In the play-off semi-finals of the 2022 World Cup European Qualifications, Scotland hosted Ukraine at Hampden Park. In the match that started at 21.45, Dutch Football Federation’s Danny Makkelie whistled. Hessel Steegstra and Jan de Vries were the assistants of Makkelie.
Ukraine took the lead in the 33rd minute of the fight, which was postponed from March 24 to June 1 after the war Russia launched against Ukraine. Ruslan Malinovskyi’s pass, and Andriy Yarmolenko’s plagiarism hit the round leather nets: 0-1. The opposing team increased the difference to 2 in the 49th minute. In the middle of Oleksandr Karavaev, Roman Yaremchuk met with the ball in front of the sixpast, and the ball hit the nets: 0-2. Scotland reduced the lead to 1 in the 79th minute of the match. Evaluating the mistake of Ukrainian goalkeeper Georgiy Bushchan well, Callum McGregor hit the ball when he came across it in the penalty area. After crossing the leather round line that the defense was trying to prevent, the difference decreased to 1: 1-2. In the 90+5th minute of the fight, Ukraine increased the gap to 2 again. Artem Dovbyk, who met the ball with Oleksandr Zinchenko’s pass, brought the ball into the nets: 1-3.
The fight ended with Ukraine’s superiority 3-1. With this result, Ukraine became the opponent of Wales in the 2022 World Cup European Qualification play-off final, which will be played on Sunday, 5 June at 19.00.
The winner of the match to be played between Wales and Ukraine will be the opponents of England, Iran and the USA in Group B in the 2022 World Cup.