Ukrainian U-19 Championship: XNUMX% result of Zorya with victories over Shakhtar and Dynamo

29.03.2021 14:10

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Brilliantly held the first six rounds of the Ukrainian championship U-19 2021 Luhansk "Zorya", which scored 18 points out of 18 possible.

Vasily Baranov's wards did without defeats, winning these six matches with a total score of 9: 2. But it is important to note not only the stability of the young Luhansk, but also the fact that "Zorya" did not care who to win.

After Desna (2: 0) and Mariupol (1: 0), Shakhtar (1: 0, goal scored by Oleg Yelets) was put on the shoulders. And then, between Lviv (2: 1) and Kolos (2: 1), Dynamo (1: 0, Daniil Melnyk) was also beaten. Not surprisingly, with such stable results, Zorya rose from fifth place in the standings to third. He may even interfere in the struggle between Dynamo and Shakhtar. In terms of lost points, Luhansk is minimally inferior to the miners.

But Dynamo also has a match in reserve. So far, four matches remain unplayed in the championship. There are three left from the fall: Vorskla - Rukh (1st round), Olimpik - Desna (7th round), Olimpik - Zorya (10th round). One was added in the spring: Lviv - Dynamo (round 16).

"Alexandria" also confidently spent the starting period of 2021. Yuriy Gura's boys scored 12 points out of 18 possible and changed the 11th place in the standings to the sixth. The Alexandrians defeated mostly outsiders (although they sensationally lost to Olimpik - 0: 1), but Vorskla from the leading quartet was also put on their shoulders (2: 1).

As for "Olympic", I would also like to say a few good words, because the worst team of the autumn part (only three points out of 33 possible) has already scored seven points (out of 18) in the spring. And swapped places at the bottom of the standings with "Minay", which in 2021 scored only one point.

Returning to the leaders, we note that Dynamo, with the exception of the defeat of Zorya, after the resumption of the season gave a stable winning result - 12 points out of 15 with a total score of 22: 3. And forward Kiril Popov scored exactly half of these goals (four - "Olympic", five - "Desni", two - "I pass") and with a huge gap tops the list of top scorers of the championship.

But Shakhtar lost points not only to Zorya. After the defeat by Luhansk, Oscar Ratulutra's players minimally defeated "Olympic" (1: 0), and then twice in a row drew 1: 1 - first with an outsider, "Desna", and then with "Lviv". As a result, the miners began to move away from Dynamo in the standings. And a personal meeting in the 22nd round (base date - April 17) may not solve this problem for Shakhtar.

Standings

Scorers: Kirill POPOV (Dynamo) - 16, Leon GLADKOVSKY (Vorskla), Artem LEGOSTAYEV (Zorya) - 7, Vladislav VANAT (Dynamo), Ivan LOSENKO (Shakhtar), Vitaliy NERUKH (Zorya) ), Marko SAPUGA (Rukh), Yuriy TLUMAK (Dynamo), Roman YUVKHYMETS (Lviv) - 6.