Comments on: Shevchenko saga grips Ukraine

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:49:17 +0000

How symbollic of this game: Shevchenko takes his one and only true shot all match in injury time, slams against a Spain defender, and hears the whistle calling an end to this big, big defeat for Ukraine. This was the Match of Death they would have rather avoided. Wonderful Spain, but Ukraine ain’t done yet.

Pierre Uncensored http://www.pierretristam.com

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:43:38 +0000

What a terrific run of football in this game. Leipzig was once known as the Communist world’s capital of gymnastics; today it’s the capital of the beautiful game: three of the four goals in this game deserve to hang at the Louvre, even if Ukraine haven’t put up much of a worthy opposition.
Pierre Uncensored http://www.pierretristam.com

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:30:30 +0000

The game is out of reach for Ukraine, advancing into the second round isn’t–if the Ukranians think the battle of the Muezzins, between Tunisia and Saudi Arabia, will allow them to divide and conquer. But they may be surprised: Tunisia, now Africa’s last hope, are no push-overs, and the Saudis can be unpredictable despite having a man older than the dunes in goal.
Pierre Uncensored http://www.pierretristam.com

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 21:10:24 +0000

A cloud is wafting over the Ukrainian side, and it’s got the Chernenko effect colored all over it…
Pierre Uncensored… http://www.pierretristam.com

By: USA

USA — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:59:03 +0000

I hope they let Milevskiy play.

Also, they need to put the ball on the ground and try to run on flanks. When they tried that at the end of the half, they looked better.

Unfortunately, Spain is playing up to its potential today and Ukraine is just plain nervous.

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:57:38 +0000

For Ukraine, here’s the question: where’s Rusol (other than landing himself yellows?) Where’s Gusin? For that matter, where has Shevchenko been all game? Yes they’re being outplayed by a wonderful display of on-point football the likes of which Iberia hasn’t produced in the last, oh, half millennium, but since when have you heard of Ukrainians being intimidayed by anything, and anyone? That’s the surprise in this match: the unevenness–not to take anything away from the superior beauty of the Spaniards.
Pierre Uncensored http://www.pierretristam.com

By: Total Football

Total Football — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 20:08:43 +0000

It may be 92 degrees in Leipzig, but this game has started fiercely for both sides, fabulously for fans: we need a good game, after a run of somewhat sub-par performances (including yesterday’s overweight and underperforming Brazil debut). One advantage in this match: neither team is the overwhelming favorite, both teams have a chance at dark-horse status.
Pierre Uncensored http://www.pierretristam.com

By: Toncho

Toncho — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 17:30:27 +0000

Sheva will play even if he is not 100%. It’s first WC and don’t want to miss a single match. Anyway, Ukraine IS NOT Sheva and 10 more as many may think.

By: USA

USA — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 12:30:44 +0000

I think Ukraine has a good team, with or without Sheva. If he plays and is productive, all the better. But even if he can’t start, they still got great strikers. I was really impressed with Milevskiy, I hope Blokhin plans to use him.

By: Ukraine

Ukraine — Wed, 14 Jun 2006 11:29:27 +0000

I just think all this hype around shevchenko downplays the rest of our players. Shevchenko is not our team, a striker is not a team and he is not a playmaker, he can’t drive a team alone like a playmaker can. We have some great talent out there and no one knows anything about it because all everyone knows is that ukraine have shevchenko. You know, in our friendlies we went 10-0 and shevchenko only played 30 minutes and scored only one of those ten goals. We won 4-0 vs costa rica without sheva. I just wish the media would know a little bit more about our national team except shevchenko. Sure he’s good but there’s 10 guys behind him who deserve as much respect because they did no less work than him to bring us to Germany.