League of Europe. "Shakhtar" in a dramatic match defeated "Rennes" in a penalty shootout and reached the 1/8 finals

24.02.2023 00:53

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"Shakhtar" Donetsk beat the French "Rennes" in a penalty shootout in the second leg of the Europa League playoff round and made it to the 1/8 finals.

A week ago miners in Warsaw beat us "Rennes" with a score of 2:1. Now Ihor Jovichevich's wards played the return match in France. It should be noted that one of the heroes of the first match between Krysks, who was replaced by Topalov in the starting lineup, did not make it to Shakhtar's application.

The beginning of the meeting was marked by attacks from the hosts, and Trubin had to be rescued after the blows of Guiry, Spence and Truffer. Later, the miners took the game away from their own goal, and in the 22nd minute they even scored, but Traore's goal was canceled due to the ball hitting Bondarenko's hand. In the 28th minute, Mayer scored a goal, and in the future, the teams did not create any dangerous moments.

After the break, "Rennes" managed to open the scoring - in the 52nd minute, in the counterattack, Guiry gave a free kick to Toko Ekambi, who beat Trubin. Soon, Kalimuendo-Muinga could have scored, but at the last moment his shot was blocked by Bondar.

The players responded in the 66th minute when Mandanda pulled home a free kick from Konopli after Topalov's pass. Later, Truffer scored from a free kick. At the end of regular time, Shakhtar could have snatched a cherished draw, but Sikan failed to block Zubkov's cross. Shortly after, Truffer shot dangerously over the crossbar, and Trubin saved after Tait's shot from outside the penalty area.

The game went into extra time, where the hosts had the advantage. So, in the 102nd minute, Trubin came to the rescue after Guiry's kick from the U-turn. And at the start of the second extra-time, "Rennes" scored - Doku, after throwing on the right wing, broke into the penalty area and shot into an empty net for Salah.

However, Shakhtar managed to regain parity in the duel. In the 119th minute, after a pass by Jurasek, Belochan cut the ball into his own goal. The score 2:1 in favor of "Rennes" meant a series of penalties.

In the football lottery, Trubin parried three penalty kicks by opponents, and the decisive 11-meter penalty was realized by Kelsey, the debutant of the miners — 5:4 in favor of the Ukrainians. So the orange-black team made it to the 1/8 finals of the Europa League, the draw for which will take place on February 24 (starting at 13.00:XNUMX p.m. Kyiv time).

In the Shakhtar team, the players who were called up for the last training session of the national team took part in the match: Trubin, Bondar (yellow card), Matvienko (yellow card), Mykhailichenko (yellow card), Stepanenko (replaced in the 100th minute), Zubkov (replaced in the 112th minute).

League of Europe. Contact round. Match-answer

"Rennes" (France) — "Shakhtar" (Ukraine) — 2:1 (0:0, 1:0), p.p. 4:5

Goals: Toko Ekambi (52), Salah (106) — Belochan (119, own goal).

Penalty Series: D. Due — 1:0, Nazarina — 1:1, Doku — 1:1 (goalkeeper), Sudakov — 1:2, Meling — 1:2 (goalkeeper), Bondarenko — 1:3, Guiry — 2:3, Bondar — 2:3 (across the goal), Tait — 3:3, Sikan — 3:3 (crossbar), Omari — 4:3, Konoplia — 4:4, Ugochukwu — 4:4 (goalkeeper), Kelsey — 4: 5.

Rennes: Mandanda (c), Spence, Omari, Belochan, Truffer (Meling, 97), Doku, Santamaria (D. Due, 97), Mayer (Ugochukwu, 71), Toko Ekambi (Salah, 97), Kalimuendo-Muinga (Tait, 84), Guiry.

Substitutions: Alemdar, Salen, Rodon, Teat, Wu, G. Duet.

Trainer: Bruno Genesio.

Shakhtar: Trubin, Konoplia, Bondar, Matvienko, Mykhailichenko, Stepanenko (k) (Nazarina, 100), Zubkov (Kelsey, 112), Bondarenko, Sudakov, Topalov (Djurasek, 80), Traore (Sikan, 80).

Substitutions: Shevchenko, Pyatov, Totovytskyi, Taylor, Ocheretko, Farina, Kozik, Rakitskyi.

Trainer: Igor Jovichevich.

Referee: Tobias Stiler (Germany).

Booked: Spence (54) — Bondar (63), Traore (68), Mykhailichenko (82), Jovicevich (83, not on the field), Konoplia (90+4), Matvienko (120+2).

February 23. Rennes. "Roazon Park".

The first match - 1:2.