Ukraine's coach not expecting easy game against Sweden

Ukraine's national team chief coach Oleh Blokhin has said that he doesn't expect the game against Sweden in Kyiv on June 11 will be easy.

"I don't think it will be an easy game. [Sweden has] a very good team. They have a very strong starting eleven. The Swedes are a very experienced team. They have competent defenders, strong midfielders," he said at a pre-match press conference in Kyiv on Sunday at the Olympiysky National Sport Complex.

Blokhin said he had already decided on the starting line-up. He told Interfax-Ukraine that all players were fit and ready for the game.

The Ukrainian team chief said that regardless of the outcome of the match with Sweden, his squad would still have two games ahead, and they would fight to the end. He said they would not pay much attention to the France-England match, which will be held today in Donetsk before the Ukraine-Sweden match.