Premier League: Shakhtar defeated Zorya and secured the championship title three rounds before the tournament finish
On Sunday, the 29th round of the Ukrainian Premiership Championship ended with two matches of the first six teams'air league. The main event of the game day can be considered Shakhtar's early registration of the championship title.
In a meeting in Zaporozhye at the Slavutych Arena, where the miners on Wednesday won over in the final of the Cup of Ukraine, today they secured the second national title of the week - the title of national champion.
The only goal in the match was scored in the 11th minute. The combination with the participation of the players of the national team of Ukraine turned out to be effective. Stepanenko transferred the ball to Bolbat, and Shakhtar's right-back shot into the center of the penalty area, where Moraes successfully played ahead, scoring his 19th goal of the tournament.
Having won the next three points, the miners became unattainable for Dynamo, with whom they will meet in the next round as the 12-time champion of Ukraine. In the spring, Shakhtar won 10 matches in 11 matches, conceding only one goal.
The Pitmen made players on the field, caused by Andriy Shevchenko to the national team: Pyatov, Bolbat (goal pass), Kryvtsov, Stepanenko (yellow card), Kovalenko (substituted in the 86th minute, yellow card), Moraes (goal, yellow card), Matvienko (substituted in the 77th minute). Oleksandr Karavayev, a member of Zorya's Ukrainian national team, also played a full match.
Another Sunday match could also determine the winner of the awards - bronze. In the event of a draw with Lviv, Oleksandriya would secure third place and a direct pass to the Europa League group stage next season. But Bohdan Blavatsky's wards managed to score the first points in the second stage of the championship. After six victories in the tournament for 1-6 places, Lviv won its first victory.
Pedro scored his second goal in the second half in Ukraine (by the way, the first, in the goal of "Desna" in the 22nd round, was also the only one in the meeting and also took place in the 58th minute). After that, the guests did not allow Volodymyr Sharan's team to create almost anything near their goal and kept the winning score. So, "Alexandria" will have to postpone the decision of the main task of the season at least until the match of the next round with "Mariupol".
29 round
Tournament for 1-6 places
18.05.2019
Dynamo - Mariupol - 2: 1 (1: 0)
19.05.2019
"Alexandria" - "Lviv" - 0: 1 (0:0)
Goal: Pedro (58).
Zorya - Shakhtar - 0: 1 (0: 1)
Goal: Moraes (11).
Standings
|
|
G |
W |
D |
L |
GD |
P |
1. |
Shakhtar |
29 |
24 |
4 |
1 |
65-10 |
76 |
2. |
Dynamo |
29 |
20 |
5 |
4 |
49-16 |
65 |
3. |
Oleksandriya |
29 |
14 |
6 |
9 |
37-28 |
48 |
4. |
Mariupol |
29 |
11 |
6 |
12 |
32-41 |
39 |
5. |
Zorya |
29 |
10 |
9 |
10 |
35-30 |
39 |
6. |
Lviv |
29 |
8 |
9 |
12 |
24-35 |
33 |
Tournament for 7-12 places
18.05.2019
Vorskla - Arsenal-Kyiv - 2: 0 (1: 0)
Karpaty - Desna - 2: 0 (0: 0)
"Olympic" - "Chernomorets" - 2: 1 (1: 0)
Standings
|
|
G |
W |
D |
L |
GD |
P |
7. |
Desna |
29 |
11 |
5 |
13 |
34-37 |
38 |
8. |
Vorskla |
29 |
11 |
5 |
13 |
27-39 |
38 |
9. |
Olimpik |
29 |
7 |
10 |
12 |
35-42 |
31 |
10. |
Karpaty |
29 |
7 |
8 |
14 |
37-45 |
29 |
11. |
Arsenal-Kiev |
29 |
7 |
4 |
18 |
23-51 |
25 |
12. |
Chornomorets |
29 |
5 |
7 |
17 |
23-47 |
22 |
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