The national team of Ukraine held an official training session the day before their final match in the June cycle. As on the previous day, the blue-and-yellow trained at the municipal stadium "Wyzewa Łódź".

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Today, Ruslan Malinovskiy returned to the main group after feeling slight discomfort following the game against Armenia. Andriy Yarmolenko, Oleksandr Syrota and Eduard Sobol continue training with the main group. Overall, all players feel well – except for Roman Yaremchuk who injured his foot in the previous match, and Oleksandr Zubkov whose temperature has risen. These players missed today's training.

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The team held their pre-match training in the traditional intensive format – warm-up, agility and reaction speed exercises, ball control and game series.

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Based on today's session, the coaching staff will determine the lineup and tentative starting eleven for the match. The final decision regarding the 11 players who will start the game against Ireland at the LKS stadium will be made during the last training session before departure from the hotel.

Currently, 8 thousand tickets have been sold for the match, with 700 of them purchased by Irish fans.

Oleksandr Hlyvinskyi, press secretary of Ukraine's national team

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List of players in Ukraine's national team

Goalkeepers: Dmytro Ryndzak («Vorskla» Poltava), Andriy Lunin («Real Madrid», Spain).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavayev, Illia Zabarnyi, Oleksandr Syrota, Dmytro Popov (all — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Mykhailo Matviienko, Valeri Bondar (both — «Shakhtar» Donetsk), Vitaliy Mykolenko («Everton», England), Eduard Sobol («Club Brugge», Belgium), Taras Kachaраба («Slavia», Czech Republic).

Midfielders: Mykhailo Mudryk («Shakhtar» Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Viktor Tsygankov, Oleksandr Shaparenko (all — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Oleksandr Pichalenko (SK «Dnipro-1»), Andriy Yarmolenko («West Ham United», England), Oleksandr Zinchenko («Manchester City», England), Ruslan Malinovskiy («Atalanta», Italy), Oleksandr Zubkov («Ferencváros», Hungary), Danylo Ignatenko («Bordeaux», France).

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (SK «Dnipro-1»), Roman Yaremchuk («Benfica», Portugal), Danylo Sikan («Greuther Fürth», Germany).