A scandalous episode occurred at the end of the first half of the match between Shakhtar and Minaya in round 24 of the Ukrainian championship.
Volodymyr Sharan's team scored a clean sheet: after Dmytro Nemchaninov's strike, the ball, as seen on the replay, crossed the goal line, but the game's head referee Mykola Balakin mistakenly discounted that goal. After that episode, the referee sent the teams to half-time.
"Shakhtar won 1-0 after the first half thanks to Traore's goal.
