U-21 Championship: Shakhtar losses and XNUMX% Dynamo

17.10.2019 15:01

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Today, the matches of the Ukrainian Championship (U-21) are resumed, and Shakhtar, in case of a victory over Kolos, has an opportunity to catch up with the leader of the standings - Vorskla, which is resting in the 11th round.

We are reminded that this was made possible by the odd number of tournament participants this season (11) which caused disqualification of U-21 and U-19 Olympic teams.

But recently Fernando Valente's wards have forced Shakhtar fans to learn the nuances of points loss. In three rounds on the eve of the break in the championship of Ukraine, associated with the matches of the national teams, the Pitmen scored only four points. And they managed to draw with Desna (0: 0), which since the publication last review scored ... only one point. The same - with orange and black.

Still, Shakhtar did not play the main match against Desna, but against Vorskla. Having lost in it - 1: 3. Andriy Stryzhak, Denys Galata (one of the best scorers of the season) and Yuriy Kozyrenko made the score sensational until the 58th minute - 3: 0 in favor of Oleg Krasnopyorov's wards. And only in overtime did the owner of the Silver Boots of the U-20 World Cup, Danilo Sikan, save Shakhtar from defeat.

Instead, Dynamo played this part of the season very strongly and, given the postponed match with Mariupol, scored 12 points out of 12. In particular, Kyiv beat Vorskla to its victory over Shakhtar (also 3: 1) and are currently leading by lost points. And behind those scored, they are only one point behind Poltava, who have one more match.

This is not surprising, because Dynamo's youth team is often played by experienced footballers, and some of them are much older than 21 years. Sidkley (26 years old) and Mykita Kravchenko (22) played six matches each, Oleksandr Andrievsky (25) played five matches, Heorhiy Bushchan (25) and Carlos Sambrano (30) played two matches each, and Yosyp Pivarich (30) played one match each. We will add young people Mykola Shaparenko, Denys Popov, Georgy Tsitaishvili, who have already played at the Premier League level, and we will get a very experienced team, which has been confidently led by Yuri Moroz for more than a year.

It is also worth paying attention to the performances of Lviv and Oleksandriya, who scored six points each in the last three rounds. Moreover, the Lviv team defeated the Alexandrians (3: 1) in a personal meeting, who due to this failure let the three leaders go. Small, but significant for Oleksandr Lomko's team. Although the game on October 19 with Dynamo on his field can change everything.

Karpaty are losing their positions (only one victory in the last five meetings), but Mariupol has finally won the first victory over Desna. Kolos did not score a single point in comparison with the previous review at the beginning of September, Dnipro-1 (U-21 newcomers) and Desna scored one point each, and Mariupol and Zorya scored only three points each. . That is, at the bottom of the standings, they all were not by accident.

Standings

Scorers: Denis GALATA (Vorskla), Vitaliy SILCHENKO (Karpaty), Stanislav SOROKIN (Kolos) - 5, Artem BILY (Vorskla), Bohdan LYTVYAK (Oleksandriya), Yaroslav NADOYLSK Andriy NOVIKOV (Alexandria), Klim PRIKHODKO (Shakhtar), Denis YANAKOV (Dynamo) - 4.