Ukrainian U-19 Championship: Lviv's Rukh sensationally went on a winter break as a leader by lost points

19.12.2021 15:07

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In the Ukrainian U-19 championship it is a real sensation. The leader of the standings all winter will not be Dynamo or Shakhtar, but Lviv's Rukh. Although Vitaly Ponomarev's team became the leader not by more points, but by less losses. There is, of course, a big difference between these figures.

And yet "Movement" gave a very strong result. At the moment, Lviv has only two points less than Shakhtar, but there are two more games left. In case of victory in both these meetings, Ponomarev's wards will marry the miners. At the same time, Rukh has one point more than Dynamo, and in addition, the match is in reserve. In other words, the Lviv team has an advantage over a pair of grands by four points. Very solid.

In the previous one reviews During the November break in the national team championship, we speculated that Dynamo and Shakhtar players were too focused on UEFA Youth League matches. And this statement makes sense, because it is difficult to psychologically switch from "Inter", "Benfica" or "Bavaria" to the Ukrainian realities, even for adults, not to mention young people under 19 years old.

By the way, Dynamo partially fulfilled its task in the Champions League and, having scored three points in the matches against Bayern (2: 1) and Benfica (0: 1), reached the next stage of the tournament. But the defeat in Portugal moved Igor Kostyuk's team from the first step to the second and did not let in the 1/8 finals directly. Now in the playoff round, which will take place on February 8-9, 2022, Dynamo will play away against Spanish Deportivo and only if they win will reach the 1/8 finals.

Shakhtar's Oscar Ratulutra did not leave the group at all, losing in the 5th round to Inter (0: 1). Even the crushing victory over the Sheriff (6: 0) did not allow to rise above the third step and ahead of either "Inter" or "Real".

Still, the achievements of Rukh, which currently has the most reliable defense in the championship, should not be underestimated by the Grand Prix games, which even Shakhtar failed to overcome in a personal meeting (0: 0, 15th round). A group of defensive players (Roman Didyk, Vitaliy Roman, Marko Sapuga, Denis Slyusar, Glib Savchuk, Yaroslav Karabin) has already received the trust of the demanding first team coach Leonid Kuchuk. Nice trend.

Give a chance to young players in other clubs. Many will be given the opportunity to show themselves at the winter training camp. For now, we will be happy with the very intriguing intrigue in the U-19 championship, where four teams are vying for gold medals, including a sensational newcomer to the Metalist 1925 tournament led by Roman Melnyk, who played in the course of the tournament and does not want to. stop.

Standings

Note: in parentheses - the team's place at the time of the last review of the Ukrainian championship (November 2021).

Scorers: Daniel KIVINDA (Dnipro-1) - 14, GILLERME (Zorya) - 13, Samba DIALLO (Dynamo) - 12, Danilo GONCHARUK (Shakhtar) - 11, Denis NAGNOYNY (Zorya) - 10 , Anthony EMERE ("Metalist 1925") - 9, Daniil ALEFIRENKO ("Zorya"), Emil MUSTAFAYEV ("Alexandria"), Ruslan NEPEIPIYEV ("Movement"), Maxim SMIYAN ("Zorya"), Anton TsARENKO ) - 8, Nazar VOLOSHYN (Dynamo), Anton GLUSHCHENKO (Shakhtar), Ihor HORBACH (Dynamo), Yaroslav KARABIN (Rukh) - 7.