This weekend, matches of the 15th round of the Ukrainian Championship are being held. In one of them, on Saturday, November 26, Dynamo Kyiv and Metalist 1925 Kharkiv met. The fight took place in Kyiv at the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky.
Photo — Oksana VasilyevaChampionship of Ukraine. 15th round
"DYNAMO» (Kyiv) — "METALLIST 1925" (Kharkiv) — 0:0
In the 44th minute, Tsygankov missed a penalty (goalkeeper)
Warnings: Karavaev (54), Besedin (90+1), Buyalsky (90+2) - Tkachuk (24), Kurilo (32), Kapinus (71)
"Dynamo": 35.Neshcheret - 20.Karavaev (9.Parris, 82), 4.Popov, 25.Zabarny, 2.Vivcharenko (44.Dubinchak, 62) - 5.Sidorchuk (C), 22.Lonveik (8.Shepelev, 62 ) - 15. Tsygankov, 29. Buyalsky, 7. Kabaev (19. Garmash, 46) - 11. Vanat (41. Besedin, 46).
Spare: 1.Buschan, 6.Burda, 18.Andrievsky, 21.Kravchenko, 24.Tymchik, 34.Sirota, 94.Kendzera.
"Metalist 1925": 37.Mozil, 29.Zhichikov, 3.Tkachuk, 17.Kurilo, 2.Kapinus, 6.Vachiberadze (8.Martynyuk, 57), 10.Rusin, 28.Gabelok (K), 27.Kravchenko (23.Hornet, 84), 11. Remenyuk, 9. Boryachuk (79. Chiruk, 76).
Spare: 1.Sidorenko, 13.I.Potimkov, 4.Kovalenko, 8.Martynyuk, 19.Zubkov, 21.Bychek, 22.Dmitrenko, 48.Vendel, 69.Yu.Potimkov, 77.Dudik.
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Dynamo started this match very actively and from the very first minutes of the game pressed Metalist 1925 to the goal. The Kievans in this segment of the meeting attacked literally continuously, forcing the opponent to play completely without the ball. But Dynamo didn’t manage to bring the matter to scoring chances (you can only note Buyalsky’s kick from 20 meters, after which the ball flew over the crossbar), and closer to the 15th minute of the match, the Kharkiv team managed to slightly move the game away from their own penalty area.
In the future, the game was still held with the full advantage of Dynamo, however, the defense of the guests began to act more reliably and calmly, and the pressure on the Metalist 1925 goal was not at all the same as it was in the debut of the match. In this situation, it became even more difficult for Lucescu's wards to create scoring chances.
Nevertheless, at the end of the first half, Dynamo were obliged to open the score: Sidorchuk, who joined the attack of his team, was knocked down by Vachiberadze in the Kharkiv penalty area, and the referee awarded a penalty. Tsygankov, as expected, approached the "point", punched hard, but Mozil managed to cope with this blow.
The second half was also dictated by Dynamo, but the problem of creating scoring chances has not gone away either. For a long time, the only thing that the people of Kiev threatened the gates of Metalist 1925 were strikes from medium distances. But some of them turned out to be inaccurate, while Mozil coped with the rest. But the guests in the 59th minute of the meeting almost achieved success - it was Boryachuk who went one on one with Neshcheret, but, fortunately for the Dynamo team, he failed to beat the goalkeeper.
Dynamo created its first scoring chance of the second half (and of the match in general) only in the 68th minute. The protracted combination of "white-blue" was completed by Buyalsky, gently throwing the ball into the goalkeeper's area, counting on Garmash, Mozil "read" this pass, but hit the ball right at the free Shepelev - he punched through the goal from some two meters, but managed not hit the mark.
Well, at the end of the match, Buyalsky had three chances in a row. Twice he shot from outside the penalty area, but Mozil saved his team in these cases. And then the leader of the Dynamo attacks struck a shot from 20 meters - this time the ball whistled over the crossbar. This ended the events of the game. As a result, a draw, 0:0.
After the games played, Dynamo takes 3rd place in the standings, three points behind the second-placed Shakhtar, and eight points behind the leading Dnipro-1, but at the same time, they played one match more than the Donetsk team and Dnieper. At the same time, Zorya, which is only one point behind Dynamo, also has a match in hand.
Let us add that the 15th round closes the autumn part of the Ukrainian Championship-2022/23, but Dynamo is waiting for one more match this year: next Wednesday, Wednesday, November 30, the people of Kiev will play the postponed match of the 8th round with Metalist Kharkiv ". This meeting, like today's, will be held in Kyiv at the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky. The start is at 14:00.
Alexander POPOV from the Dynamo Stadium named after Valery Lobanovsky
