In this friendly match, Ukraine will return to Italy, at the Luigi Ferraris Stadium, on Thursday (11/10) early morning. In recent years, this is a year of poor performance for Italy. Arriving at the arena of world football they must be forced to leave.
This time they will host Ukraine, Ukraine is a country that also missed the 2018 Russia World Cup. After being declared a failed World Cup 2018 qualifier, Roberto Mancini is now trusted as their coach. Starting last May they won a 2-1 victory over Saudi ARB. But in the last four games they have never won, including at the start of last week's EUFA Nation.
The final result was at home when facing Poland, and lost to Portugal. That made them likely to be relegated to the second division of the League of Nations with Poland's away match this weekend.
The 2018 UEFA Nations League will be very attractive to the Ukrainian football team. The reason is, they have won two matches at the beginning of the opening when facing the Czech Republic and Slovakia. For victory they have the potential to win the group championship and are believed to qualify as a team that will compete in EURO 2020.
Next week, Ukraine will host the Czech Republic. They will really be determined to win the competition. Andriy Shevchenko as their coach believes they will win again when they face the Czech Republic next week.
Since Andriy Shevchenko coached their national team, they have not even received a defeat in the last seven games. This means that since 2018, the Ukrainian national team has never suffered defeat. This may be the initial capital to upload enthusiasm in this battle of friendship. Andriy Shevchenko is a former Ukrainian football player who is also famous in Italy.
While Italy have just scored one win since the end of qualifying to win the Russian World Cup. They only won one match in nine matches. This is the worst record for their size squad. This might happen because it's slow to get a classy young player. While some legendary players have hung a lot of shoes and moved to the international scene.
They are no longer feared by many opponents of the Azzuri team as in the 90s when Alessandro Del Piero and friends still strengthened the team. When Totti is still the goal machine for them. But now they are weak. The proof, from the last five games, none of them managed to break the opponent's goal.
Head to the head
They have met all last year and all Italian meeting matches can win it. And in 2011 the last brand met in a friendly match, the Azzurri were 1-0 ahead of Ukraine. Giuseppe Rossi managed to score one goal against Ukraine so the score ended 1-0 despite receiving a yellow card.
Score prediction
In the last four meetings, Italy has always been able to beat the Ukrainian defense. And scored nine goals and conceded just one goal in the last four games. Based on previous historical meetings and the last match I predict the final score of Italy 2 vs 0 Ukraine.
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