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NI draw Ukraine in the Play-Offs for Euro 2022
By: EalingGreen Date: March 5, 2021, 8:54 am
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Northern Ireland will face Ukraine in the two-legged play-off to
reach the Euro 2022 finals.
Kenny Shiels' side will travel to Ukraine in the first leg
before hosting the reverse fixture in their bid to reach a
first-ever major tournament.
The two legs are scheduled to take place between 7-13 April.
Ukraine, who played the Republic of Ireland in qualifying, are
24th in the world rankings, some 15 places above Northern
Ireland.
Russia were the second team out of the bowl after Ukraine,
however the Uefa Executive Committee had ruled the two countries
could not face each other in the play-offs. Russia were moved to
the next tie and Northern Ireland were then drawn to face
Ukraine.
HTML https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/56291967
Incidentally, Ukraine finished second in Group I behind unbeaten
Germany. The Republic of Ireland triumphed 3-2 in their first
meeting with Ukraine but lost the away fixture 1-0 to end their
hopes of qualifying:
HTML https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UEFA_Women%27s_Euro_2022_qualifying_Group_I
Meanwhile, someone in the BBC can't count, since Ukraine are 25
places above us in the rankings, not 15!
Switzerland 19th
Russia 23rd
Ukraine 24th
Czech Rep 27th
Portugal 30th
OWC 49th
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Re: NI draw Ukraine in the Play-Offs for Euro 2022
By: eightball Date: March 6, 2021, 1:23 am
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Fingers crossed for the women's team. Hopefully they can channel
a bit of Lyon 2016 in their performances over the two legs.
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Re: NI draw Ukraine in the Play-Offs for Euro 2022
By: nilvilla1982 Date: March 6, 2021, 4:26 am
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I see Shiels was on asking Stormont to allow the team an
exemption to get much needed training game etc before the games
in April.
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Re: NI draw Ukraine in the Play-Offs for Euro 2022
By: Simon-613 Date: March 17, 2021, 6:23 pm
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Think that's a good draw for them. They'll still be massive
underdogs but there were better teams that they could have got.
Hopefully we get to add a new name to the list of goal-scoring
heroes against Ukraine!
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Re: NI draw Ukraine in the Play-Offs for Euro 2022
By: EalingGreen Date: March 17, 2021, 6:33 pm
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[quote author=Simon-613 link=topic=298.msg3898#msg3898
date=1616023419]
Hopefully we get to add a new name to the list of goal-scoring
heroes against Ukraine!
[/quote]
Speaking of goals, we could do with another one like this from
Simone Magill:
HTML https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/av/football/56381432
Healyesque!
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