Spain v Ukraine - Starting Line-Ups - Chelsea's Shevchenko to Start, Arsenal's Reyes and Fabregas Out

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Spain v Ukraine - Starting Line-Ups - Chelsea's Shevchenko to Start, Arsenal's Reyes and Fabregas Out

Submitted by Pavlos Skoufis on Wed, 14/06/2006 - 13:31.

The starting line-ups for the Group H opening matchof the World Cup Finals in Germany between Spain and Ukraine. Adriy Shevchenko is in the starting line-up for Oleg Blockhin's team, while Cesc Fabregas and Jose Antonio Reyes were left on the bench by Spain's coach Luis Aragones.

The newly-signed Chelsea FC striker said yesterday that he was fit and ready for the opening match and Ukraine's head coach Oleg Blockhin included him in the starting line-up.

The match is crucial for both teams, as they look for a good start in the tournament and they are the two favourites to win the tournament. However Tunisia is also a possible candidate to progress to the next stage and both teams know that they won't have an easy way past them.

SPAIN

UKRAINE


1. CASILLAS Iker (C)	1. SHOVKOVSKYI Oleksandr
3. PERNIA Mariano	2. NESMACHNYI Andriy
5. PUYOL Carlos	4. TYMOSCHUK Anatoliy
8. XAVI	5. YEZERSKYI Vladimir
9. TORRES Fernando	6. RUSOL Andriy
11. GARCIA Luis	(C) 7. SHEVCHENKO Andriy
14. XABI ALONSO	9. GUSEV Oleg
15. RAMOS Sergio	10. VORONIN Andriy
16. MARCOS SENNA	14. GUSIN Andriy
21. VILLA David	17. VASHCHUK Vladyslav
22. PABLO	21. ROTAN Ruslan

Substitutes


19. CANIZARES Santiago	12. PYATOV Andriy
23. REINA Jose Manuel	23. SHUST Bohdan
2. SALGADO Michel	3. IATSENKO Oleksandr
4. MARCHENA Carlos	8. SHELAYEV Oleg
6. ALBELDA David	11. REBROV Serhiy
7. RAUL	13. CHIGRYNSKYI Dmytro
10. REYES Jose Antonio	15. MILEVSKIY Artem
12. LOPEZ Antonio	16. VOROBEY Andriy
13. INIESTA	18. NAZARENKO Serhiy
17. JOAQUIN	19. KALINICHENKO Maksym
18. FABREGAS Cesc	20. BELIK Oleksiy
20. JUANITO	22. SVIDERSKYI Vyacheslav