Taking into account the situation in the capital of Ukraine the game will take place on neutral turf – in Nicosia (Cyprus). It will start at 20:00 (Kyiv time) at GSP Stadium.
Dynamo: to team play through game practice
The White-Blues have already had two training camps in Marbella. At the first one Kyivans were focused on physical condition and at the second – at the preparation for matches against Valencia.
For that sake Oleh Blokhin’s men played a big number of friendlies, besides Dynamo head coach had enough performers for two squads.
The White-Blues had six training matches (W-4, D-2, goal difference – 13:4) from January 18 till February 1 and five more (W-5, L-1, goal difference – 17:3) from February 5 till February 17.
Andriy Yarmolenko and Dieumerci Mbokani won’t face Valencia in Nicosia because of suspension. At the same time Kyivans have no injured performers.
Valencia: to form new squad
In December of 2013 Valencia CF got the new head coach – Juan Antonio Pizzi.
As he took charge of the team the Bats defeated Levante UD 2:0, but after that they had a winless streak which included five games.
Anyway in February of 2014 Valencia defeated Barcelona away (3:2), flattened Betis (5:0) and drew against Sevilla (0:0).
At the moment Pizzi’s men are eighth in La Liga standings.
The main problem is that key performers have left Valencia because of financial problems of the club.
Nowadays the Bats don’t have such stars as David Silva, Juan Mata, David Villa, Fernando Morientes, Carlos Marchena and Cesar Sanchez, who featured for Spanish side in 2009.
Big loss for Valencis is the injury of left winger Pablo Piatti. In this situation a lot will depend upon Algerian halfback Sofiane Feghouli.
Valencia play with one attacking and two supporting midfielders. Paco Alcacer usually plays as finisher and defense looks as follows: Barragan – Ricardo Costa – Mathieu – Bernat.
Defender Victor Ruiz won’t play against Dynamo because of suspension and midfielders Pablo Piatti and Oriol Romeu – because of injuries.
