Euro 2008 Qualification: Scotland vs. Ukraine
{{date|October 13, 2007}}

{{footballbox|
date=<small>October 13, 2007<BR>15:00 (UTC)|
team1={{w|Scotland national football team|Scotland}}|
score=3–1|
team2={{w|Ukraine national football team|Ukraine}}|
report=[http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83993/report=ev.html Match Report]|
goals1=Miller {{Goal|4|3}}<BR>McCulloch {{Goal|10|1}}<BR>McCulloch {{Booked|45'+4}}<BR>Ferguson {{Booked|45'+4}}<BR>McCulloch {{suboff|60}}<BR>Dailly {{subon|60}}<BR>McFadden {{Goal|68|4}}<BR>Miller {{Booked|72}}<BR>Brown {{suboff|76}}<BR>Maloney {{subon|76}}<BR>McFadden {{suboff|80}}<BR>O'Connor {{subon|80}}<BR>O'Connor {{Booked|89}}|
goals2={{Booked|3}} Nesmachniy<BR>{{Booked|15}} Shevchenko<BR>{{Goal|24|4}} Shevchenko<BR>{{Booked|37}} Vorobey<BR>{{suboff|46}} Gusev<BR>{{subon|46}} Rotan<BR>{{suboff|64}} Vorobey<BR>{{subon|64}} Nazarenko<BR>{{Booked|70}} Rotan<BR>{{suboff|73}} Tymoschuk<BR>{{subon|73}} Shelayev|
stadium={{w|Hampden Park}}, [[Glasgow]]|
attendance=51,366|
referee=Peter Vink}}
[[Scotland]] took a step closer to qualifying for [[UEFA Euro 2008|Euro 2008]] as a 3-1 win against [[Ukraine]] kept them top of Group B in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. The loss for Ukraine takes their tragic number down to 5 and could be officially be eliminated by the end of play at the end of the day.

Scotland took a 2-goal lead in the 1<sup>st</sup> 10 minutes of the match with goals from {{w|Kenny Miller}} and {{w|Lee McCulloch}}. Ukraine made things interesting when they pulled a goal back when {{w|Andriy Shevchenko}} scored off of {{w|Andriy Nesmachniy}}'s left-wing cross in the 24<sup>th</sup> minute. {{w|James McFadden}} secured the win in the 68<sup>th</sup> minute.

==Starting lineups and statistics==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="6"|Starting lineups
|-
!colspan="3"|Scotland
!colspan="3"|Ukraine
|-
!#!!Player!!Club Team!!#!!Player!!Club Team
|- 
|1||[[w:Craig Gordon|Craig Gordon]]||[[w:Sunderland A.F.C.|Sunderland]]||1||[[w:Olexandr Shovkovskiy|Olexandr Shovkovskiy]]||[[w:Dynamo Kyiv|Dynamo Kyiv]]
|- 
|2||[[w:Alan Hutton|Alan Hutton]]||[[w:Rangers FC|Rangers]]||2||[[w:Andriy Nesmachniy|Andriy Nesmachniy]]||Dynamo Kyiv
|- 
|3||[[w:Gary Naysmith|Gary Naysmith]]||[[w:Sheffield United|Sheffield United]]||3||[[w:Oleksandr Kucher|Oleksandr Kucher]]||[[w:Shakhtar Donetsk|Shakhtar Donetsk]]
|- 
|4||[[w:Stephen McManus|Stephen McManus]]||[[w:Celtic FC|Celtic]]||4||[[w:Anatoliy Tymoschuk|Anatoliy Tymoschuk]]||[[w:Zenit Saint Petersburg|Zenit Saint Petersburg]]
|- 
|5||[[w:David Weir|David Weir]]||Rangers||5||[[w:Volodymyr Yezerskiy|Volodymyr Yezerskiy]]||Shakhtar Donetsk
|- 
|6||[[w:Barry Ferguson|Barry Ferguson]]||Rangers||7||[[w:Andriy Shevchenko|Andriy Shevchenko]]||[[w:Chelsea FC|Chelsea]]
|- 
|7||[[w:Stephen Pearson|Stephen Pearson]]||[[w:Derby County FC|Derby County]]||9||[[w:Oleh Husyev|Oleh Husyev]]||Dynamo Kyiv
|- 
|8||[[w:Lee McCulloch|Lee McCulloch]]||Rangers||10||[[w:Andriy Voronin|Andriy Voronin]]||[[w:Liverpool FC|Liverpool]]
|- 
|9||[[w:Kenny Miller|Kenny Miller]]||Derby County||16||[[w:Andriy Vorobey|Andriy Vorobey]]||[[w:Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk|Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk]]
|- 
|10||[[w:Scott Brown (Scottish footballer)|Scott Brown]]||Celtic||21||[[w:Olexandr Gladkiy|Olexandr Gladkiy]]||Shakhtar Donetsk
|- 
|11||[[w:James McFadden|James McFadden]]||[[w:Everton FC|Everton]]||30||[[w:Dmytro Chygrynskiy|Dmytro Chygrynskiy]]||Shakhtar Donetsk
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|-
!colspan="4"|Statistics
|-
!colspan="1"|Statistic
!colspan="1"|Scotland
!colspan="1"|Ukraine
|- 
|Total Shots:||7||13
|- 
|Shots on Goal:||6||4
|-
|Fouls:||18||19
|-
|Offsides:||0||1
|-
|Corner Kicks:||2||1
|}

==Sources==
*{{source|url=http://soccernet.espn.go.com/report?id=197437&cc=5901|title=Scotland 3 -1 Ukraine: Scots on course|author=|pub=ESPN Soccernet|date=October 13, 2007}}
*{{source|url=http://www.uefa.com/competitions/euro/fixturesresults/round=2241/match=83993/report=rp.html|title=Scotland stay on course for finals place|author=|pub=UEFA|date=October 12, 2007}}
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Scotland took a step closer to qualifying for Euro 2008 as a 3-1 win against Ukraine kept them top of Group B in UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying. The loss for Ukraine takes their tragic number down to 5 and could be officially be eliminated by the end of play at the end of the day.

Scotland took a 2-goal lead in the 1st 10 minutes of the match with goals from Lee McCulloch. Ukraine made things interesting when they pulled a goal back when Andriy Nesmachniy's left-wing cross in the 24th minute.  secured the win in the 68th minute.


Statistics

Statistic

Scotland

Ukraine

Total Shots:

7

13

Shots on Goal:

6

4

Fouls:

18

19

Offsides:

0

1

Corner Kicks:

2

1
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