The blue-and-yellow team has already arrived for their second morning training session at the small but quiet base of FC «Brentford». Twenty-three players participated in the training, twenty of whom were field players. Serhiy Sydorchuk and Viktor Tsygankov got a bit chilled out, so doctors advised these players to stay in the hotel to normalize their well-being.

Photos by Pavel Kubanov

Since Andriy Yarmolenko continues to work on an individual schedule, the coaching staff used playing conditions for the assistant coach Serhiy Kравченко in order to equalize the teams during game series. Thus, for Serhiy, who officially retired as a player not long ago, there was a peculiar return to the national team not only in the role of a coach.

Photos by Pavel Kubanov

After the warm-up and square game, the team moved on to work through the structure of play and execute tactical tasks in a game series format.

After the national team training, player of FC «Brentford» and Ukraine youth team Yegor Yarmoluk, who is currently recovering from an injury, came to observe. After the session, coach Ruslan Rotan approached him to inquire about his young compatriot: Yegor will start working on a running track this week after completing his course of treatment.

Photos by Pavel Kubanov

After the training, interim head coach Ruslan Rotan met with media representatives in the conference room of the «Brentford» training base.

Tomorrow, the national team will play a training match against «Brentford». The game will be closed to fans and media, but its results and video clips will be available on UAF resources after the fact.

Ukraine National Team Roster

Goalkeepers: Andriy Lunin («Real» Madrid, Spain), Anatoliy Trubin («Shakhtar» Donetsk), Mykita Shevchenko («Oleksandria»).

Defenders: Oleksandr Karavaev, Dmytro Popov (both — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Mykola Matviyenko («Shakhtar» Donetsk), Vitaliy Mykolenko («Everton» Liverpool, England), Eduard Sobolev («Strasbourg», France), Oleksandr Svytok, Eduard Sarapiev (both — «Dnipro-1» Dnipropetrovsk), Dmytro Mykhaylichenko («Oleksandria»).

Midfielders: Taras Stepanenko, Georgiy Sudakov, Artem Bondarenko (all — «Shakhtar» Donetsk), Serhiy Sydorchuk, Vitaliy Buyalskiy (both — «Dynamo» Kyiv), Oleksandr Pichalnyk («Dnipro-1» Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Yarmolenko («Al-Ain», UAE), Ruslan Malinovskiy («Olympique» Marseille, France), Oleksandr Zinchenko («Arsenal» London, England), Viktor Tsygankov («Girona», Spain), Mykhaylo Mudryk («Chelsea» London, England), Yevhen Konoplyanka («Cracovia» Krakow, Poland).

Forwards: Roman Yaremchuk («Brugge», Belgium), Artem Dovbyk («Dnipro-1» Dnipropetrovsk).

Oleksandr Hlyvinets, press secretary of the national team