DUFLU season results in U-17 category: sensation from Lviv in semifinal

08.07.2018 15:01

Shakhtar's youth players became champions of Ukraine without missing a single goal in the final tournament. Photo by shakhtar.com

The main surprise of the final tournament of the Ukrainian championship under the auspices of DUFLU of the 2017/2018 season in the U-17 age category is the defeat of a very strong team of Dynamo Kyiv in the semifinals.

Kyiv footballers born in 2001 have already started scoring even for the U-19 team, became the winners of their second zone of the regular championship, leaving Shakhtar behind. But in the semifinals, the wards of Yuri Dmytrulin and Serhiy Protsyuk after three wins in the group with a total score of 11: 1 lost to Lviv from UFK-Karpaty - 2: 3.

Halychyna won the first half thanks to a goal by Vadym Melniychuk (17th minute), then doubled the score with the efforts of Danylo Sikan (47), and only after that Dynamo players started to score. First - Christian Bilovar (63), followed by - Ruslan Skidan (75). But among them again distinguished a pupil of Zhytomyr football Sikan (65) - perhaps the best scorer of Ukraine of this generation.

"In this game we lacked freshness, concentration, stability, luck, so the score is such, and it is natural, - summed up the sensational defeat of" Dynamo "team coach Sergei Protsyuk. - If you compare UFK-Karpaty and our team, they were stronger in mood. 11 men came out against the players, who probably already considered themselves players of the junior team "Dynamo". Honestly, we did not deserve to win today. "

It should be noted that the players born in 2001 from Dynamo won two previous youth championships of Ukraine - U-15 (2016) and U-16 (2017). But at graduation, Kyivans fell to the lowest rung in their biography. And although in the match for bronze they crushed "Karpaty" - 8: 0, it was not very happy. By the way, Dynamo inflicted a crushing defeat on Karpaty in the group as well - 7: 0. But the magic of the capital club did not work against UFK-Karpaty.

But Shakhtar's players managed to find an approach to the Dynamo winners, who eventually became the champions of Ukraine, not missing a single ball in the final tournament. In the final, everything was decided by a single goal by Mykhailo Mudryk in the 30th minute.

"We saw a great desire to win," said the head coach of the champions Igor Leonov. - The team is very good. I accepted the team only six months ago, and it is worth paying tribute to the coaches who worked with it before - Anatoliy Skirchuk and Vyacheslav Shevchuk. It's time for the boys to switch from children's football to adult football. Of course, I always want the players to get even better. In this lineup there are those who can grow into good football players. "

DUFLOW. U-17. The final tournament

Group A

Dnipro - Zmina-Obolon (Kyiv) - 0: 1

Dynamo Kyiv (Kyiv) - Karpaty (Lviv) - 7-0

Zmina-Obolon (Kyiv) - Karpaty (Lviv) - 1: 2

Dnipro - Dynamo (Kyiv) - 0: 2

Dynamo (Kyiv) - Zmina-Obolon (Kyiv) - 2: 1

Karpaty (Lviv) - Dnipro - 3: 3

Standings

Group B

Metalurg (Zaporizhzhya) - Shakhtar (Donetsk) - 0: 2

UFK-Karpaty (Lviv) - Arsenal (Kyiv) - 2: 0

Shakhtar (Donetsk) - Arsenal (Kiev) - 2-0

Metalurg (Zaporizhzhya) - UFK-Karpaty (Lviv) - 0: 1

UFK-Karpaty (Lviv) - Shakhtar (Donetsk) - 0: 1

Arsenal (Kyiv) - Metalurh (Zaporizhzhya) - 0: 2

Standings

Seventh place match

Dnipro - Arsenal (Kyiv) - 3: 0

Match for p'place

Metalurg (Zaporizhzhya) - Zmina-Obolon (Kyiv) - 6: 2

Semifinals

Shakhtar (Donetsk) - Karpaty (Lviv) - 2: 0

UFK-Karpaty (Lviv) - Dynamo (Kyiv) - 3: 2

Third Place Match

Dynamo Kyiv (Kyiv) - Karpaty (Lviv) - 8-0

Match for first place

Shakhtar (Donetsk) - UFK-Karpaty (Lviv) - 1: 0

Facts

• The teams of three zones out of four reached the final tournament - the first (Zmina-Obolon, Arsenal), the second (Dynamo, Shakhtar, Dnipro, Metallurg) and the fourth (UFC-Karpaty). "Carpathians").
• The winners of their zones in the regular championship in the U-17 category were: the first zone - "Zmina-Obolon" (Kiev), the second - "Dynamo" (Kiev), the third - "Flint" (Kremenchuk), the fourth - "UFK-Karpaty" (Lviv).
• In the playoffs, the four best teams from the first and fourth, second and third zones played each other (1st place - with 4th place, 2nd - with 3rd). The first and third zones were much weaker.
• The individual prizes of the final tournament were shared by such players. The best player is Mykhailo Mudryk, the best goalkeeper is Anatoliy Trubin (both Shakhtar), the best defender is Vladislav Mudryk (UFK-Karpaty), the best midfielder is Vikentiy Voloshin (Dynamo), the best striker is Danylo Sikan ( UFK-Karpaty »).
• At one time, individual prizes of the U-17 final tournaments were awarded to well-known future football players who later played in Premier League clubs: Georgy Tsitaishvili (best player, 2017), Vasyl Kravets (best defender, 2014), Oleksiy Gutsulyak, best midfielder, 2014), Vyacheslav Tankovsky (best midfielder, 2012), Dmitry Bilonog (best striker, 2012), Vladislav Kulach (best striker, 2010), Alexander Karavaev (best player, 2009), Dmitry Ryzhuk (best defender, 2009), Philip Budkivsky (best striker, 2009), Igor Tchaikovsky (best midfielder, 2008).
• Shakhtar won the U-17 age category for the first time since 2013. Since then, the title was won by the oldest youngsters "Dynamo" (2014, 2016, 2017) and Zaporozhye "Metallurg" (2015).
• The Ukrainian National Team, made up of players born in 2001, was created in the spring of 2016. It is headed by Oleg Kuznetsov, the team has already passed the Euro-2018 (U-17) cycle.