First League: Surprises at the Start of the Tournament in Kramatorsk, Minai and Horishni Plavni

The epicenter in the opening round of the first league championship of Ukraine was the confrontation in Kharkiv between "Metalist 1925" and "Ingults".

Both teams do not hide that they have a task to rise in the class. It will be recalled that due to the expansion of the Premier League next year, all winners of the competition will get passes to the elite. Unlike Kharkiv, the team from Petrovo escaped the rotation of the squad in the off-season, and it is not surprising that thanks to the better team, the guests took the initiative. However, Slobozhany gradually pushed the game away from their goal and in the 34th minute reached their goal: experienced Serhiy Davydov forced the new goalkeeper of Ingulets, Bohdan Shust, to capitulate. 1: 0. After the break, the ball was more often owned by the guests, but they could not escape defeat.

However, as often happens at the start, other matches aroused interest. Take at least the match in Zora, where the Balkans hosted Rukh, which was relocated from Vynnyky to Lviv earlier this week, and Igor Dedyshyn, who once held senior positions in the Carpathians, became the club's general director. In the previous face-to-face confrontations, two victories of each of the rivals were recorded, two more matches ended in a draw.

The new Lviv team opened the scoring in the eighth minute: Danylo Kondrakov skillfully used the meeting with the home goalkeeper. 0: 1. Leonid Kuchuk's wards continued to control the course of events on the field and scored three important points.

Or take the confrontation between Avangard, which is improving its results in the first league every season and is not going to stop there, with Volyn, which in its selection work has decided to rely on experienced performers. By the way, the guests managed to score a quick goal in Kramatorsk as well. In the fifth minute, Iranian legionnaire Lucian Siavash Hagnazari scored the first goal in the current first league championship. But this did not derail the hosts, who immediately after the break leveled the situation thanks to a well-aimed shot by Yuri Senitsky. When they increased their speed and adopted flank attacks, the Volynians were not ready for that. Vitaliy Sobko and Vadym Yavorskyi brought the score to 3: 1, and the only thing that Luhansk managed to do was to reduce the gap to a minimum in the 90th minute after Valery Boldenkov's shot.

Avangard footballers won a strong-willed victory over Volyn. Photo by fcavangard.com

After a long break, big football returned to Cherkasy. And already at the start the famous "Chornomorets", who played in the elite division last season, visited the local football players. The hosts put up stubborn resistance, and Odessa only in the second half thanks to the blows of Vasily Pavlov and Konstantin Yaroshenko managed to tilt the scales to their side - 1: 3.

In addition to Rukh, Chornomorets and Mykolayiv, the honor of the guests was duly defended by Prykarpattia players, who before the break actually removed from the agenda the issue of the winner in the match with Minai after accurate shots by Vasyl Frantsuz and Roman Barchuk. And under the curtain of the match Igor Khudobyak from his half of the field ran away from the defenders of the hosts and brought the case to defeat - 0: 3. Volodymyr Kovalyuk's wards unexpectedly topped the standings.

And the most effective was the confrontation in Kyiv, where Obolon-Brovar parted ways with Metalurh, which at the last moment replaced Arsenal-Kyiv in the first league - 3: 3. Oleksandr Batalskyi from Kyiv and Oleksiy Shchebetun from Zaporizhia scored a double. It was they, together with Kremen's station wagon Dmytro Zozulya, who scored twice in the match against Agribusiness, who took the lead among the scorers.

1 round

27. 07.2019

"Balkans" - "Movement" - 0: 1

"Minai" - "Prykarpattya" - 0: 3

Avangard - Volyn - 3: 2

Obolon-Brovar - Metalurg - 3: 3

"Miner-Sport" - "Nikolaev" - 1: 3

"Agribusiness" - "Flint" - 2: 2

"Cherkasy region" - "Chornomorets" - 1: 3

"Metalist 1925" - "Ingulets" - 1: 0

Standings

 

 

G

W

D

L

GD

P

 1.

Prykarpattya

1

1

0

0

3-0

3

 2.

Mykolayiv

1

1

0

0

3-1

3

 3.

Chornomorets

1

1

0

0

3-1

3

 4.

Avanhard

1

1

0

0

3-2

3

 5.

Metalist 1925

1

1

0

0

1-0

3

 6.

Rukh

1

1

0

0

1-0

3

 7.

Metalurh

1

0

1

0

3-3

1

 8.

Obolon-Brovar

1

0

1

0

3-3

1

 9.

Ahrobiznes

1

0

1

0

2-2

1

10.

Kremin

1

0

1

0

2-2

1

11.

Volyn

1

0

0

1

2-3

0

12.

Balkany

1

0

0

1

0-1

0

13.

Inhulets

1

0

0

1

0-1

0

14.

Hirnyk Sport

1

0

0

1

1-3

0

15.

Cherkashchyna

1

0

0

1

1-3

0

16.

Mynai

1

0

0

1

0-3

0

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