It’s hard to believe our World Cup run is over. Congrats to Greece. You got the win, and you’re in.
EURO 2012 is just around the corner, and I’m already counting down the days.

Gambling site Will Hill’s odds on the Wed, Nov 18th second leg are Ukraine to win 4-5, draw 21-10, and a Greek victory at 3-1 – almost the reverse of the odds heading into the Athens meeting. Temperature looks to be 8 degrees C (not freezing), with a chance of rain. I’ve heard Shakhtar’s new 50,000-seat is already sold out. Good luck Ukraine. This really is it – win, and we’re in.

Mykhailychenko will be playing for the win on Saturday, saying “We’re going to try to score goals in Greece.” Wear your Yellow and Blue with pride – this is it!

Andriy Voronin looks set to sit out the playoffs vs. Greece. And it appears injuries will also be keeping Dynamo goalkeeper Oleksandr Shovkovskiy and Dnipro halfback Serhiy Nazarenko (our 2nd highest scorer in qualifiers) from joining the Yellow-Blues in Athens. The team is, however, welcoming back Barca defender Dmytro Chygrynskiy and Dnipro defender Andriy Rusol. Oleksiy Mykhailychenko also gives Karpaty halfback Igor Khydobiak for his first call-up.

Well, its been a roller-coaster this year for our Yellow-Blues, with a lot of close calls – but we’ve made it to the playoffs, to meet Greece. The next match is in Athens, Nov 14th, followed by home turf, Donetsk, on the 18th. We control our World Cup fate… and I wouldn’t want it any other way.

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So along with Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil and England were also eliminated. That’s not bad company at all ;O)
I’m sure most people will be looking for Germany to get vengence for us and Australia. On the other side, I just don’t see Portugal beating France, but if they do, good to them, they have never won [...]

We lost 3-0, but anyone that watched that game would agree that this score does not do us justice, it was a good game and could have been a lot closer. In the end, the better team won, they outplayed us in the first half and deserve all the respect for their victory. I wish Italy luck against Germany, you won the game without any controversy, it was undesputed that you got the best of team Ukraine.

All the ingredients are there, we’re all confident it might and yet nervous that it might not.

Unfortunately, I made an error in the previous blog, I have discovered that
Voronin will no longer be with us on our road to glory.
but never fear my fellow Ukrainians, because Milevskiy will shine in his place !