The Ukrainian youth national team, having defeated the Albania team 5:0 in the last match of the qualifying tournament for Euro 2006, took second place in its qualifying group and won the right to playoff matches, in which it will try to earn a ticket to the continental championship.
The Ukrainian team was brought victory by accurate strikes from representatives of 5 different clubs who at one time or another represented Kyiv's "Dynamo" and Donetsk's "Shakhtar".
Already in the fourth minute of the match, the score was opened with a header by former Shakhtar player and now footballer of Zaporizhzhia's "Metalurh" Dmytro Chyhrynskyi. In the 21st minute, Oleksandr Yatsenko from Kharkiv's "Arsenal" doubled the score with a "scissors" kick.
In the last minute of the first half, after a pass from Pukanych, Artem Milevskyi from Kyiv's "Dynamo" scored.
In the second half, two more goals flew into the Albania national team's net. In the 56th minute, the fourth goal into the visitors' net was scored by "Shakhtar" forward Ruslan Fomin, who took advantage of a pass from Milevskyi, and four minutes later Adrian Pukanych expertly executed a free kick and the score became 5:0.
Group 2
Ukraine (U-21) - Albania (U-21) - 5:0 Goals: Chyhrynskyi 4, Yatsenko 21, Milevskyi 45, Fomin 56, Pukanych 60 Ukraine: Piatov, Yatsenko (Nevmyvaka 69), Fomin (Feshchuk 66), Chyhrynskyi, Oberemko, Pukanych (Pivnenko 73), Milevskyi, Cheberyachko, Yarmash, Maksymov, Sytnyk. Albania: Gjandera, Pashaj, Muca, Ndreka, Hodo (Mile 65), Lila, Kacani (Arapi 46), Capja (Gjihani 46), Allaci, Salihi, Veliaj.
Tournament standings. 1. Denmark - 25 points (10 matches) 2. UKRAINE - 23 (12) 3. Turkey - 18 (11) 4. Greece - 17 (10) 5. Georgia - 11 (11) 6. Albania - 8 (11) 7. Kazakhstan - 6 (11)