Today in Glasgow at Hampden Park stadium, the Ukraine national team will meet Scotland's team in the semi-final of the World Cup 2022 qualification playoff (match start - 9:45 PM Kyiv time).

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Starting lineup for Ukraine's national team: 1. Georgiy Bushchan, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 22. Mykhailo Matviyenko, 13. Illia Zabarnyi, 21. Oleksandr Karavaev, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovskiy, 17. Oleksandr Zinchenko, 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko (c), 9. Roman Yaremchuk.

Substitutes: 2. Eduard Sobolev, 3. Valeriy Bondar, 4. Oleksandr Syrota, 5. Serhiy Sidorchuk, 10. Mykhailo Shaparenko, 11. Artem Dovbyk, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 14. Mykhaylo Mudryk, 18. Oleksandr Pichalenko, 19. Taras Kachaраба, 20. Oleksandr Zubkov, 23. Dmytro Riznyk.

Of the players currently in Glasgow, Danilo Sikan, Denis Popov, and Andriy Lunin did not make it to the official roster.

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At today's match, the referee team from the Netherlands will officiate, led by 39-year-old Danny Makkelie.

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The Ukraine national team has already played twice in Glasgow at Hampden Park stadium. While the first match is not very pleasant to recall, the second encounter was inscribed into our national team's history with golden letters.

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In the last 10 matches at Hampden Park stadium in Glasgow, Scotland's national team has conceded only once.

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Today, Ukraine's national team held a half-hour practice session on the field at Glasgow University Sports Center.

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The match will be broadcast live on the channel "Ukraine" in the airtime of the TV channel "Indigo TV" (temporary content transmitter for the channel "Ukraine") and the TV channel "Football 1". The text commentary of the meeting will be provided by the UAF website.

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For today's match, 47,000 fans of Scotland's national team and 3,000 supporters of our national team are expected, taking into account tickets purchased not only in the special Ukrainian sector at Hampden Park.

The game will be covered by 170 journalists and 40 photojournalists.

VAR system will be used during the match, but goal line technology will not be applied.

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In its history, Ukraine's national team has met Scotland's team twice. Both matches took place in the qualification tournament for Euro-2008.

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At today's meeting, it was decided that Ukraine's national team will play in yellow kits. Scotland’s team will wear blue.

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In today's match, a winner must be determined. If the game ends in a draw after regular time, two additional halves of 15 minutes each will be played. If the score is still tied after that, teams will compete in a penalty shootout.

The winner on June 5th at Cardiff's Millennium Stadium in the final match of the World Cup 2022 qualification playoff will face Wales for a place in Qatar.

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Official roster of Ukraine's national team (by numbers)

1. Georgiy Bushchan, 2. Eduard Sobolev, 3. Valeriy Bondar, 4. Oleksandr Syrota, 5. Serhiy Sidorchuk, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovskiy, 9. Roman Yaremchuk, 10. Mykhailo Shaparenko, 11. Artem Dovbyk, 12. Andriy Pyatov, 13. Illia Zabarnyi, 14. Mykhaylo Mudryk, 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 17. Oleksandr Zinchenko, 18. Oleksandr Pichalenko, 19. Taras Kachaраба, 20. Oleksandr Zubkov, 21. Oleksandr Karavaev, 22. Mykhailo Matviyenko, 23. Dmytro Riznyk.

Of the players currently in Glasgow, Danilo Sikan, Denis Popov, and Andriy Lunin did not make it to the official roster.