Artem Frankov: "Last season's leaders have turned into some not-so-defined substances"

Famous journalist Artem Frankov shared his prediction for today's match of the 8th round of the Ukrainian championship between Lugansk "Zorya" and "Dnipro-1".

"The leaders of last season in the new season have turned... no, not that into outsiders, but into some not too definite substances.

"Zori", sensing the most difficult problems, appointed Nenad Lalatovic instead of Patrick van Leeuwen (he was poached by Shakhtar), then got rid of him, temporarily trusting Nenad Bartulovic, and then to some extent permanently - Valeriy Kriventsov.

"Dnipro-1" and in general pulled the whole system, releasing both Evgeniy Krasnikov and Oleksandr Kucher, finally appointing as head coach their former player, the most famous specialist Yuriy Maksimov.

I agree with the bookmakers: the home field factor is absent here, the teams meet in Lviv, and therefore Zorya's fatigue after the European Cup match with Gent, in which the Luhansk side heroically snatched a draw, comes to the fore.

It was a bit out of character, because the Belgians could have snatched victory a couple of times in the final minutes. However, Zorya clearly woke up and played their main forward Guerrero, who means no less for the team than Dovbik did for Dnipro 1 recently. I predict his goal today," Frankov said.

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