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Preview: Group D - England vs. Ukraine

Preview: Group D - England vs. Ukraine
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Sports Mole previews England's crunch Group D encounter with Euro 2012 co-hosts Ukraine.

England can guarantee their place in the last eight of Euro 2012 by avoiding defeat to co-hosts Ukraine in Donetsk tonight.

Meanwhile, Oleg Blokhin's side must win in order to progress beyond the group stage.

Three Lions boss Roy Hodgson will have a full compliment of players to chose from for the first time in the tournament.

After serving his suspension, Wayne Rooney is a certain starter and likely to partner either Danny Welbeck or Andy Carroll in attack, while Theo Walcott has been declared fit and comes into contention for a starting berth on the right side of midfield.

Ukrainian talisman Andriy Shevchenko, who is his team's only scorer of the championships thus far, is likely to start after shaking off a knee injury.

England have won three of the sides' four previous encounters, however Ukraine were 1-0 victors on the last occasion that these teams met.

Recent form:

England: WLWWDW
Ukraine: WWLLWL

Possible lineups:

England: Hart; Johnson, Cole, Terry, Lescott; Walcott, Young, Gerrard, Parker, Rooney, Welbeck

Ukraine: Pyatov; Khacheridi, Mykhalyk, Selin, Gusev; Konoplyanka, Nazarenko, Tymoshchuk; Shevchenko, Voronin, Yarmolenko

Sports Mole says: 3-1

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