Preview: Saudi Arabia vs. Ukraine

June 19th, 2006 | by: WC Bob |

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Saudi Arabia vs. Ukraine, Hamburg, 18:00 CET
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THE BIG PICTURE
Ukraine laid a stinker in its World Cup debut, getting spanked 4-0 by Spain. Saudi Arabia earned a 2-2 draw against Tunisia in its first match. This is a critical game for both teams as the fight for one of the top two spots in the Group H table. Ukraine will be without experienced defender Vladislav Vashchyuk who is out after receiving a red card against Spain. Saudi Arabia will have to live with the words of its coach Marcos Paqueta who said: “Ukraine are a weak team and we have to try and get to them early. We have to take advantage of the way the fixtures have worked out for us.”

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Teams: Likely formation; shirt numbers; caps and goals, coach

Saudi Arabia (4-4-2): 21-Mabrouk Zaid (34-0); 2-Ahmed Dokhi (69-4), 13-Hussein Sulaimani (98-3), 6-Omar Al Ghamdi (39-5), 4-Hamad Al Montashari (33-6); 14-Saud Al Khariri (35-12), 8-Mohammed Noor (64-22), 18-Nawaf Al Temyat (57-13), 16-Khaled Al Thaker (15-2); 9-Sami Al Jaber (161-44), 20-Yassir Al Qahtani (44-33) Coach: Marcos Paqueta

Ukraine (4-4-2): 1-Oleksander Shovkovsky (69-0); 5-Volodimir Yezersky (25-1), 6-Andri Rusol (24-1), 13-Dmitro Chigrinsky (0-0), 2-Andri Nesmachny (50-0); 14-Andri Husin (65-9), 4-Anatoli Timoshchyuk (56-1), 8-Oleg Shelayev (20-0), 21-Ruslan Rotan (20-3); 7-Andriy Shevchenko (65-29), 10-Andri Voronin (33-4) Coach: Oleg Blokhin

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Ukraine

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Saudi Arabia

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OPKO

Correction:

Ukraine’s first half against Spain was a stinker.

Any chance of saving face in the second half were stolen by a pathetic call in the 46th minute by the Italian/Swiss referees (see other articles about betting scandals).
suraj

hey there i am not so sure for tonite game because i have been lost lots of cash but i fell tonite saudi will win… But watz the score tat i am not so sure.. They played a good game so im sure they will play better…