Winner Takes All as Wales and Ukraine Meet for a Place at the 2022 World Cup
Wales vs Ukraine - 05/06/2022
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There is one place remaining at the 2022 World Cup for a European team and on Sunday the 5th of May Wales and Ukraine will meet to find out which team will travel to Qatar in November.
The game will be played at the Cardiff City Stadium, giving the Welsh home advantage but there are sure to be millions of people cheering on Ukraine around the world.
Wales come into the match on the back of a 2-1 loss at Poland in the Nations League on Wednesday night.
Wales selected a mostly second XI for the game and took the lead early in the second half. Poland scored the equaliser in the 72nd minute and pushed for a winner, which came in slightly fortunate circumstances with 5 minutes remaining on the clock.
That result was the first defeat for Wales in 10 fixtures. They were on a 9 match unbeaten run going to Poland and have defeated Belarus (twice), Estonia, and Austria plus held Belgium at home in World Cup qualifying.
Home form shows Wales are undefeated in their last 18 games. They were undefeated at home throughout their World Cup qualifying campaign, winning 3 and drawing 2 of their 5 fixtures.
Trends show there have been under 2.5 goals scored in 6 of Wales 8 most recent home matches, including friendlies and World Cup qualifiers.
Ukraine travel to the Welsh capital on a high following their tremendous 3-1 victory over Scotland at Hampden Park on Wednesday night. Ukraine were the better team for much of the match and opened the scoring after 33 minutes.
In what was a big blow to Scotland, Ukraine scored a second goal just after half-time and the hosts struggled to get a grip of the match. Ukraine sealed the win in added time with a third goal.
That result means Ukraine are undefeated in their last 9 games, including their recent friendlies. They have defeated Finland, Bosnia, and Scotland in World Cup qualifying and all 3 matches were played away.
Ukraine enjoyed a strong World Cup qualifying campaign and remained undefeated in their 9 fixtures, drawing with France both home and away.
Trends show Ukraine have scored 2 or more goals in each of their last 4 away World Cup qualifying games.
Team news and Wales should be at full strength for this match. That means Ben Davies, Joe Rodon, Connor Roberts, Aaron Ramsey, Joe Allen, and Gareth Bale will all come into the starting XI.
Ukraine are unlikely to make many changes from the team that started against Scotland. If everyone is fit, the starting XI should be the same.
This is going to be a tense game, with the ultimate prize of playing at the World Cup on the line. Both teams can score goals and we expect to see them both find the back of the net. That could lead to extra-time and the possibility of a nerve-racking penalty shootout to seal a place at the 2022 World Cup.
Home team
Away team
Pred
Correct score
Avg. goals
Weather conditions
Coef.
Score
Live
coef.
WCQ
274825
X
2 - 2
2.73
13°
3.00
2.70
3.00
2.75
no
no
no
1 - 0(1 - 0)
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