The Ukrainian national team arrived in Yerevan after the postponed Nations League match with Scotland. The Blue-Yellows departed from Glasgow at two o'clock local time and, after a five-hour flight, arrived in the Armenian capital at almost 10 a.m. Thursday (the time difference is three hours). Here, the Ukrainian national team will play the next match of the League of Nations next Saturday - against the Armenian team.
Team of Ukraine in Yerevan22 players arrived in Yerevan from Glasgow: Anatoly Trubin went to help the Ukrainian youth team, which will play the first match of the Euro 2023 playoffs with Slovakia on September 23, and Viktor Kovalenko returned to his club to treat damage to the adductor muscle, which requires up to two weeks recovery. Also tonight, Eduard Sarapiy arrives at the camp of the Ukrainian national team.
At the same time, microdamage to Vitaliy Mykolenko, which was previously reported, turned out to be not serious - the team's doctors removed a slight inflammation of the muscle, and today the defender has already had a training session in the general group. Also returned to training in the national team and goalkeeper Evgeny Volynets, who, due to the lack of a British visa, spent several days in Warsaw, and the day before he flew to Yerevan and waited for the team at the hotel.
The training of the Ukrainian national team itself took place on the field of the technical center of the Academy of the Football Federation of Armenia. The occupation of the "blue-yellow" was accompanied by strong winds and rain. Locals say that there has not been such rain in Yerevan for three months.
So the Ukrainians spent the recovery session under a cold natural shower, which, after a long flight and a painful defeat, should wash away the remnants of fatigue and sadness. Head coach Alexander Petrakov had his own interpretation of the sharp climate change: “There is no punishment without guilt,” the coach noted, urging the guys to work hard and breathe in the middle mountains.
This concerned the group of collections that came on as a substitute or did not play in the match with Scotland. Today, the coaching staff divided the outfield players into two groups of 10 people each. The starting lineup of the match with the Scots made a 20-minute run, after which they went to the hotel for recovery (sauna and pool).
Another dozen plus three goalkeepers performed a warm-up, worked in the square, and then played "five on five" in the series. Moreover, the game seemed quite rich in terms of goals, at the end the teams constantly exchanged effective attacks, so they had to play to the goal: Roman Yaremchuk stopped the fierce confrontation, and after him the whole training with the final blow.
The Blue-Yellows have very little time to recover. Tomorrow the national team will have pre-match events: at 16.30 local time a press conference of the head coach and player of the team will begin, and at 17.00 there will be a training session on the field of the Vazgen Sargsyan Republican Stadium, where the match with the Armenian national team will take place.
