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The national team of Ukraine on the road beat the Finns

The team of Andriy Shevchenko in a fighting match took away from Tampere three points.

A third victory in the qualifying round for the world Cup “blue and yellow” brought a little coaching Shevchenko in the 65th minute coach guests put forward of “Dynamo” Artem Besedin, and that after 10 minutes he headed in a cross of Yaroslav Rakitskiy. Besedina debut goal in the national team was victorious.

The main event match fell in the second half. On 51-th minute Samir Nasri put the ball into an empty net after a shot by Ruslan Malinovsky and the savestate goalkeeper of Finns. After the third time, the hosts have won back – substitute Joel Pohjanpalo put the ball in the net after unsuccessfully cutting Rakitskiy.

Thanks to today’s success of the national team of Ukraine at least for a few hours rose to second place in their qualifying group. Tonight Iceland will accept Croatia and Turkey will play against Kosovo.

Finland – Ukraine 1:2
Goals: Pohjanpalo, 71 — Linnet, 51, Besedin, 75

Finland: Gradecki — Arkivuo, Ojala, Moisander, Raitala Lam, Yagoubi — Lod (Jensen, 68), Hämäläinen, Dropped (Markkanen, 84) — Pukki (Pohjanpalo, 68)
Ukraine: Pyatov — Butko, Ordets, Rakitskiy, Matvienko — Malinowski, Stepanenko, Yarmolenko, Kovalenko (Shepelev, 76), Linnet (Sable, 86) — Seleznyov (Besedin, 64)

Warning: Lam, Yagoubi — Rakytskyy Konoplyanka, Kovalenko, Shepelev

Standings: Croatia – 13, Ukraine – 11, Iceland – 10, Turkey – 8, Finland, Kosovo – 1.

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