UEFA Nations League Albania versus Ukraine kick off 19:45 Tue 19 Nov 2024

Prior History

Albania has lost four and won just one of its past five matches against Ukraine.

Ukraine has won five of the nine meetings between the sides with four losses.

The last meeting was a 1-0 home win for Albania in October 2020.

Albania

Albania have lost their last two matches, against Belarus and Armenia.

They have conceded at least one goal in each of their last five games.

They are 67th in the FIFA world rankings, one place below Ukraine.

Ukraine

Ukraine have won their last two matches, against Armenia and Scotland.

They have kept a clean sheet in each of their last three games.

They are 27th in the FIFA world rankings, 40 places above Albania.

Team news

Albania have no major injury concerns.

Ukraine are without injured defenders Oleksandr Zinchenko and Taras Stepanenko.

Mykhaylo Mudryk is suspended for Ukraine after being sent off in the win over Scotland.

Predicted line-ups

Albania: Strakosha; Hysaj, Kumbulla, Ismajli, Mihaj; Bare, Abrashi, Ramadani; Balaj, Uzuni, Cikalleshi.

Ukraine: Lunin; Karavaev, Zabarnyi, Matviyenko, Mykolenko; Malinovskyi, Stepanenko, Zinchenko; Yarmolenko, Yaremchuk, Mudryk.

Prediction

Ukraine are the favourites to win this match. They are the higher-ranked team and have a better recent record. However, Albania have a good home record and will be looking to cause an upset.

Our prediction: Albania 1-2 Ukraine