Nesmachniy rejoins Ukraine squad

Andriy Nesmachniy has returned to the Ukraine squad for the games against Scotland and the Faroe Islands after missing a number of fixtures through injury.

Ins and outs
The FC Dynamo Kyiv defender is recalled along with FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk defender Olexandr Grytsay, FC Shakhtar Donetsk centre-back Dmytro Chygrynskiy and Dynamo striker Artem Milevskiy. FC Spartak Moskva midfielder Maxym Kalynychenko, Dnipro goalkeeper Maxym Startsev, Dnipro midfielder Konstyantyn Kravchenko and Shakhtar defender Vyacheslav Shevchuk are omitted. Ukraine lie fourth in Group B with 13 points from eight matches and a game in hand on all of their rivals. Ukraine visit Glasgow on 13 October and then host the Faroese four days later.

Ukraine squad
Goalkeepers: Olexandr Shovkovskiy (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Andriy Pyatov (FC Shakhtar Donetsk).

Defenders: Andriy Nesmachniy (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Olexandr Kucher (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Volodymyr Yezerskiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Dmytro Chygrynskiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Olexandr Grytsay (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Rusol (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk).

Midfielders: Oleh Gusev (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Ruslan Rotan (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Taras Mikhalik (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Olexiy Gay (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Serhiy Nazarenko (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Oleh Shelayev (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Anatoliy Tymoschuk (FC Zenit St. Petersburg).

Forwards: Artem Milevskiy (FC Dynamo Kyiv), Olexandr Gladkiy (FC Shakhtar Donetsk), Andriy Vorobey (FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk), Andriy Voronin (Liverpool FC), Andriy Shevchenko (Chelsea FC).