FT: Scotland 1-3 Ukraine
Scotland’s World Cup goals went up in flames after dropping 3-1 to Ukraine at Hampden Park.
A tragic night for Steve Clarke’s males marked an unbelievable Cinderella story for the guests, who performed their first official match after Russia’s unjust invasion of their homeland.
Oleksandr Petrakov’s males put the horrors of struggle behind them and gave their nation some main pleasure as they booked a spot on Sunday’s World Cup play-off last towards Wales in Cardiff.
The Ukrainians opened the scoring after 33 minutes when Ruslan Malinovskyi delivered a shocking lengthy ball from his personal half.
Malinovskyi discovered Andriy Yarmolenko who dinked the ball over Craig Gordon and sparked wild celebrations within the away stand in addition to Ukraine, the place some had been watching from bunkers.
Petrakov’s males doubled their lead after 49 minutes when Oleksandr Karavaev delivered a wonderful cross from the proper.
Karavaev discovered Roman Yaremchuk within the far put up the place he headed the ball to Gordon’s backside left nook after some poor defending by Scotland.
Clarke’s males bought again within the sport and rekindled their World Cup hopes within the 79th minute after some horrible goalkeepeing by Georgiy Bushchan, who failed to carry on to Callum McGregor’s shot.
The ball crossed the goaline earlier than Taras Stepanenko bought to clear it.
However that wasn’t sufficient for Scotland as Artem Dovbyk sealed his workforce’s place in Cardiff within the fifth minute of stoppage time after beating Gordon one-on-one following a by ball by Oleksandr Zinchenko
