On September 6, the Ukrainian football team beat the Lithuanian team in Lviv 1:0 in a qualification match for the 2010 World Football Championship.
An Italian team of referees headed by Nicola Rizzoli supervised the match.
The chief coach of the Ukrainian team Oleksii Mykhailychenko chose the following lineup: Andrii Piatov (Shakhtar, Donetsk), Anatoly Timoschuk (Zenit, Saint Petersburg), Hryhorii Yarmash (Vorskla, Poltava), Andrii Rusol (Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk), Maksym Kalynychenko (Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk), who was replaced by Oleksandr Aliev (Dynamo, Kyiv) during a break, Andrey Voronin (Hertha, Berlin, Germany), who was replaced by Yevhen Selezniov (Shakhtar Donetsk) at the 58th minute), Viacheslav Shevchuk (Shakhtar, Donetsk), Artem Milevskyi (Dynamo, Kyiv), who was replaced by Andrii Shevchenko (Milan, Italy) at the 74th minute, Serhii Kravchenko (Vorskla, Poltava), Taras Mykhalyk (Dynamo, Kyiv), Serhii Nazarenko (Dnipro, Dnipropetrovsk).
The chief coach of the Belarusian team, German Berndt Stange fielded the following lineup: Yury Zhevnov (Moscow, Russia), Aleksandr Kulchy (Rostov, Russia), Yegor Filippenko (Spartak, Moscow, Russia), Sergey Omelyanchuk (Terek, Grozny, Russia), Vladimir Korytko (Chornomorets, Odesa, Ukraine), who was replaced by Andrey Chukhley (Dynamo, Minsk, Belarus) at the 68th minute), Vitaly Bulyga (Luch-Energiya, Vladivostok, Russia), who was replaced by Vyacheslav Gleb (MTZ-Ripo, Minsk, Belarus) at the 72nd minute, Oleg Strakhanovich (MTZ-Ripo, Minsk, Belarus), Aleksandr Gleb (Barcelona, Spain), Vitaly Kutuzov (Parma, Italy), Anton Putilo (Hamburg, Germany), who was replaced by Aleksandr Pavlov (Dnepr, Mogilyovsk, Bealrus) at the 80th minute, Dmitry Verkhovtsev (Naftan, Novopolotsk, Belarus).
Ukraine scored its goal when Andrii Shevchenko struck a penalty.
Ukrainian News would say that Serhii Nazarenko was the best player of the match.
The results of other matches within Group 6 are the following: Croatia at home beat Kazakhstan 3:0, England won Andorra 2:0 thanks to two goals scored by Joe Cole (Chelsea, London, UK).
The unexpected results of the day are: Lithuania defeated Romania in Bucharest 0:3, Austria beat France 3:1, and Scotland lost to Macedonia 1:0.
As Ukrainian News earlier reported, Ukraine made its way into quarterfinal at the 2006 World Football Championship.
