The Ukrainian national team will play against Scotland in the first play-off of the 2022 World Cup qualification. The match will take place on June 1 in Glasgow, starting at 21:45 Moscow time. Scotland – Ukraine: forecastbet, odds, statistics.
Scotland
The Scottish team played well in the main part of the qualifying tournament, taking second place in their group.
The Scots were only behind the strong Danish team, four points behind them.
At the same time, it is important to note here that in ten qualifying matches, Steve Clark’s team suffered only one defeat and conceded only seven goals. The result is really very worthy.
In March Scotland played two friendly matches. Both ended in a draw – first with Poland (1:1), and then with Austria (2:2).
Personnel situation: Arsenal defender Kieran Tierney will not help the Scots due to an injury. For Clark’s team, this is a serious loss. In addition, the Rangers midfielder Ryan Jack is forced to miss the upcoming match.
Ukraine
national team Ukraine due to well-known events, she found herself in the most difficult situation.
This year, only those Ukrainian footballers who play for European clubs participated in official matches. First of all, this Alexander ZinchenkoRuslan Malinovsky, Andrei Yarmolenko, Roman Yaremchuk, Vitaly Mikolenko and Eduard Sobol.
The rest had to limit themselves to only training and friendly matches, which, by the way, were not so many.
All predictions for the 2022 World Cup
The training camp of the Ukrainian team began in early May. Since then, she has played three control matches – against Borussia Mönchengladbach (2:1), Italian Empoli (3:1) and Croatian Rijeka (1:1). Good results, but the opponents still had problems with motivation.
Personnel situation: with the head coach of the Ukrainian national team Alexandra Petrakova there will be no problems with the choice of the starting line-up, all the main performers are ready to play.
Forecast and rate
You can bet on Scotland in this match for 2.41draw bookmakers offer for 3.22and the victory of Ukraine – for 3.62.
The Ukrainian team will be motivated like never before. And most likely, now it is not so important that many players had big problems with playing practice. In this situation, they will definitely find the strength to play the match at the highest level.
Of course, it will be difficult for the Ukrainians against the physically powerful Scotland, but their team is really more talented.
The hosts, by the way, will be very tired after the Champions League final Andy Robertson. And the attack of the Scots, perhaps, can be called a weak link in their team.
Rate – victory for Ukraine 3.62.
In case of victory, the Ukrainian team will play with Wales in the final of the joints.