Ukraine is back !

yes very good stuff, a bit shaky in defence (but then again we arent playing our normal defence), its good that blohin finally plays milevskiy, would be nice to have seen Chingrinskiy out there too, he was tremendous potential, but, I guess not this time. I wanted milevskiy to get a goal in his first performance.. ah well, I am happy. Good show..

Posted from  United States

Good result… as it should be. They are now even in the +/- category. Their fate is in their own hands. Win on Friday and they’re in.

Posted from  Canada

There’s the Ukrane that everybody was waiting to see… and Sheva got on the board, finally!

Posted from  United States

This is indeed the Ukraine we all know and love. The team plays well when they want to play.

I was thinking maybe the weather conditions had something to do with a better performance. It was nice and cool.

Posted from  Canada

Congratulations! Great game. That’s how I expected them to play to begin with.

Posted from  United States

whew! that was so much better. I felt much like the booing fans after that last miserable showing, and am relieved to see they can really pull it together. That header goal was so nice!

Posted from  Canada

Yeah, indeed that was way better, however our attack wasted so many great opportunities.. that was sort-of sad. Had they scored everything, it would have been a 10-0 game, at least.

Tunisia - Ukraine will be one hell of a game for sure.

Yes, there was some waste. But this happens in every game. No team can put away every chance. The important thing was that they kept creating those chances. It wasn’t like they had only 4 shots and all 4 went in.

Posted from  United States

That’s true. However I doubt they will have simillar luxury in the upcoming game.

Defense played pretty much flawless (with exception of that one moment when Saudi player managed to make a cross, when the ball almost went out).

Also, how are we on yellow cards? I noticed that our defense picked up two? unnecessery cards.

well, that one chance Voronin had was unexcusable, he should have put that in the net !

Posted from  United States

rad|x, I suggest you rewatch the first half of the saudi game… the defence isnt where it should be still… if they play like that against tunisia and thier fast players then the outcome will be pretty bad.

But midfield was amazing… forwards were good but still the passing could improve..

Over all this was what ukriane needed and played the whole 90 mins of the game. Good job but lets focus on tunisia.

Sheva, Sheva, Sheva. Ukraine is sure to make it the the next round!

Posted from  China

clamato, i dont understand what race has to do with soccer please take your comments else where. Even though im Ukrainian those comments shouldnt be on here..

I got to watch only 30 mins of the second half ATI’s latest software updates are to blame. From What I saw (and I may be wrong) the teams were playing even, as in UKR had to vverk to score. I was under impression (when I was listening to the feed) that we were giving saudis hell.
Damn you ATI!!! go YKPAIHA

Posted from  United States

Так, добре грали! Так далі Треба обовясково.

Posted from  United States

Players of the game, definitely kalinchenko, he made so many nice chips into the box in the free kicks and he played a hard fought game. Also Nesmanchy deserves some credit for once again an outstanidng performance, Nesmanchy and Tymoschyuk have to be the best hustlers for ukraine, they fight the hardest out there!

Posted from  Canada

Hi
Finally They won! Ole ole ole. But sad that so many oportunities was missed. But still I love Ukraine.

Posted from  Estonia

Sche ne vmerla Ukraina! - Ukraine is not dead yet! (from Ukraine’s national anthem)
This was a great team, finally one could see them fighting every ball, although i think big part of it was Saudi’s playing very bad. We will still need to improve to beat Tunisia who kept Spanish down for 75 minutes. Psycologically very important game.

Posted from  Germany

hgj

Posted from  United States

I guess we musn’t be very optimistic before the last game with Tunisia. ’cause it’s 2 different teams - SA and Tunisisa though they are both African…
Instersting what weather will be on Friday? Hope it’ll be rain :)))

Posted from  Ukraine

Saudi Arabia is not in Africa man, its in Asia

Posted from  United States

Andriy but near Africa so I think we can call it both african and asian, like Turkey is between Europe and Asia

Posted from  Ukraine

Drewkha, with all due respect, Saudi Arabia is definetly not African. I guess you wouldn’t like if someone says that Urkaine is in Asia or Africa, so i think it’s not fair to Saudi people.

Posted from  Germany

I think he meant that it does not rain that often in Africa Tunicia or Asia KSA, no need to give us geography lessons:)

Posted from  Canada