Austria made fools of anyone who had doubted their honesty. In the buildup to this game they had batted away the obligatory references to 1982, when their notorious “Disgrace of Gijón” with West Germany served both causes perfectly in navigating the World Cup group stage. A similar agreement would have required them and Ukraine to be on the same page but, in the event, for long periods it seemed jarring that they should even be sharing a pitch.
Andriy Shevchenko’s side would have finished second in Group C with a point and, given they had looked one of the tournament’s more enterprising propositions in previous outings, they could have been
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