European League 2018/2019 for Ukrainian national football players: lost to playoff favorites ...

26.04.2019 12:05

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The UEFA Europa League 2018-2019 season is coming to an end, but none of the players Andriy Shevchenko invited to the matches against Portugal and Luxembourg and added to the reserve list, the tournament did not remain.

He was the first to descend from the distance in July 2018 Ivan Petriak (2 matches) with his Ferencvaros. In the first qualifying round, Sergei Rebrov's team lost to Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Next, in August, left the international arena Oleksandr Karavaev (4 matches, 2 goals, 2 assists, 1 yellow card) with his Zorya and Roman Yaremchuk (4 matches, 1 ball, 1 yellow card) and Ihor Plastun,  (4 matches) with Ghent. In the play-off round of the Europa League, the Luhansk team lost to German RB Leipzig, and the Belgians lost to French Bordeaux.

Could not overcome the group tournament of LE "Yablonets" Eduard Sobol (4 matches, 1 yellow card). In the quartet, which was won by Dynamo Kyiv, the Czech team took the last place.

In turn, the team Dennis Boyko (9 matches, 16 conceded goals, 1 yellow card), Artem Shabanov (1 match), Nikita Burdy (10 matches, 1 yellow card), Vitalii Mykolenko (8 matches, 1 goal, 2 assists, 2 yellow cards), Viktor Tsygankov (9 matches, 2 goals, 4 assists), Serhii Sydorchuk (8 matches), Vitaliy Buyalsky (7 matches, 2 goals, 1 assist, 3 yellow cards), Volodymyr Shepelyev (9 matches, 2 yellow cards, 1 red card) and Mykola Shaparenko (7 matches, 1 goal), which, as we noted, did not reach the Champions League group stage, reached the 1/8 of the Europa League, where she lost to a future participant in the semifinals, the London "Chelsea".

Genk's performance turned out to be successful Ruslan Malinovskyi (13 matches, 3 goals, 3 assists, 2 yellow cards) in the group, but in the 1/16 tournament the Belgians lost to Prague "Slavia".

Already in the first round of the playoffs Shakhtar dropped out Andrey Pyatov (2 matches, 6 conceded goals),  Nicholas Matvienko (1 match, 1 yellow card), Bogdan Butka (2 matches), Sergey Krivtsov (1 match, 1 yellow card), Taras Stepanenko (1 match, 1 red card), Marlos (2 matches, 1 goal), Victor Kovalenko (2 matches), Sergiy Bolbat (2 matches) and Junior Moraes (2 matches, 1 goal, 2 assists, 1 yellow card) , who, as we noted, moved to the Champions League from Champions League. Another semifinalist of the tournament, German Eintracht, offended the Pitmen.