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21:12
Captain Robertson turns up the heat! The Liverpool player lets out two Ukrainians, Yarmolenko and Karavayev, on the left corner of the box. From half-left 14 meters he tries a violent shot with the left instep. Zabarnyi blocks it for a corner. That doesn’t bring Scotland anything.
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21:08
The Ukrainians stay on the trigger! After Karavayev’s flat cross pass, Yaremchuk shoots from the right flank from a central 13 meters not far to the right of the home box.
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21:06
Robertson crosses the first Scottish corner from the left flag with a lot of spin in front of the far post. Hanley jumps higher than his guard Zabarnyi and heads just over the right angle from a good eight yards.
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21:04
Yarmolenko with the huge opportunity to 0:1! After Yaremchuk passed a low pass from the left wing into the center of the penalty area, the ex-Dortmunder was able to shoot from ten meters out of the turn. Gordon defuses the ball in the half-left corner in the follow-up.
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21:01
The Scots now also have to solve difficult tasks in their build-up game, as Oleksandr Petrakov’s men courageously die early. The home team is still waiting for its first dangerous conclusion.
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20:58
Yellow card for Ruslan Malinovskiy (Ukraine)
With the Italy legionnaire, the next Ukrainian trades a yellow card in the first quarter of an hour. He came way too late in midfield against Dykes.
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20:55
Tsygankov demands Gordon all away! The Dinamo Kiev striker converted Yarmolenko’s mid-high cross from the right wing into a direct acceptance with the right instep from a central 19 meters. Gordon steers the powerful attempt in the upper right corner with his fingertips over his chest.
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20:55
While the Clarke team operates with a lot of flying balls, the blue and yellow rely more on an approach with many flat short passes. You find a good start after many months without a competitive game.
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20:52
Yellow card for Roman Yaremchuk (Ukraine)
The attacker Benfica slides into Gilmour’s legs from behind in the opponent’s half. The Dutch referee Makkelie pulls out an early yellow card.
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20:52
Dykes is the addressee of a long hit by McTominay in the offensive center. He wants to head steeply forward to Adams. Defender Matvienko paid attention and intercepted the ball.
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20:50
The hosts immediately attacked the opposing build-up very high and wanted to give an early signal. But the guest doesn’t really let that bother him.
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20:47
Scotland vs Ukraine – the World Cup play-off semifinals at Hampden Park are on!
20:41
The national anthems sound.
20:40
The teams have just entered the pitch in the best of moods in front of sold-out ranks. The eleven guest players have flags in their national colors.
20:38
Oleksandr Petrakov im Twice compared to the last competitive game last November. Mykolenko and Karavayev take the places of Tymchyk and Sobol.
20:24
Bravehearts, unbeaten at home since September 2019 and captained and MVP by Liverpool winger Robertson, have made six changes to coach Steve Clark since the 2-2 friendly draw in Austria at the end of March. Instead of Tierney, Patterson, Hendry, Jack, Ferguson, and Armstrong, Hickey, Cooper, Gilmour, McTominay, McGregor, and Dykes start.
20:12
Before Ukraine was invaded by Russia at the end of February, the men’s national soccer team had played a curious group stage in World Cup qualifiers between March and November 2021. Although she remained undefeated in a season with defending champions France, she was only able to win two games out of six draws. Only on the last day of the game did the blue and yellow overtake Finland with a 2-0 win in Bosnia-Herzegovina and make it into the playoffs.
20:00
Scotland can end a long losing streak this week, having last represented at a World Cup in France in 1998. The Bravehearts continued the recent upward trend, which culminated in their participation in the European Championships last summer and the decent performances shown there: behind Denmark and ahead of Israel, Austria, the Faroe Islands and Moldova they finished second with seven wins, two draws and just one loss.
19:55
29 national teams have already bought their ticket for the World Cup, which takes place in Qatar in just over six months, and also know at least two of their three opponents in the group stage. The 13th European participant in the global tournament will only be determined in this international window, more than two months later than planned. The reason is non-sporting: Because of the Russian war of aggression, Ukraine can only now hold its playoff semifinals in Scotland. The winners of the game in Glasgow take on the Welsh side in Cardiff on Sunday night, who beat Austria 2-1 at the end of March.
19:45
Hello and welcome to the fifth and final World Cup playoff semi-final in European qualifiers! Scotland’s national team and Ukraine’s squad will be looking to save their chances for the last European ticket. The Welsh team’s opponent will be determined from 20:45 GMT at Hampden Park.