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Vitalii Mykolenko has left the Ukraine national team training camp due to an injury.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Mykolenko had suffered an injury in the final pre-season game against AS Roma but made his return to the pitch against Mansfield Town in the Carabao Cup before facing Wolverhampton Wanderers in the Premier League.<\/p>\n
\u201cAfter an MRI, the Everton player was found to have an injury sustained in matches for the club. Because of this, Mykolenko will not be able to play in the September 2026 World Cup qualification matches against France and Azerbaijan. Serhiy Rebrov’s coaching staff has called up Vladyslav Dubinchak for these matches,\u201d read a statement from the Ukrainian Association of Football.<\/p>\n
The 26-year-old was pictured leaving the training camp<\/a> and is likely to return to England.<\/p>\n In his absence, David Moyes had to play James Garner at left-back against Leeds United and Brighton. Adam Aznou, who was signed from Bayern Munich as an understudy to Mykolenko this summer, was also suffering from an ankle injury. He returned to action for Everton U21s on Tuesday<\/a> when they were narrowly defeated at Docaster Rovers.<\/p>\n \t\u00a0<\/p>\n Reader Comments (31)<\/p>\n Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer<\/a> ()<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tPaul Hewitt \n He should never have gone. Only been back a few games. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tJack Convery We need a left-back pronto. <\/p>\n Not to mention that other problem position \u2014 right-back!!!!! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tPaul Kossoff <\/p>\n \t\t\tJonathan Oppenheimer He was clearly not right in the Wolves match. Hopefully it didn’t get too much worse while with the national team and he can recover in the next month or so, but if it’s significantly worse, we’re in trouble. <\/p>\n But unless Aznou is that raw and not good enough, if he’s healthy, I’d like to see him given a run to see what he’s capable of. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tIan Bennett \n We had a loan bid turned down for Chilwell apparently before he went France. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tPhil (Kelsall) Roberts \n Jack – Transfer and Loan window has closed until 1.1.2026 so it is Free Agents or Nobody. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tRobert Birks He is beginning to like the treatment room. <\/p>\n January, 2 full-backs please. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tRob Hooton Bit of a blow, I quite like Mykolenko who has been defensively solid. I thought he was improving at getting forward last season when Moyes came back and was hoping he might kick on a bit this season (we know Moyes likes his fullbacks to get forward last).<\/p>\n Hope it isn’t serious; I also hope Aznou is ready to take his chance and stake his place in the team \u2013 he probably wasn’t expecting it so soon. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tRob Dolby He didn’t look fit against Wolves and was probably rushed back.<\/p>\n I wouldn’t bet against him starting against Villa. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tOliver Molloy The club getting a bit of stick regards this \u2013 if true, the fitness guys at Everton have questions to answer.<\/p>\n \u201cMykolenko left the national team due to a diagnosed muscle problem,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cA big thank you to Everton who managed to get the player back on the pitch on the 18th day after his muscle injury and immediately gave him two 90-minute games in three days.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is blatant unprofessionalism and amateurism. There are a lot of emotions, let them look for the guilty, but this is the structure of the barbell \u2013 from the coaching to the medical staff of Everton.<\/p>\n \u201cIt’s incredible that this is happening at a club of the English Premier League level in 2025.<\/p>\n \u201cIt is difficult for me to imagine how a coach with the appropriate coaching education and understanding of football can make such decisions and deliberately expose a player to the risk of injury, which does not benefit the club, the national team, the player himself, or even the coach himself, who loses a key fighting unit.\u201d <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tJulian Wait <\/p>\n \t\t\tChristy Ring The Ukraine medical staff called us unprofessional and amateurish, saying coming back from a hamstring injury after 18 days and playing 90 minutes Wednesday and Saturday doesn’t make sense, and that it’s going to take longer now to recover? <\/p>\n So are we back playing Garner again out of position, after his fine performance in midfield against Wolves? If it’s true, it definitely asks questions about our medical team. <\/p>\n I don’t understand why he played the full game against Mansfield in his first game back anyway? <\/p>\n Rumours we tried to bring in Chilwell a couple of hours before the deadline, but he had signed for Strasbourg\u2026 Could we not have tried to bring him in weeks earlier, a very good left-back? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tPete Neilson \n Read today that our first team doctor, William Fotherby, is joining Man Utd so I imagine it’ll be somebody else dealing with his treatment. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tGavin Johnson Could have been worse. They could have played him and he had broken down and he’d be out for even longer.<\/p>\n Their physio is right that you shouldn’t expect to see this happening in this day and age. Years ago, I remember Kevin Ratcliffe saying that he played a lot of games for Everton when he wasn’t fully fit and was doing it on injections. It didn’t serve him, because he went from being possibly the best centre-back in the league to being washed up not long after reaching 30. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tSam Hoare Not ideal. Could mean an early debut for Adam Aznou. <\/p>\n Or for Merlin R\u00f6hl if Garner is moved back to left-back. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tColin Glassar Moyes has history doing this. <\/p>\n Remember when he rushed back Jack Rodwell and played him on the wing? He was never the same after that. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tBrendan McLaughlin \n Thought Finch Farm had a “rest & recovery” approach… <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tChristy Ring Gavin #15, <\/p>\n Martinez did the same with McCarthy, never gave him enough time to recover fully from his hamstring injury, played him too soon. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tGavin Johnson Christy. Yep, I forgot all about McCarthy. <\/p>\n I seem to remember Martinez going against our own physio team on that one, cos he held some kind of physio qualification himself so thought he knew better. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tBrendan McLaughlin Colin #17,<\/p>\n A history of doing this? Backed up with one example from ancient history. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tDave Abrahams Paul (1), <\/p>\n I think when a player is selected to play for their country, then they have to travel so the coaches of that country can make the decision to see if they are fit or not. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tTony Abrahams I think that these things can sometimes go out of the window, when there’s nobody else to play there, Brendan?<\/p>\n I think we have signed some good players and had a fairly good window, but I hope not bringing in a couple of versatile defenders doesn’t come back and bite us in the arse.<\/p>\n Unprofessional and amateurish is hopefully being left behind but, when you are short on numbers and not totally prepared for a new season, then sometimes you end up rushing players back a little bit too quickly. <\/p>\n I’m not Mykolenko’s biggest fan but he his definitely needed right now.<\/p>\n Maybe Merlin R\u00f6hl could play left-back, Sam?<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tErnie Baywood It sounds like we tried to withdraw him due to injury and Ukraine insisted he travel and be assessed. <\/p>\n They’re frustrated that he’s not available. <\/p>\n Players get released from international duty due to injury all the time. And they play for their club side. I don’t think this is as big a story as it’s being made out. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tBrendan McLaughlin Course they can, Tony #23.<\/p>\n But when I read about the “rest and recovery” regime at Finch Farm on here… I got the impression they called the shots. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tTony Abrahams I hope Ernie is calling this correctly. <\/p>\n And with regards the rest and recovery regime, Brendan, then hopefully it’s going to become a thing of the past!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tChristy Ring Dave #22 <\/p>\n Completely correct: if a club withdraws a player from international duty because of injury, the country can insist on him travelling and their medical staff can assess the player for injury. Fergie did it loads of times for International friendlies. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tJohn Raftery Mykolenko\u0092s contract expires next June. It\u0092s always awkward for a player suffering recurring injury issues in the final year of his contract. The Ukrainian has an history of injuries. After first arriving at the club in 2022 he played for 18 months with a hip problem until it was remedied with some specialist treatment. <\/p>\n Mykolenko never strikes me as a shirker, exactly the opposite in fact, but at this point in his career he obviously needs to get himself fully fit just as the club needs him to be fully fit. If that means he drops out for a few matches, so be it. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tMike Morgan \n Earlier comment spot on. Why did he play the full game against Mansfield !!! <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tSi Cooper During the transfer window there were posts that suggested that Roma had a surfeit of full backs and we might benefit from some intra-stable trading.<\/p>\n That went quiet, presumably because we weren\u0092t that interested in them or vice versa. Should that attitude change after the transfer window has shut is there a way of exploiting it?<\/p>\n I read that Sevilla terminated Kelechi Iheanacho\u0092s contract by mutual consent to make it easier for him to find another club and then he signed for Celtic. Could Roma do that for one of their players if he assesses his current competition and decides he\u0092s got a better chance of being a starter for us than at Roma? Or are their rules in place that prevent such a thing from happening? <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tJonathan Oppenheimer \n I went back to explore the question of why he played the entire match against Mansfield. He actually came off in the 87th minute for Jake O\u0092Brien, when we were still up only 1-0. Assuming he was feeling fine and we didn\u0092t want to risk giving up a goal at the end, it might make sense we kept him on, as Seamus was playing and Aznou and Patterson weren\u0092t healthy. The best option then would\u0092ve been to take him off after 60 minutes and move Dwight back there and Tim to midfield, or something like that. Certainly feels like too much football in 3 days for someone coming off an injury. <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \t\t\tMark Taylor If you don’t sign full backs, expect problems.<\/p>\n God knows how we would cope if O’Brien got injured. <\/p>\n
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