|
Rank |
FIFA (22
December 2022) 5th
EFO ranking
Group Two
ELO rating 7th |
Colours |
The Nike 2022 home uniform -
White crew-necked jerseys
with dark to light blue
fury gradient sleeves, fury/void cuffs, blue void shorts,
white socks with fury/void thin hoop. |
Captain |
Harry Kane
|
Manager |
Gareth Southgate, 52 (3 September 1970), appointed caretaker manager on 27 September 2016, appointed as permanent manager on 30 November
2016.
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⁴⁷
most goals as captain |
57th of 73, W 34 - D 12 - L 11 - F 128 - A 48. |
|
Jordan Henderson
80:16 |
P 83rd of 102, W 51 - D
18 - L 14 - F 178 - A 58. |
England
Lineup |
|
three changes on the previous match (Shaw, Phillips &
Grealish out) |
league position (16th March) |
|
1 |
Pickford, Jordan L. |
29 19 days |
7 March 1994 |
G |
Everton FC
(PL 15th) |
52 |
39ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Walker, Kyle
A. |
32 302 days |
28 May 1990 |
RB |
Manchester City FC
(PL 2nd) |
75 |
0 |
5 |
Stones, John |
28 302 days |
28 May 1994 |
RCD |
Manchester City FC
(PL 2nd) |
66 |
3 |
6 |
Maguire, J. Harry |
30 21 days |
5 March 1993 |
LCD |
Manchester United FC
(PL 3rd) |
55 |
7 |
3 |
Chilwell, Benjamin
J. |
26 95 days |
21 December 1996 |
LB |
Chelsea FC
(PL 10th) |
18 |
1 |
10 |
Bellingham, Jude V.W.,
off 86th min. |
19 270 days |
29 June 2003 |
RF |
Bsv Borussia 09 Dortmund,
Germany |
24 |
1 |
8
|
Henderson, Jordan B. |
32 282 days |
17 June 1990 |
CM |
Liverpool FC
(PL 6th) |
75 |
3 |
4 |
Rice, Declan |
24 71 days |
14 January 1999 |
LM |
West Ham United FC
(PL 17th) |
41 |
3 |
7
|
Saka, Bukayo A.T. |
21 202 days |
5 September 2001 |
RF |
Arsenal FC
(PL TOP) |
26 |
8 |
9
|
Kane, Harry E., off 81st
min. |
29 241 days |
28 July 1993 |
CF |
Tottenham Hotspur FC
(PL 4th) |
82 |
55 |
11 |
Maddison, James D.,
off 85th min. |
26
123 days |
23 November 1996 |
LF |
Leicester City FC
(PL 16th) |
2 |
0 |
England
Substitutes |
scoreline:
England
2 Ukraine 0 |
105 |
19 |
Toney, Ivan B.E., on 81st min.
(80:30) for Kane |
27
10 days |
16 March 1996 |
CF |
Brentford FC
(PL 8th) |
1 |
0 |
1272 |
the third player from Brentford
FC - first since 1939 |
16 |
Grealish, Jack P., on 85th min.
(84:50) for Maddison |
27 197 days |
10 September 1995 |
LF |
Manchester City FC
(PL 2nd) |
31 |
13 |
2 |
18 |
18 |
Gallagher, Conor J., on 86th min.
(85:07) for Bellingham |
23 48 days |
6 February 2000 |
LM |
Chelsea FC
(PL 10th) |
6 |
2 |
0 |
4 |
result:
England 2 Ukraine 0 |
unused
substitutes: |
12-Kieran Trippier, 13-Aaron Ramsdale,
14-Marc Guéhi, 15-Eric Dier,
17-Kalvin
Phillips, 22-Fraser Forster. |
team notes: |
Harry Kane was awarded a special golden boot by the FA prior to this
match. Jack Grealish's great great
grandfather,
Billy Garraty, also played for
England in 1903. |
youth notes: |
England and
Ukraine have met only a few times in
youth level matches
featuring the participating players. Jordan Pickford played in the
under-16s fixture in March 2010. Harry Kane was a substitute when
the under-17s met in a month earlier. Kyle Walker started the group
match and Final against Ukraine in the under-19s Finals in July-August
2009 and Pickford started the October 2012 fixture. Walker also
started in the under-21s Finals in June 2011, along with Jordan
Henderson. James Maddison was a substitute in the November 2017
fixture, but started the return match, along with Ben Chilwell, five
months later. |
stadium notes: |
Jude Bellingham becomes the first teenager to play for
England ten times at the National Stadium. Harry Kane continues
as
record England goalscorer at the new National Stadium, now at 22, He has now
also scored in more matches at the Stadium—sixteen, to Rooney's
fifteen. He remains one behind Bobby Charlton as Wembley's record
goalscorer. |
manager notes: |
Southgate has only fielded an
older team once,
against Germany in March 2017 when they were on average, 27 years
and 356 days old. It is also Southgate's tenth
EC
match at Wembley, extending the record, two more than Alf Ramsey. |
team records: |
This is England's 75th
European Championship preliminary match victory out of 110 played.
Also their seventieth clean sheet. It is also their
ninetieth
victory across all European Championship matches out of 148. Their
85th clean sheet. The 350th victory whilst England was
under a
Conservative government. |
date notes: |
Their fifth home
match
on this date is also their fifth victory. This is England's
100th match played on a Sunday (W
47 D 27 L 26 F 165
A 110) and they are currently on a run of nine
home matches unbeaten on a Sunday, having not lost since November
2003. Harry Kane and Bukayo Saka have now
scored for England together in all of the
last
three matches that they have played on a Sunday. |
goal records: |
Harry Kane has now scored fifty England goals
under Gareth Southgate. Following Harry Kane's goal,
Tottenham
Hotspur FC players have now scored a record-breaking 258 goals of
the 2290 scored by England. |
Manager Gareth Southgate played for the England against Ukraine in their
very first meeting, May 2000. |
|
4-3-3 |
Pickford - Walker, Stones, Maguire, Chilwell
- Bellingham (Gallagher), Henderson, Rice - Saka,
Kane (Toney), Maddison (Grealish) |
Averages (Starting XI): |
Age |
27 years 144 days |
Appearances/Goals |
46.9 |
7.2 |
|
|
Rank |
FIFA (22
Dec'ber 2022)
26th
EFO ranking
Group Nine ELO rating
22nd |
Colours |
Made by Joma - Yellow crew-necked jerseys with yellow/blue
collar/cuffs with an outline of Ukraine territory graphic on front,
yellow shorts, yellow socks. |
Captain |
Oleksandr Zinchenko |
Interim manager |
Ruslan Petrovych Rostan 41 (29 October
1981), appointed 28 February 2023. Also in charge of the under-21's and FC Oleksandriya.
|
first
match, W 0 - D 0 - L 1 -
F 0 - A 2. |
Ukraine Lineup |
12 |
Trubin, Anatoliy
V. |
21 237 days |
1 August 2001 |
G |
FC
Shakhtar Donetsk |
4 |
0 |
21 |
Karavayev, Oleksandr
O.,
off 61st min. |
30 297 days |
2 June 1992 |
RB |
FC Dynamo Kyiv |
47 |
2 |
3 |
Svatok,
Oleksandr S. |
28 180 days |
27 September 1994 |
RCD |
SSC Dnipro-1 |
1 |
0 |
22 |
Matviyenko,
Mykola
O. |
26 101 days |
2 May 1996 |
LCD |
FC
Shakhtar Donetsk |
55 |
0 |
16 |
Mykolenko,
Vitaliy
S.,
off 62nd min. |
23 328 days |
29 May 1999 |
LB |
Everton FC,
England |
29 |
1 |
17 |
Zinchenko, Oleksandr
V. |
26 101 days |
15 December 1996 |
RM |
Arsenal FC, England |
53 |
8 |
20 |
Sudakov,
Heorhiy
V. |
20 206 days |
1 September 2002 |
CM |
FC
Shakhtar Donetsk |
4 |
0 |
6 |
Stepanenko, Taras
M.,
off 90th min. |
33 101 days |
8 August 1989 |
LM |
FC
Shakhtar Donetsk |
74 |
4 |
8 |
Malinovsky, Ruslan
V. |
29 99 days |
4 May 1993 |
RF |
Olympique de Marseille, France, on
loan from Atalanta BC, Italy |
52 |
7 |
|
69th min. for pulling back Bukayo Saka outside the Ukraine penalty area |
|
|
9 |
Yaremchuk,
Roman
O.,
off 74th min. |
27 119 days |
27 November 1995 |
CF |
Club Brugge KV, Belgium |
43 |
13 |
7 |
Mudryk, Mykhailo P.,
off 61st min. |
22 80 days |
5 January 2001 |
LF |
Chelsea FC, England |
9 |
0 |
Ukraine
Substitutes |
scoreline:
England 2 Ukraine 0 |
14 |
Buyalskyi, Vitaliy K., on 61st min.
(60:44) for Karavayev |
30 79 days |
6 January 1993 |
RB |
FC Dynamo Kyiv |
10 |
0 |
15 |
Tsyhankov, Viktor
V., on 61st min.
(60:44) for Mudryk |
25 131 days |
15 November 1997 in
Nahariya, Israel |
LF |
Girona FC,
Spain |
43 |
7 |
2 |
Sobol, Eduard
O., on 62nd min.
(61:11) for Mykolenko |
27 341 days |
20 April 1995 |
LB |
RC Strasbourg Alsace, France |
28 |
0 |
11 |
Dovbyk,
Artem
O., on 74th min. (73:14)
for Yaremchuk |
25 279 days |
21 June 1997 |
CF |
SSC Dnipro-1 |
15 |
6 |
10 |
Konoplyanka, Yevhen O., on 90th min.
(89:30) for Stepenenko |
33 186 days |
22 September 1989 |
LM |
MKS Cracovia SSA,
Poland |
87 |
21 |
result:
England 2 Ukraine 0 |
unused
substitutes: |
1-Andriy Lunin, 4-Eduard Sarapiy,
5-Serhiy Sydorchuk, 13-Denys Miroshnichenko, 18-Artem Bondarenko, 19-Oleksandr Pikhalyonok,
23-Mykita Shevchenko. |
Interim manager
Ruslan Rotan played for Ukraine against England in the
August 2004 friendly,
a
squad member in the April 2009,
and playing member of the
Ukraine victory in October 2009.
He was an
unused substitute at the Euro 2012 finals match.
He returned for the
September 2012 World Cup qualification match,
being on the end of Gerrard's elbow for the first of his two yellow cards.
Rotan was a
squad member for the return match a year later. |
|
4-3-3 |
Trubin - Karavayev (Buyalskyi), Svatok, Matvlyenko,
Mykolenko (Sobol) - Sudakov, Stepanenko (Konoplyanka), Zinchenko -
Malinovsky, Yaremchuk
(Dovbyk),
Mudryk (Tsyhankov) |
Averages (Starting XI): |
Age |
26 years 209 days |
Appearances/Goals |
33.7 |
3.2 |
|
After all that is going on in their own country, it was such a delight to welcome the
Ukraine National team to Wembley Stadium, and what a welcome the fans gave both
teams! It was a very emotional build up to the actual match, but it was important,
especially for England to focus on the job in hand. As it turned out they were not
distracted.
Gareth Southgate made several changes to the team that won so well in Italy three
days earlier, but such is the squad strength, he was able to bring in plenty of talent.
The match began tentatively, and it was all a bit scrappy in the early stages. One
Ukrainian shot was blocked before being collected by Jordan Pickford, and Harry
Kane went down in the box, though nothing was given. On ten minutes a free-kick
from James Maddison was cleared by the defence, and on the counter, only swift
defensive cover by Kyle Walker stopped a dangerous break.
Neither side could find any real rhythm in these early exchanges although two attacks
by Ukraine ended with shots well wide, although the second effort was offside
anyway. A shot came in at the other end and the goalkeeper, Anatoliy Trubin
fumbled it giving Maddison the chance to follow up. The keeper recovered to dive on
the ball as the Leicester player challenged, and was injured in the process. A free-
kick was given against Maddison, which seemed harsh. On 19 minutes England had
their first real effort on goal as Jordan Henderson won a corner and the kick was
cleared to Ben Chilwell who promptly centred back into the middle where Kane
managed to get in a header. Again, it was an easy save for the keeper.
It was obvious that Ukraine would defend in numbers and then looked to counter-
attack quickly. Most of the play was still a bit scrappy, with passes going astray from
both teams. Then a real chance for Kane as Henderson’s cross came in from the right
only for Kane to miss the ball completely when he might have done better. Kane fell
over, and when Jude Bellingham returned the ball across goal, Kane almost turned the
ball into the net from a prone position. Then a good exchange between Walker and
Bukayo Saka almost opened the Ukrainians up but a free-kick was awarded. When
the cross came in, Kane was again there, but this time he shot over, although replays
suggested he would have been given offside had it gone to VAR. Kane was yet to
find his shooting boots at this point.
It was sometimes painful to watch when Chilwell had possession as it was a case of
10% of his passes going forwards, and the other 90% went back towards his own goal.
He did improve that ratio later.
There was a sense after the half-hour that England were starting to find their feet and
in one attack on 36 minutes, three shots were fired in in quick succession, but all were
blocked by a determined defensive unit. A minute later though, and England found a
way through. Saka, who was increasingly influential, was found by a great pass from
Kane wide on the right. Saka then sent over a fine cross to the far post, and there was
Kane, yet again, to finish with a close range shot as he followed up. It was number 55
for the ‘Golden Boy’ as he increased his goals tally for England once more. Two
minutes later and England struck again.
Kane fed Henderson and the Liverpool player found Saka, wide on the right, but just
itching to attack the defenders. This time the Arsenal man cut inside and curled the
most exquisite left-footer into the far top corner for one of the best England goals seen
at Wembley for a long time. Immediately, Kane was in again, but this time Trubin
saved his shot. As the half drew to a close England superiority was beginning to show
more clearly and although Mykhailo Mudryk fired a shot wide there was little danger
for Pickford. To their eternal credit the Ukrainian fans in the stadium made for an
electric atmosphere and although their side were 2-0 down, they cheered them all the
way.
England started the second-half on the front foot and Bellingham, Saka and Maddison
all featured prominently in some good and clever attacks. At the other end the home
defence was in command and it must be said that Ukraine had little effect up front.
There was one decent attack, defended well by John Stones, and then, straight up the
other end and another cross by Saka should have been converted by Bellingham.
You sensed that if England scored the next goal the match would be over, but try as
they might, they could not force that third goal, despite being in total control of the
game. Credit though, does go to Ukraine, who never gave up and battled right to the
end. How could they not, when their crowd were so passionately encouraging. There
were some near misses, especially when a good free-kick routine set Saka up for
another curler, but this time it flew well over the top. Substitutes for both sides came
on to try and freshen things up, but England’s control meant that nothing much
changed. Ivan Toney came on for Kane and he immediately flicked the ball on to
Saka, but then Maddison mis-controlled the ball and the chance was lost. Jack
Grealish and Conor Gallagher came on for Bellingham and Maddison, who had both
played well, and Gallagher’s first touch almost brought a goal but the goalkeeper
saved well. Right at the end Harry Maguire had a free header from a corner but
headed over when it seemed easier to score.
Grealish also went close with one good effort, whilst at the other end Ukraine’s
powder-puff attack could make no impression on the England defence. My man of
the match was Kyle Walker who I thought had an excellent game, combining well
with Saka, and also defending expertly at times. He was always ready to take
possession too. Another good win for England, and just the tonic to back up the fine
win in Italy.
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