The national team of Ukraine in the first match of the group stage was made by a rescue cabecus and played a draw with the team of Azerbaijan (2: 2).
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The Ukrainian team came out for a match against one of the leaders of the European rating-the winner of the CHE-2022.
Blue and yellow most of the game time was spent at the beginning of the match. The wards of the playing coach Vitaliy Melnik missed two balls in the first half (0: 2).
Oleksandr Tarasyuk played one ball before a break (1: 2). And in the second half, Serhiy Kuchuk leveled the bill, realizing the penalty (2: 2).
The match ended in a draw, although the statistics showed a great advantage of Azerbaijan (35-9 by blows, 19-5 by blows into a plane, 8-0 at angular).
In the second match of the Group Round of Games of Nations on April 30 at 19:30 Ukraine will play with Slovakia.
To break into the semifinals, blue and yellow must be held one of the first two places in your trio. In another group of struggle to reach the 1/2 finals, the national teams of Hungary, Poland and Belgium will lead.
The next day, May 1, there will be a playoffs: match for 5th place, semi-final matches, bronze and gold matches.
Nations games are an important stage of preparation for the World Cup 2025 in mini-football, which will host Baku in May and June. Blue and yellow at the group stage will play against Georgia (May 21), Turkey (May 23), Hungary (May 25).
Mini-football. Nations Games 2025
April 30 2025, Kosice (Slovakia)
16:45. Ukraine – Azerbaijan – 2: 2
Goals: Alexander Tarasyuk, 18, Sergey Kuchuk, 41 (PEN) – Ravan Karimov, 6, Muhammad Khalilov, 8
Ukraine: Alexey Kazakov (goalkeeper), Vitaliy Melnyk (playing coach), Christian Mandyuk, Alexander Tarasyuk, Andriy Slinkin, Nikita Sinitsyn, Denis Tokar, Sergey Kuchuk, Vitaliy Bukhvak (goalkeeper), Oleg Bazhan, Danil Sadik.
Warehouses of groups:
- Group A: UkraineAzerbaijan, Slovakia
- Group B: Hungary, Poland, Belgium
Group a. April 30
- 16:45. Ukraine – Azerbaijan – 2: 2
- 19:30. Slovakia – Ukraine
- 22:15. Slovakia is Azerbaijan
Group B. April 30
- 15:30. Poland is Belgium
- 18:00. Hungary – Poland
- 20:45. Belgium – Hungary
Semi -finals and finals – May 1
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