The Ukrainian national team will play the semi-final play-off match of the 2026 World Cup qualifying tournament against Sweden on March 26. Well-known football expert Oleg Fedorchuk named his version the starting lineup of the “blue-yellows” if the match with the Swedes is tomorrow.

“The choice in this case is almost open,” Fedorchuk said in an exclusive interview with the website Meta.ua. – Trubin is at the door. Defense from left to right: Konoplya, Zabarny Matvienko, Mikolenko. In the center of the midfield are Kalyuzhny, Yarmolyuk, Sudakov. Tsygankov on the right, Zubkov on the left. There is Vanat at the end.

Let us also remind you that the winner of Ukraine-Sweden, the semi-final match of the decisive match to be played on March 31 to reach the 2026 World Cup final, will face the best team in the Poland-Albania match.

Captain and central defender of the Ukrainian national team Nikolay Matvienko In an exclusive interview for Sport.ua, he talked about the match against Sweden in the 2026 World Cup qualification play-offs:

“I think this is the strongest team we can get. Right now everyone is focusing on the situation of the Swedes. But our meeting will take place in two months. Everything can change. Sweden has a very strong squad and most of their players represent elite European clubs. They, like us, have the goal of reaching the World Championship, so we have a very tough match ahead of us.”

For me, the poor performance of the Swedes in the qualifying tournament means nothing. Every team can do their best in a match, even if it is an outsider, and Sweden is one of the strong European teams, that’s for sure. For the Ukrainian national team, this will be a match of life, like all previous matches. “After all, we understand that a war is going on in the country, and every victory, even on the sports front, brings joy to Ukrainians in such a difficult period.”

The match between Ukraine and Sweden will be played on March 26, 2026 at 21:45 Kiev time.

On March 26, the Ukrainian team will play the semi-final play-off match against the Swedish team in the World Cup qualifiers. Expectations from this confrontation in an exclusive interview with the site Spor.ua said the captain of our team Nikolay Matvienko.

“I think this is the strongest team we can get,” Matvienko said. – Right now everyone is focused on the situation of the Swedes. But our meeting will take place in two months. Everything can change. Sweden has a very strong squad and many of their players represent elite European clubs. They, like us, set the goal of getting to the World Championship, so a very tough challenge awaits us.

For me, the poor performance of the Swedes in the qualifying tournament means nothing. Every team can do their best in a match, even if it is an outsider, and Sweden is one of the strong European teams, that’s for sure.

For the Ukrainian national team, this will be a match of life, like all previous matches. After all, we understand that a war is going on in the country and every victory, even on the sports front, brings joy to Ukrainians in such a difficult period.