Ukraine will welcome
Turkey at Valeri Lobanovskiy Stadium on wednesday night. The match will start at 21:00. The refree of the game is Darko Caferin from Slovenia Football Association.
Ukrayna is competing in the sixth group of the 2010 South Africa World Cup Qualifiying. In the group, they are sitting in the third position after England and Croatia. They have managed to defeat weak rivals in the first three matches; but then they could not get a victory against England and Croatia. They are generally sucessfull when they play friendly games. Here are those games:
06.02.2008 Cyprus - Ukraine : 1-1
26.03.2008 Ukraine - Serbia : 2-0
24.05.2008 Netherlands - Ukraine : 3-0
01.06.2008 Sweden - Ukraine : 0-1
20.08.2008 Ukraine - Poland : 1-0
19.11.2008 Ukraine - Norway : 1-0
10.02.2009 Ukraine - Slovakia : 3-2
11.02.2009 Serbia - Ukraine : 0-1
Ukraine Match Squad:
Goalkeepers: Andriy Pyatov (Shakhtar), Oleksandr Shovkovskiy (Dynamo)
Defence: Vitaliy Mandzyuk (Dynamo), Andriy Rusol (Dnipro), Oleksandr Kucher, Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Dmytro Chygrynskiy (Shakhtar), Grigoriy Yarmash (Vorskla)
Midfield: Oleh Husyev (Dynamo), Oleksiy Gai (Shakhtar), Evgen Levchenko (FC Groningen), Maksym Kalynychenko, Serhiy Nazarenko and Ruslan Rotan (Dnipro), Anatoliy Tymoschuk (Bayern Munih)
Forward: Volodymyr Homenyuk (Dnipro), Artem Milevskiy (Dynamo), Evgen Seleznyov (Dnipro), Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea)
Turkey is competing in the fifth group of 2010 South Africa World Cup Qualifiying; but their situation is not good. They have started with a victory against Armenia, then they have drawn to Belgium at home. They become happier with the home victory against Bosnia and Herzigovina; but then they faced an unexpected draw against weak Estonia on the road. They could also have nothing against Spain in two games. Here is their performance when they play friendly games.
06.02.2008 Turkey - Sweden : 0-0
26.03.2008 Belarus - Turkey : 2-2
20.05.2008 Turkey - Slovakia : 1-0
25.05.2008 Turkey - Uruguay : 2-3
29.05.2008 Finland - Turkey : 0-2
20.08.2008 Turkey - Chile : 1-0
19.11.2008 Austria - Turkey : 2-4
11.02.2009 Turkey - Ivory Coast : 1-1
02.06.2009 Turkey - Azerbaijan : 2-0
05.06.2009 France - Turkey : 1-0
Turkey Match Squad:
Goalkeepers: Volkan Demirel (Fenerbahçe), Rüştü Reçber (Beşiktaş)
Defence: Gökhan Zan, Servet Çetin, Hakan Kadir Balta, Sabri Sarıoğlu (Galatasaray), Gökhan Gönül, Önder Turacı (Fenerbahçe), İsmail Köybaşı (Beşiktaş), Ceyhun Gülselam (Trabzonspor)
Midfield: Arda Turan, Ayhan Akman (Galatasaray), Kazım Kazım (Fenerbahçe), Hamit Altıntop (Bayern Münih), Nuri Şahin (Borussia Dortmund), Tuncay Şanlı (Middlesbrough)
Forward: Nihat Kahveci (Beşiktaş), Sercan Yıldırım (Bursaspor), Halil Altıntop (Schalke 04)
The mutual fixtures between Ukraine and Turkey:
01.05.1996 Turkey - Ukraine : 3-2 (Friendly Game)
12.02.2003 Turkey - Ukraine : 0-0 (Friendly Game)
17.11.2004 Turkey - Ukraine : 0-3 (2006 World Cup Qualifiying Group Game)
07.09.2005 Ukraine - Turkey : 0-1 (2006 World Cup Qualifiying Group Game)
Infos, tables FIFA World Cup 2010 in South Africa
We advice you to bet on under 2,5 because of their game styles, squads and performances in the friendly games.
Tip : Under 2,5
Odds : 1,65
Bookmaker : Sportingbet
