Today in the Slovak city of Trnava at Anton Malatinský Stadium, Ukraine's national team will play a formal home match for Euro-2024 qualification Group C against Malta (kick-off is at 7 PM Kyiv time).

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Starting lineup for Ukraine's national team: 12. Anatolii Trubin, 22. Mykola Matviienko, 13. Illia Zabarnyi, 4. Serhii Krivtsov, 17. Yurym Konoplia, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovskiy, 21. Georgii Sudakov, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko (c), 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 9. Vladyslav Vanat.

Substitutes: 1. Georgii Bushchan, 2. Eduard Sobolev, 3. Oleksandr Svynok, 5. Serhii Sidorchuk, 10. Mykhailo Mudryk, 11. Artem Dovbyk, 14. Vitaliy Buyalskyi, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 18. Oleksandr Timchik, 19. Danylo Ignatyenko, 20. Oleksandr Zubkov, 23. Andriy Lunin.

Of the players currently in Skopje, Vladyslav Kochergin and Nazarii Rusyn did not make it into the matchday squad.

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For today's match, the referee team from France led by Ruddy Buquet will officiate.

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Today's match in Ukraine will be broadcast on local public television channels and the MEGOGO media service channel «Football First».

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At Anton Malatinský Stadium in the Slovak city of Trnava, our national team has already played two matches.

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Today, Ukraine's national team went on a traditional walk the day before the match. Our team walked through the center of Trnava and near the hotel satisfied Ukrainian fans' requests for autographs and group photos.

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Today's match between Ukraine and Malta will be only the second meeting in history between these two teams.

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Today, 10,000 spectators are expected at Anton Malatinský Stadium. The match will be covered by 25 journalists and 10 photographers. Interestingly, there is not a single representative from Malta among them.

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Today's match, Ukraine will play in blue uniforms. The Maltese team will wear white.

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In the ranking published on April 6, today's opponent, Malta's team, is ranked 172nd. Ukraine's national team is in 30th place.

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Ukraine's squad for the match against Malta

1. Georgii Bushchan, 2. Eduard Sobolev, 3. Oleksandr Svynok, 4. Serhii Krivtsov, 5. Serhii Sidorchuk, 6. Taras Stepanenko, 7. Andriy Yarmolenko, 8. Ruslan Malinovskiy, 9. Vladyslav Vanat, 10. Mykhailo Mudryk, 11. Artem Dovbyk, 12. Anatolii Trubin, 13. Illia Zabarnyi, 14. Vitaliy Buyalskyi, 15. Viktor Tsygankov, 16. Vitaliy Mykolenko, 17. Yurym Konoplia, 18. Oleksandr Timchik, 19. Danylo Ignatyenko, 20. Oleksandr Zubkov, 21. Georgii Sudakov, 22. Mykola Matviienko, 23. Andriy Lunin.

Of the players currently in Trnava, Vladyslav Kochergin and Nazarii Rusyn did not make it into the matchday squad.