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Euro 2024 (U-17): Ukraine's youth national team started the qualifying tournament with a goalless draw
Today, Ukraine's U-17 national team started their qualification round for Euro-2024 with a match against Finland.
Photo by the press service of the UAFA
Volodymyr Yezersky's wards are playing in group 3 against Germany, Finland, and Liechtenstein. The latter is the host of the mini-tournament. Today, Ukraine met Finland at the Blumenau Sportplatz stadium in Trizen.
The first half saw our opponents dominate with five shots on goal, one of which hit the post. Our team responded with only one shot. However, neither side managed to score a goal.
After halftime, Volodymyr Yezersky's wards became more active and opened the scoring in the 67th minute. Nazar Bondar capitalized on a cross from the left flank and scored from distance. However, this joy was short-lived as Matthias Siltanen scored from inside the penalty area three minutes later, equalizing for Finland — 1:1.
Six more minutes passed before Finland took the lead again. Toivo Mero attempted a long-range shot and hit the top corner of our goal — 2:1. Despite this, Ukraine managed to save the match with some help from their opponents. On the 87th minute, Ilari Kangasniemi scored an own goal — 2:2.
UEFA Euro 2024 (U-17). Qualifying Round. Group 3
15.10.2023
Finland (U-17) — Ukraine (U-17) — 2:2 (0:0)
Goals: Siltanen (70), Mero (76) — Bondar (67), Kangasniemi (87, own goal).
Finland (U-17): Maukonen, Le Goff-Konan, Kangasniemi, Sandler, Parkkila, Nzoko (Tulhemmo, 89), Multala (Weiss, 71), Siltanen, Koikkum'yaeki (Vesterbacka, 89), Dalduum (Mero, 71), Kirilov.
Ukraine (U-17): Petrenko, Sheliketa, Dytgariy (Dankovskyi, 85), Tretiak, Rybak, Olichenko (Garmash, 76), Soroka, Lysin, Bogdanov, Bondar (Ukhan', 76), Stepanov (Denisov, 56).
Yellow cards: Nzoko (26), Siltanen (82), Kangasniemi (86).
Germany — Liechtenstein — 6:0 (2:0)
Tournament Table
| Team | M | W | D | L | GA | Pts | |
| 1 | Germany | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6-0 | 3 |
| 2 | Ukraine | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2-2 | 1 |
| 3 | Finland | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2-2 | 1 |
| 4 | Liechtenstein | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0-6 | 0 |
18.10.2023
Germany — Finland (13:00)
Ukraine — Liechtenstein (17:30)
21.10.2023
Ukraine — Germany (13:00)
Liechtenstein — Finland (17:30)
Match times are in Kyiv time.
Group 1: Denmark, Austria, Georgia*, Lithuania.
Group 2: Sweden, Poland, Latvia, Moldova*.
Group 3: Germany, Ukraine, Finland, Liechtenstein*.
Group 4: Serbia*, Slovenia, Luxembourg, Azerbaijan.
Group 5: Portugal*, Czech Republic, Montenegro, Albania.
Group 6: France, Norway, Romania*, Estonia.
Group 7: Turkey*, Scotland, Belarus, Kazakhstan.
Group 8: Spain, Slovakia, North Macedonia, Malta*.
Group 9: England, Croatia*, Kosovo, Faroe Islands.
Group 10: Ireland*, Switzerland, Iceland, Armenia.
Group 11: Italy*, Greece, Northern Ireland, San Marino.
Group 12: Belgium, Israel*, Wales, Gibraltar.
Group 13: Hungary*, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Andorra.
* — hosts of mini-tournaments.
The two top teams in each qualifying group and the five best third-placed teams based on their results against the first and second-ranked teams will advance to the elite round, where they will face the Netherlands.
Matches in this stage will take place in March 2024. They will determine 15 teams that will join Cyprus in the final tournament, which runs from May 20 to June 5.
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