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Spanish side Girona have taken an unequivocal stance on the immediate future of their Ukrainian striker Artem Dovbik.

According to the authoritative publication AS, the agent of the 26-year-old player Oleksiy Lundovskiy informed the Girona management about the interest in Dovbik from a number of clubs (Italian Juventus and Napoli have been mentioned most often in this regard recently), but received a categorical answer: the striker will remain in his current team for at least one more season.

Recall that in the current season Dovbik played 36 matches for Girona in all tournaments, scored 20 goals, gave 9 assists and leads the list of scorers of the Primera at the end of the tournament.

Former Shakhtar Donetsk defender Oleksandr Kucher told what he expects from his former team's match against Dynamo Kyiv in the 28th round of the Ukrainian Championship, which will be held today in Lviv.

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Today, on 11 May, in the central match of the 28th round of the Ukrainian championship Dynamo Kyiv will play in Lviv with Shakhtar Donetsk. Bookmakers make it clear with their current quotes that they consider the Pitmen to be the favourites of this meeting.

Thus, bets on Shakhtar's victory in the upcoming game are now accepted at odds of 2.12, while the same indicator for Dynamo's success is 3.59. The odds for a draw are 3.63.

At the same time, the most expected result of the Shakhtar vs Dynamo match, based on the current quotes, is a 1-1 draw. The odds for such an event are 6.40.

The full rating of the most likely results of the main time of the Shakhtar vs Dynamo match based on the current quotes is as follows:

Draw, 1:1 - odds. 6.40

Shakhtar's victory, 1-0 - kff. 6.90

Shakhtar's victory, 2:1 - kff . 8.40

Dynamo win, 1-0 - kff. 8.50

Dynamo win, 2:1 - kff. 12.00

Shakhtar victory, 2:0 - kff. 12.00

Draw, 2:2 - kff. 12.00

Let us remind you that the match of the 28th round of the Ukrainian championship Shakhtar vs Dynamo will take place today, 11 May, in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium. Kick-off is at 18:00.

Second-league side Trostyanets have announced the appointment of renowned Ukrainian specialist Yuriy Bakalov as the team's head coach.

Nothing is reported about the details of the agreement with the 58-year-old coach.

"Trostyanets has a very ambitious project. It is important that the city and the club are recovering from the occupation and everything the Russians did here. So far, the last three games of this Second League championship will be the beginning of preparation for the new season, because the team faces high tasks" - said Bakalov to Trostyanets press-service.

We would like to add that Bakalov's last place of work was Lviv Rukh, where until recently he was in charge of the club's Academy.

This weekend will be held matches of the 28th round of the championship of Ukraine season-2023/24. The matches of the round will be played over three days - from Saturday to Monday.

11 May, Saturday

"Vorskla" - "Minai" (13:00, Poltava, stadium "Vorskla" named after Alexey Butovsky)

"Obolon vs Rukh (15:30, Kyiv, Obolon Arena stadium)

"Shakhtar vs DYNAMO (18:00, Lviv, Arena Lviv Stadium)

12 May, Sunday

"Alexandria" - "Dnipro-1" (13:00, Alexandria, stadium "Nika")

"Chornomorets" - "Metalist 1925" (15:30, Odessa, stadium "Chornomorets")

"Kryvbas" - "Polesie" (18:00, Kryvyi Rih, stadium "Gornyak")

13 May, Monday

"Kolos" - LNZ (15:30, Kovalivka, Stadium "Kolos")

"Zorya" - "Veres" (18:00, Kyiv region, Arena Leviy Bereg stadium)

Girona's Ukrainian internationals - midfielder Viktor Tsygankov and striker Artem Dovbik - have scored another goal for their team.

Already in the 4th minute of yesterday's match against Alaves, Tsygankov passed to Eric Garcia, who opened the scoring. And shortly before the half-time whistle, Dovbik was the assistant - after his pass the ball was sent into the net by Yangel Herrera.

Spanish Championship. 35th round

"Alaves " - "Girona " - 2: 2 (1:2)
Goals: Guridi (12, 90+9) - Eric Garcia (4, with a pass from Tsygankov), Herrera (44, with a pass from DOVBIK).

"Girona": Gassaniga, Martinez, Blind, Eric Garcia, Miguel Gutierrez (Juanpe, 59), Herrera, Martin (Aleix Garcia, 73), Porto (Jan Couto, 59), Tsygankov (Torre, 73), Savio (Fernandez, 84), Dovbik.

We would like to add that in the current season Tsygankov has played 31 matches for Girona in all tournaments and now has 6 goals and 5 assists. Dovbik has scored 20 goals and 9 assists in 36 matches for his team.

VIDEO of Tsygankov's and Dovbik's assists in the match against Alaves see in our TV channel

This weekend, the matches of the 28th round of the Ukrainian Premier League Championship among the Premier League clubs of the season-2023/24 will take place. One of these matches will feature Shakhtar vs Dynamo on Saturday, 11 May. The kick-off of the game, which will take place in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium, is at 18:00.

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Atalanta president Antonio Percassi has spoken about the club's plans to sign a full contract with Charles de Ketelare, who is on loan from AC Milan.

"We will do our best," Percassi was quoted as saying by journalist Fabrizio Romano on Twitter.

It is worth noting that the Belgian's contract with Atalanta includes a buyout option for €23 million plus an additional €4 million and 10% of the player's next sale.

Liverpool head coach Jurgen Klopp has commented on Borussia Dortmund's progress to the Champions League final.

"I am very happy for Borussia Dortmund. It's great to see that all these people we know are still fighting. This is a great, great achievement. It's a great story," journalist Ben Jacobs quoted Klopp on Twitter.

The Champions League final of the 2023/24 season will take place in London on 1 June. Borussia will face Real Madrid in the fight for the title.

The match of the 35th round of the Spanish championship took place. The match was held on 10 May. We offer you its results.

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Some matches of the 33rd round of the French championship took place. Here are their results.

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The owner of Romanian club FCSB Gheorghe (Gigi) Becali commented on the possible return of Mircea Lucescu to Rapid and the appointment of Dan Petrescu to CFR Cluj.

- Lucescu, Petrescu... I'm glad to see people like that coming back to Romania, it will create competition. Gilke (Constantin Gilke - head coach of Universitate Craiova - ed.) is not my size," said Bekali.