Arsenal’s UEFA Europa League game against Vorskla Poltavam, scheduled to take place on Thursday, is in doubt according to reports.
Earlier this week, UEFA decided to move the game from Poltava’s Oleksiy Butovsky Stadium to the Olimpiyskiy Stadium in Kiev for security reasons after the introduction of martial law in Ukraine.
However, the Ukrainian side say they are still awaiting confirmation from officials at the Olimpiyskiy Stadium to see if they are able to host the fixture.
Vorskla vice-president Oleg Lisak told a press conference:
At this moment, the process is underway. We have applied to the NSC Olimpiyskiy with an official statement about the possibility of hosting the game, The NSC Olimpiyskiy has not provided any answer so far. We are in standby mode, we are preparing plan A and plan B in terms of stadium preparation. We would like to play in our stadium for our fans (but) at the moment, there’s a situation that we’re organising two games in different places so (the organisation) will be carried out at the appropriate level, with proper security measures. Now we’re waiting for an answer from the Olympic Stadium on whether they are ready to host us.
As it currently stands, it looks like the Olympic Stadium will be the venue for the game but that as not yet been confirmed.
