Ukraine did give two excellent performances in the World cup - playoffs vs Scotland and Wales despite not qualifying, but naturally there is the question of physical and mental exhaustion. Some of the Ukr players have not played much recently. Yet, they were a lot better than generally estimated in those two matches - both played away - that I do rate them still as a good team, and this match also being away does not mean much.

Ukrainian coach Petrakov is likely to bring in some fresh legs compared to the 1-0 loss in Cardiff - by an own goal! - but the nation were so proud of their team that for sure there will be a strong lineup, perhaps something like this:

Bushchan; Karavaev, Zabarnyi, Matvienko, Sobol; Zinchenko, Sydorchuk, Shaparenko; Yarmolenko, Dovbyk, Mudryk.

In that scenario Everton's Mykolenko would be replaced by Brugge's Sobol and Benfica player Yaremchuk by Mudryk.

The stats of Wales game looked like this:

So there is all the reason to consider Ukraina as unlucky not to qualify. Against Scotland Ukraine created 15 shots, and as Ireland tonight is same class or even a weaker outfit than those two we can expect some 15-20 Ukrainian goal attempts.

What is the class of the current Ireland team?

In the friendlies in March they drew 2-2 with Belgium and narrowly won weak Lithuania by 1-0, but last week in their Nation's league game away in Armenia they lost by 1-0, and rather deservedly so, another Armenian goal got disallowed after VAR. The coach Kenny will surely make changes to lineup, and one of the speculations is

Kelleher; Duffy, Collins, Egan; Coleman, Cullen, Hendrick, McClean; Ogbene, Keane, Robinson.

The defense is extremely experienced - or old and slow - depends how you want to see it.

Ireland do not create chances from open play easily, and even one Ukrainian goal is likely to bring at least one point. I believe to do score at least two, there is so much national pride at stake that they will take these friendly-like league seriously.

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乌克兰在世界杯上有两次出色的表现——季后赛对阵苏格兰和威尔士，尽管没有晋级，但自然存在身体和精神疲惫的问题。Ukr的一些球员最近没怎么上场。然而，他们在这两场比赛中表现得比一般人估计的要好得多——两场比赛都是客场比赛——我确实认为他们仍然是一支优秀的球队，而这场客场比赛也没有太大意义。

与0 - 1输给加的夫的比赛相比，乌克兰教练彼得拉科夫很可能带来一些新鲜的球员——一个乌龙球!但是国家为他们的球队感到骄傲，所以肯定会有一个强大的阵容，可能是这样的:

Bushchan;卡拉瓦耶夫、扎巴尔尼、马特维耶科、索博尔;Zinchenko、Sydorchuk Shaparenko;Yarmolenko、Dovbyk Mudryk。

在这种情况下，埃弗顿的米科连科将被布鲁日的索博尔取代，本菲卡的亚雷姆丘克将被穆德雷克取代。

威尔士比赛的数据是这样的:

因此，我们完全有理由认为乌克兰没能出线是不幸的。在对阵苏格兰的比赛中，乌克兰创造了15次射门机会，而今晚的爱尔兰与这两支球队水平相同，甚至比他们更弱，我们可以期待乌克兰15-20次的射门。

现在爱尔兰队是什么级别的?

在3月的友谊赛中，他们2-2战平比利时，并以1-0险胜弱小的立陶宛，但在上周的联赛中，他们客场1-0输给了亚美尼亚，这是理所当然的，亚美尼亚的另一个进球在VAR后被判无效。主教练肯尼肯定会调整阵容，其中一个猜测是

凯莱赫;达菲,柯林斯,伊根;Coleman, Cullen, Hendrick, McClean;Ogbene,基恩,罗宾逊。

防守是非常有经验的——或者是老而缓慢的——取决于你想怎么看它。

爱尔兰很难在公开比赛中创造机会，甚至乌克兰的一个进球都可能带来至少一分。我相信至少能进两球，这关乎到太多的民族自豪感，他们会认真对待这些友好的联赛。

预测比分0:2。