This, folks, is how you qualify. Ukraine went into today just needing to beat Andorra to go through; instead, they decided to pull out all the stops and absolutely crush the tiny little Southern European minnow 6-0. Not only that, but they got their result on the road.
Andriy Shevchenko opened up the scoring in the 22′; Oleh Husyev (62′), Yaroslav Rakytskiy (80′), Yevhen Seleznyov(81′), and Andriy Yarmolenko (84′) all contributed; Andorran defender Ildefons Lima also had an own goal in the 70′.
The other early result of the day also comes from Group 6, where Croatia beat Kazakhstan 2-1 in a match that was rendered irrelevant by Ukraine’s win over Andorra.
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