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Match facts: England v Ukraine
ENGLAND
Wayne Rooney is available after serving a two-match ban following his red card in Montenegro last October. Ashley Young, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and James Milner are all a yellow card away from a suspension.
England had not beaten Sweden in seven previous competitive meetings, drawing five and losing two, before Friday.
All England's goalscorers against Sweden were aged 23 or under.
Finalists eight times, England have never won their opening game at a UEFA European Championship but they have triumphed in their second fixture now in their last four tournaments 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2012.
England have won just seven of the 15 UEFA European Championship games when they have scored first.
Oxlade-Chamberlain made his competitive debut for England on matchday one. Jack Butland, Jordan Henderson and Martin Kelly are yet to make theirs; Butland is the only uncapped member of the squad.
Ashley Cole has gone a record 96 outfield appearances without an England goal. Gary Neville, a member of the coaching staff at UEFA EURO 2012, set the previous mark of 85.
Injury news
Kelly has been struggling with a virus while Glen Johnson is on antibiotics for a toe infection.
John Ruddy (broken finger), Gareth Barry (torn stomach muscle), Frank Lampard (thigh) and Gary Cahill (broken jaw) pulled out of the squad with injuries and were replaced by Butland, Phil Jagielka, Henderson and Kelly respectively.
Miscellaneous
On 16 June it was announced that England will play Scotland in a friendly at Wembley on 14 August 2013 to mark the 150th anniversary of the Football Association (FA).
England convened in Manchester on 23/05, with Chelsea FC's UEFA Champions League-winning contingent joining six days later as their base moved to Hertfordshire on their return from Oslo. They arrived in Krakow on 06/06.
Roy Hodgson was unveiled as Fabio Capello's successor on 01/05, assuming the reins on 14/05. Capello resigned on 08/02.
Four players in the squad have previous UEFA European Championship experience: Steven Gerrard (2000, 2004), Cole (2004), John Terry (2004), Rooney (2004). Gerrard is the fifth England player to feature at three UEFA European Championships after Tony Adams, Alan Shearer, Gary Neville and Sol Campbell.
Pre-tournament friendlies
02/06 England 1-0 Belgium (Welbeck 36)
26/05 Norway 0-1 England (Young 9)
Oxlade-Chamberlain and Kelly made debuts in Norway; Danny Welbeck scored his first goal against Belgium.
UEFA EURO 2012 qualifying
Joe Hart played every minute of England's campaign, keeping five clean sheets in eight qualifiers; Cole was the only other ever-present member of the squad.
Jermain Defoe scored three goals against Bulgaria on 03/09/2010, one of ten hat-tricks in qualifying.
Five of the squad did not feature in qualifying: Robert Green, Butland, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Henderson and Kelly.
Domestic information
Hart, Joleon Lescott and Milner helped Manchester City FC earn their first top-flight championship in 44 years.
Cole played on 19/05 as Chelsea defeated FC Bayern Mόnchen to win the UEFA Champions League for the first time, the left-back converting a penalty as the shoot-out ended 4-3 following a 1-1 draw. Captain Terry was suspended but lifted the trophy, Chelsea's second in a fortnight after beating Liverpool FC 2-1 in the FA Cup final.
Andy Carroll struck for Liverpool, who at least had the consolation of the League Cup having seen off Cardiff City FC in the final in February. Level at 2-2 after full time, Gerrard missed the Reds' opening penalty of the shoot-out but Stewart Downing made no mistake and Johnson converted the winner to make it 3-2.
Rooney scored 27 goals in 34 league appearances for Manchester United FC, his best ever return.
Butland spent the season on loan at fourth-tier Cheltenham Town FC, losing the play-off final on 27/05.
UKRAINE
Ukraine have lost seven of their last 14 matches, winning six during that run.
Yevhen Selin and Anatoliy Tymoshchuk were both booked against France and are a yellow card away from a ban.
Before the Sweden win, Andriy Shevchenko had not scored two goals in a competitive game for Ukraine since 2004.
Selin, Yevhen Konoplyanka and Marko Dević made their competitive international debuts against Sweden.
Olekandr Goryainov, Maxym Koval, Bohdan Butko and Denys Garmash await their competitive international debuts, though all won their first caps in friendlies.
Injury news
Goalkeepers Olexandr Shovkovskiy (shoulder) and Andriy Dykan (concussion) were ruled out of the finals while Dmytro Chygrynskiy missed out with an ankle problem.
Miscellaneous
Ukraine had training camps in Turkey and Austria before returning to Kyiv on 06/06. Blokhin had to leave the Turkish camp for a few days following the death of his mother.
Shevchenko is both Ukraine's youngest scorer he was 19 years, 215 days old when he struck in a 3-2 loss to Turkey on 01/05/1996 and the oldest after scoring against Sweden aged 35 and 256 days.
Shevchenko has made at least one appearance for Ukraine in each of the last 17 years since making his debut.
There are eight survivors of Ukraine's only previous final tournament, when Blokhin guided them to the 2006 FIFA World Cup quarter-finals: Shevchenko, Tymoshchuk, Andriy Voronin, Artem Milevskiy, Oleh Gusev, Ruslan Rotan, Andriy Pyatov and Serhiy Nazarenko. Pyatov and Nazarenko did not make an appearance in Germany.
UEFA EURO 2012 build-up
Ukraine have had three coaches since the start of 2010. Myron Markevych guided the side to three wins and a draw before focusing on responsibilities at FC Metalist Kharkiv in October 2010. Yuriy Kalitvintsev managed one victory in eight games as caretaker coach before making way for Blokhin in April 2011.
Ukraine suffered a national record four successive losses between June and September 2011, with defeats by France, Sweden, Uruguay and the Czech Republic.
Shevchenko became the first Ukrainian player to reach 100 caps on 08/10/2010, in a draw with Canada. Three days later, against Brazil, Tymoshchuk became the second.
On 25/05/2010 Goryainov became Ukraine's oldest debutant when, aged 34 years and 330 days, he made his bow in a 4-0 victory against Lithuania in Kharkiv.
Andriy Yarmolenko scored after 15 seconds against Uruguay on 02/09/2011, Ukraine's quickest ever goal.
Friendly results
05/06/2012 Turkey 2-0 Ukraine (Caner 30, Mustafa Pektemek 70)
01/06/2012 Austria 3-2 Ukraine (Junuzović 3, Arnautović 62 89; Gusev 56 65)
28/05/2012 Ukraine 4-0 Estonia (Yarmolenko 9, Gusev 34pen, Voronin 41, Milevskiy 50)
29/02/2012 Israel 2-3 Ukraine
15/11/2011 Ukraine 2-1 Austria
11/11/2011 Ukraine 3-3 Germany
11/10/2011 Estonia 0-2 Ukraine
07/10/2011 Ukraine 3-0 Bulgaria
06/09/2011 Czech Republic 4-0 Ukraine
02/09/2011 Ukraine 2-3 Uruguay
10/08/2011 Ukraine 0-1 Sweden
Domestic information
Pyatov, Olexandr Kucher, Yaroslav Rakitskiy, Vyacheslav Shevchuk and Yevhen Seleznyov were part of the FC Shakhtar Donetsk squad that earned a third successive Ukrainian title.
Seleznyov was the Premier League's joint highest scorer with 14 goals in 23 appearances.
The Pitmen completed the double on 06/05, Kucher scoring the extra-time winner against his former side FC Metalurh Donetsk to seal a 2-1 triumph after Rakitskiy's free-kick was parried into his path.
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