Ukraine can pull level on points with Croatia on Wednesday by beating visiting Kazakhstan at Dynamo Kyiv’s Lobanovsky Stadium. The national team has never lost on Dynamo’s home turf, but nothing short of a victory will satisfy Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko’s squad or their supporters. Ukraine will be without captain Andriy Shevchenko, so the manager [...]

The clash between Ukraine and Croatia had all the makings of a heavyweight prizefight. The visitors were stunned early, but bounced off the ropes with an uppercut of their own. Ukraine had gained the momentum but the loss of their talisman evened out the flow of the match. And even though Ukraine [...]

It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Saturday’s World Cup qualifier between Croatia and Ukraine. The teams are in direct competition for the runner up spot in Group Six. A loss for either side would make them outsiders in the race for South Africa 2010, that much is certain. But [...]

Oleksandr Aliyev will not be able to help Ukraine in the upcoming World Cup qualifiers. The Dynamo Kyiv playmaker suffered an ankle injury in training and will be unavailable for two weeks. That means Aliyev will miss the matches against Croatia and Kazakhstan.

No harm no foul right? That’s what Wayne Rooney tried to convey as he stared pleadingly at the referee with the eyes of a teenage vandal caught red handed. Luckily for him Claus Bo-Larsen was in position to see the England striker catch a piece of the ball in his attempt to maim [...]

If the England national team was hoping to tilt the Wembley pitch and roll over Ukraine in their World Cup 2010 qualifier, those dreams evaporated quickly into the London haze. Oleksiy Mykhaylichenko’s side proved they are not pushovers as they produced their best showing during the tenure of their much-maligned manager. The hostile [...]

In the last few days I have been diligently looking over English media outlets, trying to figure out what the Brits think of their Eastern European opponents. The two football teams have a lot in common, you know. Both sides reached the quarterfinals of the 2006 World Cup, and both failed to qualify [...]

Artem Kravets’s hopes of making his national team debut at Wembley stadium were dashed when he suffered a muscle tear in his hip during training. The in-form Dynamo Kyiv striker was replaced on the roster by Shakhtar Donetsk’s Yevhen Seleznyov. While the Ukraine squad is getting sick of going up against one another [...]

After gathering gathering outside of Kiev to hold a quick camp, the Ukraine national team has left for London to prepare for their World Cup 2010 qualifying match against England. But not all of the invited players made the trip. Metalist Kharkiv’s Oleksandr Goryainov and Marko Devic, Dynamo Kyiv’s Serhiy Kravchenko, Shakhtar Donetsk’s [...]