Azerbaijan – Ukraine. Forecast for the World Championship Qualification match

On September 9, at 7:00 pm, the Ukrainian national team will meet in Baku with the Azerbaijan national team. The match will be played as part of the second round of the World Cup in 2026.

Azerbaijan The wards of the famous Fernanda Santush in the selection for Mundial-2026 started worse. Azerbaijan met with Iceland at the exit and was defeated – 0: 5.

In the first half of the meeting, the Transcaucas were still holding on. The Vikings were able to sell the opponent’s defense only in the second compensated minute.

As it turned out later, the goal missed “in the locker room”, and in the second half of the meeting they missed four more times.

The hero of the match was Youganesson, on the account of which the double.

After a failure in the game with the islanders towards the mentor of the Azerbaijan national team, many stones fell. Not only the fans, but also the functionaries of the Azerbaijan Federation urged Santush to resign. Like, how much you can tolerate these walking.

Critics of the 2016 European Champion can be understood. Under the guidance of an experienced Portuguese specialist, the Azerbaijan team has never won. Moreover, in eleven duels under his leadership, the Caucasians suffered nine defeats. And those two matches in which they did not lose – these were “dry” draws with the national teams of Estonia and Latvia.

However, Santush stubbornly held for his chair. Like, there is a contract, and its conditions must be fulfilled.

But the day before the match with the national team of Ukraine Fernando Santush left the post of coach of the Azerbaijan national team. As the head of the National National Association of Farajullaev said, the parties dispersed “by mutual agreement.”

Azerbaijan will be awarded to the match against Sergei Rebrov’s team Azerbaijan, who is a mentor of the Azerbaijan youth team.

On the eve of the game with Ukrainians, the Azerbaijan national team has one personnel loss. Due to the injury, the training camp of the national team was forced to leave the forward Akhundzade.

Ukraine Our national team also failed in selection at the 2026 World Cup. The team of Sergei Rebrov in the nominally home duel gave way to a clear favorite of the group – the French national team.

In the first half of the meeting, “blue and yellow” failed to contrast the eminent opponent. But in the second half, after the “male conversation” in the locker room, the Ukrainians were noticeably encouraged. And they created two truly dangerous moments. But they could not squeeze the maximum of a minimum.

But the French, without much tension, scored two goals into our gates, not particularly worried when meeting her outcome. The noticeable class advantage of the Didier Deham team fell into the eyes.

Unfortunately, it must be acknowledged that France’s level is now clearly higher than Ukraine. Therefore, the defeat of “musketeers” is quite natural and objective.

For the match against Azerbaijan, the team of Sergei Rebrov was preparing in Poland. As with a duel against the French. In Baku, our delegation was served on September See September.

The personnel problems in our coaching staff did not diminish. Earlier, due to damage to varying degrees of complexity, Sergei Rebrov was missing Andrei Lunin, Vitaliy Mykolenko, Alexander Timchyk and Roman Yaremchuk.

After playing with the French, Viktor Tsigankov also got to this disappointing list.

The history of confrontation So far, opponents have not crossed in official matches. In 2006, two friendly matches were played. In Baku, the teams painted a zero draw, but in Kiev, our national team defeated the Transcaucasian 6: 0.

Forecast

If Fernanda Santoush continued to work in the Azerbaijan national team, then it could be safely argued that the national team of Ukraine would receive three points without much concern. Now, after Santousha is gone, Azerbaijan can contribute to, if not the second breath, at least the effect of novelty after the appointment of a new specialist.

However, Abbasov is unlikely to dramatically change the state of things in one day. And the class team of Ukraine is now higher than Azerbaijan. Therefore, suppose that guests will win with a difference of two balls.

Estimated syllables:

Azerbaijan: Magomedaliyev, Huseynov, Badalov, Mustafazade, Dashdemirov, Jafuliyev, Ibrahimli, Makhmudov, Nuriev, Dadashov, Emrella

Ukraine: Trubin, Konoplya, Matvienko, Zabar, Zinchenko, Kalyuzhny, Yarmolyuk, Zubkov, Sudakov, Gutsuliak, Dovbik