraine qualifies for the first time in the quarterfinals of a European tournament, after qualifying for the round of 16 was also a first. Ukraine’s presence in the quarterfinals is considered by far the biggest surprise at Euro 2020, given that so far national teams such as France, Germany, the Netherlands and Portugal have been eliminated. In the eighth finals, Ukraine needed 120 minutes to pass Sweden, after at the end of the 90 minutes the table showed the score equal to 1-1.
England:
England is the big favorite to reach the Euro 2020 final, which will be played at Wembley Stadium on July 11, 2021. In the eighth round, England beat Germany, played a perfect game and won 2-0. It was the 4th consecutive match in Euro 2020 in which England did not concede a goal. It is also the only national team with this performance. In total, England has reached six consecutive matches in which it does not receive a goal and has great chances to keep its goal intact for at least one more match.
Ukraine vs England statistics and possible teams
Ukraine has only one victory in the official matches against England. The match took place in the qualifiers for the 2010 World Cup, when Ukraine won at home with 1-0. If we look at the statistics of direct confrontations, Ukraine is undefeated in three of the last four confrontations with England.
Ukraine: Bushchan; Karavaev, Zabarnyi, Kryvstov, Matviyenko; Sydorchuk, Stepanenko, Zinchenko; Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Shaparenko
England: Pickford; Walker, Stones, Maguire; Trippier, Rice, Phillips, Shaw; Saka, Kane, Sterling
Ukraine squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo Kyiv), Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Anatolii Trubin (Shakhtar Donetsk)
Defenders: Oleksandr Karavaev (Dynamo Kyiv), Serhiy Kryvtsov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Mykola Matviyenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Vitaliy Mykolenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Denys Popov (Dynamo Kyiv), Eduard Sobol (Club Brugge), Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo Kyiv), Illia Zabarnyi (Dynamo Kyiv), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Manchester City)
Midfielders: Roman Bezus (Gent), Yevhen Makarenko (Kortrijk), Ruslan Malinovskyi (Atalanta), Marlos (Shakhtar Donetsk), Mykola Shaparenko (Dynamo Kyiv), Taras Stepanenko (Shakhtar Donetsk), Heorhii Sudakov (Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk (Dynamo Kyiv), Viktor Tsygankov (Dynamo Kyiv)
Forwards: Artem Besedin (Dynamo Kyiv), Artem Dovbyk (Dnipro-1), Roman Yaremchuk (Gent), Andriy Yarmolenko (West Ham), Oleksandr Zubkov (Ferencváros)
England squad for Euro 2020
Goalkeepers: Sam Johnstone (West Bromwich Albion), Jordan Pickford (Everton), Aaron Ramsdale (Sheffield United)
Defenders: Ben Chilwell (Chelsea), Conor Coady (Wolves), Reece James (Chelsea), Harry Maguire (Manchester United), Tyrone Mings (Aston Villa), Luke Shaw (Manchester United), John Stones (Manchester City), Kieran Trippier (Atlético), Kyle Walker (Manchester City), Ben White (Brighton)
Midfielders: Jude Bellingham (Dortmund), Phil Foden (Manchester City), Jack Grealish (Aston Villa), Jordan Henderson (Liverpool), Mason Mount (Chelsea), Kalvin Phillips (Leeds United), Declan Rice (West Ham), Bukayo Saka (Arsenal), Jadon Sancho (Dortmund)
Forwards: Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton), Harry Kane (Tottenham), Marcus Rashford (Manchester United), Raheem Sterling (Manchester City)
* Possible prediction: BTS/YES
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