Championship of Ukraine (U-19): prudent Alexandria and lossless trio

18.09.2019 19:05

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After five rounds of the championship of Ukraine (U-19) of the season 2019/2020 13 its participants (we will remind that odd number is caused by disqualification teams U-19 and U-21 "Olympic") can be safely divided into three groups.

The first is a quartet of leaders. These are three teams that did not lose a single point - "Dynamo", "Volyn" and "Shakhtar" - as well as "Alexandria", which managed to lead the standings due to its own foresight. The wards of coach Yuri Gura held a match of the 15th round ahead of schedule, which was to be played in early December. The meeting with Dnipro-1 was supposed to close the first part of the season for the Alexandrians, but they held it during the break in the championship related to the national team matches (they won 6-3 on September 0), and now they can go on vacation earlier. for others. Of course, as well as "Dnipro-1".

The second group - teams that have lost three to six points and have already begun to form a company of middle peasants. These are Vorskla, Lviv and Karpaty. Although, of course, it is too early to draw conclusions after five games (and some, given the odd number of participants, spent only four).

And finally, six outsiders who were unpleasantly surprised by the lack of victories. And three of them - "Zorya", "Metalurg" and "Desna" - lost everything they could. This is not a surprise for Chernihiv, they had only one victory in 26 matches last season (and that - technical, over the "Olympic") and managed to miss 124 goals. But "Zorya" and "Metallurg" look unusually pale.

Igor Kostyuk's wards from Dynamo looked most confident at the start. They won all five matches with a big score, with "Mariupol" crushing - 8: 2, and "Lviv" - 8: 0. In each meeting at least one goal - in the assets of the top scorer of the championship Vladislav Vanat, who has scored a total of eight goals.

In three matches in a row, Volyn has scored at least four goals, and Shakhtar has won the last two matches with a total score of 10: 2. And this despite the fact that the team includes not only players born in 2001-2002, but also young men from the U-17 team (born in 2003) - Denis Shostak, Ivan Bendera, Artem Veklenko, Eduard Kozik, Dmitry Kapinus, Vladislav Pogoriliy. There is even one performer born in 2004 - Andriy Buleza. And his peer Yegor Yarmolyuk played for Dnipro-1.

There is an interesting trend in "Alexandria": as soon as the first goal (and in the debut of the game) is scored by Jan Karanga - victory is guaranteed. This was the case in five games out of six (except for a zero draw with Dnipro-1), and four goals out of six were scored by the Alexandrians' top scorer by the 10th minute.

Standings

Scorers: Vladislav VANAT (Dynamo) - 8, Abdulla ABDULLAYEV (Shakhtar), Yan KARANGA (Alexandria) - 6, Danilo KRAVCHUK (Vorskla), Mykola KUKHAREVYCH (Volyn) - 5, Vikenty VOLOSH Dynamo), Heorhiy SUDAKOV (Shakhtar) - 4, Vadym VETOKHA (Desna), Dmytro Yefimenko (Dynamo), Stanislav KOVAL (Kolos), Daniil OVCHARENKO (Alexandria), Vasyl PASICHNYAK Volyn ") - 3.