Ukrainian U-21 Championship: during the winter break, the lineups changed

11.02.2021 19:02

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The matches of the U-12 championship, which will be the last in this age category, will resume on February 21 in Ukraine. 

Weather conditions today require a lot of effort from the organizers and hosts to make all seven matches of the 14th round take place. Program like that. On Friday, February 12, Zorya-Desna (Zaporizhzhya), Kolos-Shakhtar (Shchaslyve), Dynamo-Olimpik (Koncha-Zaspa) and Minai will play. Lviv (Uzhhorod). On Saturday, February 13, matches Dnipro-1 - Ingulets (Dnipro), Rukh - Vorskla (Lviv) and Mariupol - Oleksandriya (Mariupol) are scheduled.

It will be recalled that two matches have not been played since the fall: Vorskla - Rukh (1st round) and Olimpik - Zorya (10th round). Dates are still unknown to them.

During the winter break, the composition of the U-21 teams changed slightly. And in some cases - and not a little. For example, the leader - "Dynamo" - has already leased five key players. 21-year-old Bohdan Biloshevskyi (10 matches, two goals in the first part of the 2020/2021 season for Dynamo U-21) joined Desna in terms of playing practice at the UPL level. 19-year-old Roman Bodnya (10/2), 20-year-old Artur Vashchyshyn (1/0, has not played since September 25 due to injury), 20-year-old Vadym Mashchenko (9/1) and Chornomorets went to the first league. almost 21-year-old Daniil Sukhoruchko (12/3). And Shakhtar gave 19-year-old Zaporizhzhya football player Oleksandr Drambaev (12/2) to Mariupol.

It is already known that six more players from the U-21 championship have moved to the clubs of the first league: 22-year-old Oleksandr Savoshko (10/0) ​​from Lviv to Veres, and 19-year-old Ruslan Skidan to Obolon ( 8/3) from Zorya to VPK-Agro - almost 21-year-old Maksym Agapov (11/1), 21-year-old Dmytro Piddubny (6/0, also played three times for the main squad) and 22-year-old Tymofiy Suhar (9/0) is also from Zorya, 23-year-old Artem Pospelov (10 / -19) from Mariupol is to Avangard. In addition to the latter, 20-year-old Vyacheslav Velev, 20-year-old Oleksandr Kozhevnikov and 21-year-old Gleb Lityuk left the club.

There were also lease returns, which could theoretically turn into new leases. Or players will get a new chance to show themselves in their club. There are also acquisitions from lower divisions, first of all - the second league. Thus, Lviv's Karpaty released to Zorya the midfielder of the youth national team of Ukraine Maksym Khlan. And Vinnytsia's Niva transferred two players to UPL clubs at once - goalkeeper Ivan Muzychka (Oleksandriya) and defender Yevhen Kostyuk (Kolos).

But let's not forget that the transfer window in Ukraine is open until March 2 inclusive. Therefore, there may still be a lot of transitions.

Standings

Scorers: Bogdan VYUNNYK (Shakhtar) - 13, Vladislav VANAT (Dynamo) - 11, Anton BAYDAL (Mariupol) - 10, Yaroslav NADOLSKY (Dynamo), Artur REMENYAK (Lviv) - 7, Vikentiy VOLOSHYN (Dynamo), Danylo HONCHARUK (Shakhtar), Stanislav KOVAL (Kolos) - 6, Daniil ALEFIRENKO (Zorya), Andriy GLOBA (Alexandria), Mamadou DANFA (DANFA) Yevhen ISAYENKO (Dynamo, Kolos), Edward KOBAK (Shakhtar), Ostap MALASHEVSKY (Lviv), Stanislav MORARENKO (Kolos), Andriy NOVIKOV (Alexandria) - 5.

This season is the 17th in the youth championship of Ukraine. Over the past 16 years, the most stable high results were achieved by Dynamo (seven times - first place, five - second, one - third) and "Shakhtar" (five times - first place, five - second, two - third).

Karpaty (21), Zorya (2010), Illichivets (2013) and Dnipro (2014) also won the U-2015 championship.

In addition to Dynamo and Shakhtar, the three winners most often included: Metalist (2005, 2006, 2008, 2011) and Dnipro (2011, 2014, 2015, 2016) four times, and Illichivets three times. (2005, 2006, 2014), two each - "Chernomorets" (2007, 2009), "Zorya" (2012, 2013), "Karpaty" (2010, 2017), "Alexandria" (2018, 2019) and "Vorskla" (2015, 2020).