The last match of the Ukrainian national team suddenly revealed a vast number of problems. And if in games against less-skilled opponents Andriy Shevchenko has been able to hide these issues, now it will be much more challenging. It would also be understandable if the "yellow-blues" could whitewash themselves by making classical excuses about "second game in a row" and a strong opponent. But they can't. The team has systematic problems of a much deeper nature, and there will be more of them in the match against France. It became known that Pyatov and Stepanenko will miss the match due to a positive test for COVID-19. Earlier Konoplyyanka and Zinchenko got injured. Likely, the rest of the Shakhtar players will also be out of action. Andriy Shevchenko might heavily rotate his roster since it will be a friendly game. As such, everything suggests that Ukraine is going to lose.