This weekend, matches of the 9th round of the Ukrainian Championship are being held. In one of them on Sunday, October 23, Dynamo Kiev and Vorskla Poltava met. The fight took place in Kyiv at the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky.
Photo — Oksana VasilyevaChampionship of Ukraine. 9th round
"DYNAMO» (Kyiv) — VORSKLA» (Poltava) — 1:1 (1:1)
Goals: Buyalsky (33) — Yurchenko (44)
Warnings: Sirota (16), Kabaev (21) — Zaikov (90+2)
"Dynamo": 35.Neshcheret - 94.Kendzera (2.Vivcharenko, 59), 34.Sirota, 4.Popov, 20.Karavaev - 5.Sidorchuk (K), 22.Lonveik - 15.Tsygankov, 29.Buyalsky, 7.Kabaev ( 19.Garmash, 59) - 41.Besedin (11.Vanat, 74).
Spare: 74.Ignatenko, 75.Avramenko, 6.Burda, 8.Shepelev, 9.Parris, 21.Kravchenko, 24.Tymchik, 28.Kulach, 30.Diallo.
Vorskla: 31.Riznyk, 3.Zaikov, 4.Perduta, 6.Sklyar, 16.Seferi, 17.Chesnakov, 20.Kravets, 29.Batsula, 33.Marlison, 38.Chelyadin (7.Oleynik, 78), 80.Yurchenko (11. Stepanyuk, 86).
Spare: 51. Isenko, 8. Kravchuk, 10. Totre, 13. Yavorsky, 15. Kulakovsky, 18. Pavlyuk, 19. Kozyrenko, 61. Domolega, 89. Richards, 95. Felipe.
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Dynamo confidently started this match, immediately transferring the game to the half of the Vorskla field. However, the guests defended absolutely calmly, confidently, not allowing the opponent to create even a hint of sharpness. At the same time, Poltava soon quite clearly indicated their desire to counterattack. And in the end, the game took on a painfully familiar pattern: the Dynamo team plays first, but they don’t create sharpness, and their rivals regularly counterattack.
But in the 33rd minute of the meeting, Dynamo still managed not only to find their moment at the Vorskla gate, but also turn it into a goal. Besedin, having responded in the penalty area of the Poltava team to a mounted pass from the right flank, performed a discount on Buyalsky, and he immediately sent the ball into the net with a shot from the goalkeeper's line - 1:0. Moreover, three minutes later, Lonwijk made an excellent shot from outside the penalty area, and Riznyk, with great difficulty in the throw, turned the ball into a corner.
However, Dynamo failed to keep the winning score until the whistle for the break. At the 44th minute of the meeting, Lucescu's wards allowed the opponent to carry out a penetrating attack, the ball ended up in the penalty area and after a pass to Yurchenko, who hit the target from six meters away - 1:1. It was with this score that the first half ended.
From the first minutes of the second half of the meeting, Dynamo began to literally storm the gates of Vorskla. And in the 60th minute of the meeting, Karavaev was obliged to score, however, being one on one with Riznyk in the center of the penalty area, he shot past the goal, which was some seven meters away. Later, Sidorchuk scored an excellent cannon shot from 20 meters - the goalkeeper of Poltava reacted, but failed to hold the ball, and immediately three Dynamo players did not have enough of a fraction of a second to have time to finish off. Finally, in the 79th minute, Buyalsky effectively executed a free kick, and the ball flew right next to the Vorskla goal post. Well, the "white-blue" did not manage to achieve more, although they continuously attacked until the final whistle. As a result, a draw is 1:1.
As a result, Dynamo scored 10 points after seven games played, and is still in the middle of the Ukrainian Championship standings.
In the next round, Dynamo is waiting for another home match - with Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih. This meeting will take place next Sunday, October 30 (beginning at 17:00).
Alexander Popov
