Ukraine 0 - 0 Italy

Venue: BayArena, Leverkusen, Germany

Referee: Jesus Gil Manzano (Spain)


Ukraine:

Starting XI Notes Subs Notes
Anatoliy Trubin Dmytro Riznyk
Oleksandr Svatok 90+1’ Heorhiy Bushchan
Illia Zabarnyi Mykola Matviyenko
Yukhym Konoplya 79’ 86’ Oleksandr Tymchyk 86’
Vitalii Mykolenko Vladyslav Dubinchak
Taras Stepanenko 80’ Valeriy Bondar
Viktor Tsygankov 80’ Serhiy Sydorchuk
Heorhiy Sudakov Oleksandr Pikhalyonok 80’
Oleksandr Zinchenko 86’ Oleksandr Zubkov 80’
Mykhaylo Mudryk Ruslan Malinovskyi 90+1’
Artem Dovbyk Danylo Sikan 86’
Roman Yaremnchuk

Manager: Serhiy Rebrov (Ukraine)


Italy:

Starting XI Notes Subs Notes
Gianluigi Donnarumma Ivan Provedel
Francesco Acerbi Guglielmo Vicario
Alessandro Buongiorno 7’ Federico Gatti
Giovanni Di Lorenzo Gianluca Mancini
Federico Dimarco Matteo Darmian 90+2’
Jorginho 71’ Cristiano Biraghi
Davide Frattesi Bryan Cristante 71’
Nicolò Barella Giacomo Bonaventura
Nicolò Zaniolo 71’ Matteo Politano 71’ 90+2’
Federico Chiesa 81’ Moise Kean 81’
Giacomo Raspadori 46’ Stephan El Shaarawy
Gianluca Scamacca 46’

Manager: Luciano Spalletti (Italy)


MATCH EVENTS

1’: We’re off!

5’: Ukraine survives some early Italian dominance and hit the counter, but Mudryk’s shot is caught comfortably by Donnarumma

7’: The ball is teed up for Chiesa but he scoops the ball over the net from close range!

7’: Alessandro Buongiorno carded for pulling back Dobvyk by the shirt.

8’: Tsygankov fires the free kick, it goes over everyone and easily into Donnarumma’s hands.

14’: SAVE!! Fantastic shot low and to the right by Sudakov, but kept out by Donnarumma!

16’: SAVE!! Barella lets one fly and Trubin pushes it away!

20’: Raspadori picks out Di Lorenzo with the cross but Di Lorenzo can’t keep his header down and it lands on top of the net.

22’: Barella’s shot is right at the keeper.

28’: Di Lorenzo’s header from close range goes through traffic but goes wide!

29’: Trubin way off his line quick to deny a big chance for Frattesi!

30’: Dimarco spins and fires but puts it wide. Italy starting to really hammer the Ukrainians.

32’: Raspadori slides in but can’t quite get to Chiesa’s cross and score the tap-in!

HT Ukraine 0-0 Italy Furious game! No goals yet though.


46’: Italy substitution: Gianluca Scamacca on for Giacomo Raspadori

46’: We’re back!

48’: Scamacca stabs the ball over, plus flag up

58’: Chiesa swings one towards the far post but it doesn’t curl like he needs it to.

61’: Di Lorenzo gets underneath Chiesa’s cross, heads it high

65’: Donnarumma doesn’t get the ball! It bounces away across goal towards Mudryk!! But Donnarumma rescues himself quickly and makes the save!

66’: Tsygankov causing chaos in the box! His pass is deflected by Jorginho towards goal, Donnarumma down in time to make the save!

71’: Italy double sub: Bryan Cristante and Matteo Politano on for Jorginho and Nicolò Zaniolo

74’: Mudryk puts his shot well wide from distance, under pressure

76’: Scamacca lunges forward but can’t really make contact, Trubin picks up the ball which is dribbling wide.

79’: Yukhin Konoplya swings wildly and knocks Chiesa over on the sideline

80’: Ukraine double sub: Oleksandr Pikhalyonok and Oleksandr Zubkov on for Taras Stepanenko and Viktor Tsygankov

81’: Italy substitution: Moise Kean on for Federico Chiesa

82’: Politano fires from distance, high and wide.

86’: Ukraine double sub: Danylo Sikan and Oleksandr Tymchyk on for Yukhym Konoplya and Oleksandr Zinchenko

89’: Sudakov fires a long shot from distance, it’s low and on target but an easy save for Donnarumma.

90+1’: Ukraine substitution: Ruslian Malinovskyi on for Olksandr Svatok

90+2’: Italy substitution: Matteo Darmian on for Matteo Politano

90+3’: Mudryk mishits his shot wide, he goes down in the box!! No penalty!! Did Cristante foul him??? Are we going to check?? We are not!!!

90+6’: Sikan’s shot is blunted by a Buongiornio block and makes for an easy save.

FT Ukraine 0-0 Italy Italy somehow survive (controversially at the end) with a nil-nil draw to make it to the Euros!