With England already qualified for the 2010 World Cup, it's hard to know how either the manager or the team are going to approach this match with Ukraine.
Despite all Wayne Rooney's talk of wanting to win all their qualifying games, Capello may look to experiment in the second half of the match, thus reducing England's effectiveness.
For the Ukraine, this is pretty much a must win match. They are behind Croatia in the Group and so must get a result if they are to get into the play-offs.
Unfortunately, Ukraine coach Alexei Mikhailichenko is without three key defenders (Chygrynskiy, Rusol and Manziuk) which will leave his backline vunerable to the power of Heskey and the pace and skill of Lennon, Gerrard and Rooney.
The Ukraine do have some good players, but they're not really as strong as the squad that qualified for the last World Cup Finals. Despite his trials at Chelsea, Andriy Shevchenko does still have the knack of scoring at international level and, in fact, scored when last these two teams met.
What is certain is that Ukraine will be the more motivated of the two sides and, if they win this, they will go to second in the group.
However, they are lacking real quality at the back and will be forced to attack in order to win the match. I suspect that this will end up a draw as Ukraine should come back into the match in the second half when Capello starts making the substitutions.
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I fully expect England to dominate the first half but that Ukraine will come back into it through necessity and England withdrawing some big names in the second half. So I am going with England/Draw in the Half Time/Full TIme market at a very reasonable 16/1 at Bet365 - click to open account or bet now
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I also take Andriy Shevchenko (who has 5 goals in qualifying so far) to score at anytime at 13/5 with Paddy Power - click to open an account or bet now.
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