Well-known Ukrainian journalist Artem Frankov shared his prediction for the match of the Ukrainian national team in the League of Nations against Armenia, which will take place tomorrow in Yerevan.
Artem Frankov“If during the matches with Scotland I literally shouted that in order to succeed our team needed to study the opponent more carefully, to the smallest detail, and the defeat was the result of not learning, then with the Yerevan visit the situation is somewhat different.
Of course, it is necessary to study the Armenians, but in terms of level, we must beat this old, old enemy of ours in any case. Moreover, the tournament situation categorically requires this - after all, if we win, we can return to the first place in the group (and then a draw will suit us in the last match with Scotland), and any failure threatens to make the game of the last round meaningless. Let me remind you that in June, on a nominally home field in Poland, Ukraine without any problems, however, with good luck, beat Armenia with a score of 3:0.
In general, we can safely say that there are no European-level players in the current team of Joaquin Caparros - Henrikh Mkhitaryan completed his performances for the national team at around 95/32. Cologne striker Sarkis Adamyan has never sparkled in the national team (34/2), besides, he is not among those called up for current matches. Unless, with a big stretch, something shines in the attack, where Barseghyan from the Bratislava Slovan and Bichakchyan from the Szczecin Chase play.
The level of the legion of naturalized footballers clearly shows that they are not Diego Rossi (the Uruguayan forward of Fenerbahce - after Marahlyan's mother), and surprises from this side should not be expected. However, extreme caution should be exercised - with courage and freshness, the Armenians may well cause serious trouble to any defense, and Scotland is well aware of this, although they won in Yerevan with a score of 4: 1.
The Caparros players have big problems with the implementation, but they tend to suddenly disappear in individual matches. So, in the first round, Armenia beat Ireland at home with a score of 1:0 thanks to a goal from Krasnodar's Spertsyan.
Zabarny will return to us after the disqualification, plus Mikolenko recovered, which will allow us to radically strengthen the defense. Trubin, the hero of the match in Glasgow, was sent to strengthen the youth team - they believed that Lunin, Riznyk and Volynets (the latter was not in Britain - they did not manage to get a visa) were enough. Sarapiy was called up from Dnipro-1 (a nominal defensive midfielder had recently registered as a center back), and Kovalenko was finally sent to his Spezia for treatment - there was no hope of restoring Viktor in time. Surely Alexander Petrakov will take other measures of a rotational nature, related both to the disastrous performance in Glasgow and the need to play three matches in six days.
Be that as it may, the Scottish pogrom should have thoroughly cleansed any, even the most arrogantly polluted brains. In general, we remain optimistic. At least following the bookmakers, who definitely consider 0:1 or 0:2 to be the most likely outcome,” Frankov said.
