Championship of Ukraine U-19: the second part of the tournament starts

21.02.2023 13:00

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Today, with the postponed match of the 9th round, "Minai" — "Shakhtar", the championship of Ukraine U resumes. Although the main program of the spring part of the 2022/2023 season will begin as planned — in early March.

The schedule of the 16th round is tentatively as follows:

March 2: "Kryvbas" - "Kolos";

March 3: "Dynamo" - "Ingulets", "Alexandria" - "Dnipro-1", "Veres" - "Chornomorets";

March 4: "Vorskla" - "Zorya", "Metalist" - "Rukh", "Metalist 1925" - "Shakhtar";

March 5: "Lviv" - "Minai".

Although there may well be changes in this schedule, given the fact that on March 1, the training camp of the youth national team of Ukraine, which will prepare for the matches, should begin elite round qualification for Euro-2023 (U-17). The games themselves will take place on March 7 (Cyprus), 10 (Ireland) and 13 (Italy).

Football players born in 2006, from which the coach of the U-17 national team of Ukraine Yuriy Moroz will make up his team, were involved in the Ukrainian U-19 championship quite a lot. Only "Dynamo" and "Ingulets" did without them in the first part of the season. Yes, "Dynamo" - only because its entire youth team born in 2006, led by coach Oleksiy Drotsenko, played for "Zorya" in the fall of 2022 (20 players of this age category entered the field).

The second place in terms of the number of players in the 2022/2023 season in the U-19 championship born in 2006 belongs to "Metalista" (16, plus one - born in 2007), the third - to "Minaya" (12). Next in the rating are Dnipro-1 (7+1), Kolos, Kryvbas, Metalist 1925, Chornomorets (6 each), Lviv (5+1) and Shakhtar (4). ).

Also for the plan-calendar of the national teams for 2023 On March 18, the NTZ will begin with another youth national team of Ukraine - made up of football players born in 2004. It will stretch until March 28, within its limits Serhiy Nagornyak's wards will play their matches of the elite round of qualification for Euro-2023 (U-19): on the 22nd — against Luxembourg, on the 25th — against Denmark, on the 28th — against Spain. 

Returning to the U-19 Championship of Ukraine, we note that according to the decision of the UAF KDK dated 22.12.2022, in the postponed match of the 7th round between "Chornomorets" and "Kryvbas" (held on 01.12.2022), the Odessa team was awarded a technical defeat with a score of 0:3 , and their opponent - a technical victory with a score of 3:0. Although the game itself ended in favor of "Chornomorets" (2:0), so, compared to the last one review, there were changes in the standings: "Kryvbas" scored three points and climbed to the eighth place with 19 points, while "Chornomorets", on the contrary, lost three points (12-3=9) and fell to 14th place.

During the winter, there were also changes of coaches in some teams. So, "Dnipro-1" introduced a new U-19 team captain - Imad Ashur (Hennadiy Shchekotylin worked before him). The story is the same in "Alexandria" - Viktor Bytsiura, who once, by the way, managed the Dnipro team instead of Oleksandr Karpov.

Apparently, such reshuffles at the coaching bridge of "Alexandria" are a signal that the club's management is not very satisfied with something. Although, if you look at the standings, only the current giants of the U-19 championship are higher, one of which, Shakhtar, was forced by the Alexandrians to fight for the third step. But if the miners were still torn on two fronts in the autumn, then after the February failure in the play-off round of the UEFA Youth League in the confrontation with the Croatian "Hajduk" (Oscar Ratulutra's wards lost with a minimum score of 0:1), they will be fully focused on the championship of Ukraine.

And here is "Rukh", which in the same playoff round of the Ukrainian Football League in the penalty shootout overcame the barrier in the form of the Italian "Inter" and on February 28 in the 1/8 finals will play against another representative of Italy, "Milan", still has a double load.

Standings

Scorers: Vladyslav POGHORILY (Shakhtar) — 15, Yaroslav BAZAEV (Alexandria) — 9, Andriy MATKEVICH (Dynamo), Denys PIDGURSKY (Rukh), Timur TUTEROV (Colossus), Oleg FEDOR (Rukh) ), Anton TSYGANKOV ("Kryvbas") - 7, Ilya KVASNYTSYA ("Movement"), Vitaly LOBKO ("Zorya"), Denis TESLYUK ("Movement"), Dmytro CHERNYSH ("Vorskla"), Dmytro SHOSTAK ("Alexandria" ), Oleksandr Yushchenko (Shakhtar) — 6, Ihor HORBACH (Dynamo), Ivan DAVIDENKO (Alexandria), Yuriy MYKHAILIV (Lviv), Danylo TUZENKO (Vorskla), Oleksandr YATSIK (Dynamo ) — 5.