By: yevy

yevy — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 06:44:28 +0000

If Sheva manages to find his form at Milan I would not mind seeing him paired with Milevskiy. The partnership could work if the team commits to looking for Artem as the primary target man and Sheva does the running off the ball. But Sheva needs to play more than 15 minutes every other match in order to reach the required fitness. I hope Kakha Kaladze is right when he says Sheva is just about rounding into shape. But the Milan lineup is going to be tough to break into.

By: skillz

skillz — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 22:26:01 +0000

So doesnt look like Sheva and Voronin have much of a future in the national team. Will Sheva play against England just because of who he is?

By: Marko Jevhenijovich

Marko Jevhenijovich — Thu, 12 Feb 2009 10:05:09 +0000

Well actually I am deeply impressed of they way the ukrainian team played these two matches. I always watch every single game of my home country and I see a huge progress compared with the horrible meetings against Netherlands and Croatia (not to forget Cyprus). Especially happy am I about the results and the way the Ukrainians achieved these results. In the game against Slovakia our main central defender couple showed an awful game, all the time when our team started to play very confidently, they allowed HORRIBLE mistakes. But nevertheless Ukraine acted like a real top team. After a goal from Slovakia they didn’t start to get afraid, passing the pall 10 minutes in their own half, no, after every goal they started to attack angrily until they scored a goal. That’s how it should be! To talk about Kudhzhamov: He is rightly only the number two in Shakhtar. Yesterday he played a horrible game, he was unsure in everything he did and I thought many times that because of him we will get a goal. I hope in future Piatov will be healthy, then we have nothing to be afraid of. Shovkovskyi as a backup keeper is also not bad. I would say after these games we can be sure that Michailichenko has already half the final line up for the England game (although I hope that the week before Wembley we’re going to play another friendly, it would be bad if not). Undoubtly Tymoshchuk will be in the starting lineup against England, he’s just a worldclass player, showed us many perfect moves yesterday and wonderful tackles. The goalkeeper will be Piatov, that’s for sure. One striker will be Milevskiy, about the second (I AM BEGGING YOU MICHAILICHENKO, WE HAVE TO PLAY WITH TWO STRIKERS AGAINST ENGLAND) I am not sure. Neither Selezniov nor Homeniuk, Devich or Voronin really satisfied me. About Sheva I don’t even want to talk. I want him not to be called anymore as soon as he finds a club where he plays 90 minutes a game. For sure in the starting lineup will be Nazarenko who showed a brilliant game in many meetings under Michailichenko. If Mandziuk goes on with his progress as he showed i nthe two meetings, he will be also in the lineup, but not as a central defender. I have to confess, Michalik and Chihrinskyi have to play better to play TOGETHER. Chyhrynskyi played well in both meethings but Michalik… We’ll see. Pashaev will be an option for the future so I hope that Nesmachnyi or Fedoriv will show themselve well for the England game. I also think that Aliev will play, because he and Milevskyi together work just great.

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