Belgium's golden generation is almost over, with De Bruyne, Witsel, and Carrasco getting older, Hazard retiring, Mertens, and Alderweireld not on the roster, plus Courtois, ( Courtois) refusing to be called up due to a conflict with the manager, added to the fact that Belgium were still not favored to go all the way this tournament despite being in a relatively easy group.
However, compared to the last World Group, when a group of mid-fledgling players recovered a lot over the past season, with Trossard scoring for Arsenal this season, Doku meanwhile being City's bursting point on the wing, and with De Ketelaere showing signs of a resurgence since arriving in Atalanta, Belgium's mid The new generation of players is slowly getting into a position to take over.
Tedesco, the Belgian coach (Tedesco), who plays mainly in a 4-3-3 formation, also confirms that the goalkeeper is Wolfsburg of Casteels. (Casteels), Vertonghen, a 37-year-old defender. (Vertonghen) will still have to carry the team's main center back, with Leicester City's main man Faes as his partner, but Faes will sometimes be too manic in his tackles, causing space to leak out behind him will be a concern.
Ligue 1 Rennes' left back, Theate, is in the 20-year-old's domestic league, the right back could be Debast, Anderlecht, or Fulham's Castagne, and Witsel, a veteran who has done well for Dort, could be used at center back
Everton Amadou Onana is responsible for defensive tackles in midfield. (Amadou Onana), the 22-year-old is well-built with good tackling ability and physical play. He has received attention from Bayern and Barcelona this summer. Another possibility is Tielemans (Tielemans), with Onana anchoring the defense, Tielemans could assist with the tandem in midfield, while De Bruyne would still be in his familiar attacking midfield.
There are no surprises with the front three who suddenly move forward and can act as a fulcrum to overpower opposing defenders. (Romelu Lukaku), with Doku on the left, City's bursting point on the wing, and Trossard on the right. Doku and Trossard can switch off and attack, or pull to the same side to penetrate opposing defenders, or use Lukaku's pivot for two-on-one play. In this group, the other three opponents will have a hard time dealing with the attacking combination of Lukaku, Doku and Trossard, not to mention De Bruyne, who excels at passing and shooting from distance.
Also has good ball control and passing ability off the bench, while also helping Openda in defense. (Openda), the versatile center forward can play up front or drop back into midfield. Last season, he broke RB Leipzig's transfer fee record for €42 million. The aforementioned De Ketelaere can be used as a rotation for Trossard or can emerge as an attacking midfielder. His breaking ability isn't that good, but his passing vision is good, but sometimes he hesitates to handle the ball. Belgium won't have much problem advancing in this group.
Ukraine were unfortunate to be in the same group as England and Italy in the qualifying rounds. However, although they were really at a disadvantage on the field, they retained at least one point on their home field. In the final round, they met Italy at home. Unfortunately, a landing in the penalty area was not recognized as a penalty by the referee and the third place in the group fell into the play-offs.
Ukraine showed the resilience of the team in the two matches of the play-offs. The match between Bosnia and Iceland was the last one. The two come-from-behind victories also proved their strength. When they came to play within the Europa League, apart from Belgium, Romania and Slovakia had stronger teams and more stable defenses in the play-offs. If Ukraine concede first goal in the match, the overturn will be more difficult.
Reyrov, former player of the national team of Ukraine. (Rebrov) When I take over in 2023, I like to play a 4-2-3-1 formation with defenders. Last season, goalkeeper Lunin served as the team's first goalkeeper because Courtois was injured at Real Madrid. (Lunin), Lunin has quick reflexes and good saves, and penalty kicks are his forte. He has faced penalties 8 out of 23 times in his career and has a success rate of nearly 35% in pouncing.
Four defenders, two center backs, Bournemouth Zabarnyi. (Zabarnyi), Matviyenko miner (Matviyenko), both center backs have good speed, some interceptions and ball control, but their common disadvantage is that the air defense is not very good, left back Everton's Mykolenko. (Mykolenko) interception ability is very strong, every 90 minutes can intercept 5.5 times, aerial confrontation ability is also good. Right back is Miners' Konoplya. (Konoplya), this player has the ability to control the ball and also has a good passing ability.
