Vorskla Poltava – Arsenal: Europa League – live! | Soccer

A quite satisfactory half for the outside side, which now has 15 minutes of comfort with central heating to bask in the virtual heat of a comfortable lead.

45 + 1 minutes: There will only be a minute of rest, unless something exciting happens.

45 minutes: Elneny gives the ball this time, hitting it directly into Kulach who then runs away and, at about twenty meters and with grbad just empty between him and Petr Cech, savagely rejects a shot in the stands.

Elneny intercepts the ball in the middle of the field and pbades quickly to Willock, who approaches the surface and, with Dallku who recoils, gently raises the ball at the bottom of the post!

40 minutes: Chesnakov tripped Maitland-Niles and Ramsey with the same action on the center line, a spectacular achievement. The referee gives only one free kick.

39 minutes: Vorskla takes a free-kick on the right. Although he is not a very good player, Smith-Rowe stands out and the ball misses him and is only too close to Kolomoets. Cech collects.

36 minutes: A quick change for Vorskla: Careca, a powerful Brazilian striker, is activated and Sapai is disabled.

33 minutes: Now, Nketia goes into the area, Shust's hares into no-man's land, and Nketia points him out of his line, becomes over-excited, and throws a wide shot.

33 minutes: On the free kick, Lichtsteiner plays in Willock, who shoots in the direction of the next post that Shust saves.

32 minutes: Sharpar now has a box to knock Willock from behind, though it looks unintentional.

29 minutes: Skliar climbs up and down the right flank of Vorskla fouling people. First, Smith-Rowe stays on the ground, then Maitland-Niles is bundled up. The man is waging an individual war against this double name, but the referee ends up putting an end to his reign of chaos and also puts him on notice.

Ramsey takes a slow lead over the Pogba-esque race before Shust moves slightly to his right and the ball whistles to his left! Shust is not happy with his momentum, but the referee ignores his complaints.

26 minutes: Ramsey dances around the penalty area for a moment before Perduta drops to the ground, and the referee whistles!

25 minutes: Arsenal hangs up the ball for a while, even though he spends most of his time pbading it to the back. Finally, they push the left wing, go to the edge of the surface, then turn around and give it back to their defense.

23 minutes: Maitland-Niles rushes into the box, pbades a defender but a heavy touch sends the ball into Shust's arms.

21 minutes: There was a period of extended play in the Arsenal half game, but never very close to the penalty area.

18 minutes: Arsenal wins a free kick just outside the right corner of the box and Ramsey hits the bar.

17 minutes: The Qarabag have equalized against Sporting and, in its place, Arsenal will win the group with a game to lose. They are now five points ahead of Sporting, who was in second place even though I stupidly said they took the lead.

15 minutes: To close! Sharpar plays Kulach, but he's just offside. It was just as good as he was running in the area and the situation seemed extremely dangerous, even though, at the whistle, he threw himself to the ground in an extremely optimistic attempt to win a penalty kick, so that nothing would probably have come there.

14 minutes: Sapai sends a tasty center from the right, but Jenkinson does not play.

11 minutes: Ramsey and Nketiah were very well connected to the edge of the box, but Arsenal man then met a couple of defenders but failed to lose the ball. One of them finally managed to put him in touch with a goal. Emile Smith-Rowe, and he put it in an unguarded net!

And with the shattering inevitability, Arsenal scores immediately.

10 minutes: Arsenal has yet to do much in the direction of the attack in this opening period. They probably had an equal share of ball possession, but Vorskla got things done faster and with more ambition.

8 minutes: Meanwhile, in the other Group E match tonight, Sporting quickly took the lead against Qarabag. As it stands, the Portuguese team is leading the group. UPDATE: It was not true even then.

6 minutes: More chances! The corner goes to Chesnakov, beyond the far post, who controls and sends a shot so imprecise that he finds himself at the feet of the corner shooter, who returns him to the area where Chesnakov has a low shot that Cech holds on the second attempt.

5 minutes: Now Vorskla wins a corner but it could have been more, at least until Jenkinson took the lead on Kulach

3 minutes: Luck! He played to the first post, where Kolomoets takes advance on Elneny and has a free swing at the ball, which he launches into orbit.

2 minutes: An early stop while Sklyar is being treated for an injury sustained while kicking an Arsenal player. The referee gave a free kick for that, though.

1 minute: Peeeeeep! The house side (well, closer to the house) starts the game.

And they went out! Hands clenched, gloves donned and ready for action.

The players are in the tunnel! It is a very large, expansive rug made of fake grbad. Plus a living room really, but without the seating options you normally get in one of these.

Apparently, the temperature will reach -12 ° C tonight, it's as good as the players packed their bags.

Unai Emery has a brief overview before the match:

For us, every game is very important and we think it is only one title and one way for the Champions League. Today, the most important thing is to give players chances. These players can help us in other matches. We are only thinking of winning today.

Latest news: Vorskla Poltava has never played against an English team (except against Arsenal in September, where she lost 4-2). Arsenal's record against the Ukrainians is almost positive: P11 W5 D2 L4: they are undefeated at home, but without a win.

Here they are!

Vorskla: Shust, Perduta, Dallku, Chesnakov, Artur, Sapai, Sklyar, Sharpar, Rebenok, Kulach, Kolomoets. Subs: Tkachenko, Sergiychuk, Mysyk, Nicholas Careca, Chyzhov, Sakiv, Kane.
Arsenal: Cech, Lichtsteiner, Jenkinson, Holding, Maitland-Niles, Guendouzi, Ramsey, Elneny, Willock, Nketiah, Smith-Rowe. Subs: Martinez, Mkhitaryan, Gilmour, Medley, Osei-Tutu, John-Jules, Saka.
Arbitrator: Bartosz Frankowski (Poland).

The Press Association has not yet clbadified the full teams but their reaction to them:

Arsenal offered a first start to teenager striker Eddie Nketiah while Unai Emery had made 10 changes for his Europa League clash against Vorskla Poltava in Kiev.

The Group E team was moved 185 miles east of Poltava to the Olympic Stadium in the capital. Some parts of Ukraine are subject to martial law as political tensions continue to mount.

Only Rob Holding kept his place after Sunday's Premier League win at Bournemouth while 19-year-old Nketiah led the line with his fellow Academy graduate, Joe Willock, also had a rare chance of winning. 39; impress. Ainsley Maitland-Niles was also registered for his first start since the opening day of the season, while Petr Cech returned in goal to the Gunners captain.

This tie-they-do-not-go, where-will-they-related could prove more interesting as football is going on than while the world was waiting with a very vaguely baited breeze to see its own. it was going to happen in the first place. Among all the reasons that the football world has ever seen to change the venue of a football game "the sudden introduction of martial law", which was forced by the hand of UEFA , must be among the most outstanding – other appointments in real life have been warmly welcomed – and Among the big issues of the night, there is precisely the percentage of posts occupied by Olimpiyskiy stadium in Kiev, which can accommodate up to 70,050 people, given the very short time limit, the fact that Vorskla is 350 km from Poltava and normally plays in a stadium that can accommodate 24,795 people. but for the average championship game draws a paltry 3,395, which is about 100 more than the English club's fifth-ranked Hartlepool United.

Vorskla was visibly unhappy with the site change, pointing out on Twitter that although they normally play in green and white, their current mood was such that they would be best represented by an extremely strange fox:

Now, we have to wait to see if they are able, ahem, to overthrow a young and unknown side of Arsenal, who will not understand Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Mesut Ozil and Lucas Torreira, all of whom have stayed home, but perhaps Charlie Gilmour, Dejan Iliev, Jean-Jules Tyreece, Medley Zech, Emile Smith-Rowe, Joe Willock, Jordi Osei-Tutu, Bukayo Saka and Dominic Thompson.

Some of these names will be new to some readers, but do not worry. You may not know anything about Zech Medley, but here's a medley Beck, which is almost the same thing: