Ukraine's head coach drops five players ahead of crucial match with Iceland

Winner of the Ukraine - Iceland match will go to the European Championship
Winner of the Ukraine - Iceland match will go to the European Championship

Lineup of the Ukrainian national team for match against Island for the 2024 European Football Championship has been announced, Ukrainian Football Association reported on March 26.

Notably, Girona midfielder Viktor Tsygankov, who was absent from the list of players for the previous match against Bosnia due to injury, was included in the lineup.

Lineup of Ukraine's national team:

Goalkeepers: Georgiy Bushchan (Dynamo), Anatoliy Trubin (Benfica), Andriy Lunin (Real Madrid)

Defenders: Oleksandr Tymchyk (Dynamo), Mykola Matvienko, Yukhym Konoplya, Valerii Bondar (all - SC Shakhtar), Ilya Zabarnyi (AFC Bournemouth), Vitalii Mykolenko (Everton), Maksym Taloverov (LASC), Bohdan Mykhailichenko (Polissia)

Midfielders: Heorhiy Sudakov, Oleksandr Zubkov (both Shakhtar), Volodymyr Brazhko, Mykola Shaparenko (both Dynamo), Viktor Tsygankov (Girona), Serhiy Sydorchuk (Westerlo), Ruslan Malinowski (Genoa), Oleksandr Zinchenko (Arsenal), Mykhailo Mudryk (Chelsea)

Forwards: Artem Dovbyk (Girona), Roman Yaremchuk (Valencia), Vladyslav Vanat (Dynamo)

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Not included in the lineup for game: Oleksandr Karavayev, Denys Popov (both Dynamo), Oleksandr Pikhalenok, Oleksiy Hutsulyak (both Dnipro-1), Danylo Sikan (Shakhtar).

The match between Ukraine and Iceland will take place on March 26 in Wroclaw, Poland, at 21:45 PM EET.

Earlier, the national team of Ukraine defeated Bosnia and Herzegovina (2: 1) in the semifinals of the Euro 2024 playoffs.

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