Journalist Volodymyr Zverov spoke about Dynamo's young striker Matviy Ponomarenko in his author's programme Zverov Pro Football.
- After the game, Lucescu said that he made a mistake by not including 17-year-old Matvii Ponomarenko in the application. But the trick is this. While in the UPL, according to the regulations, 23 players can be nominated for a match, in the Cup - 20 players. Dynamo didn't have a single forward in the reserve team, the most attacking player was Voloshin, a winger. It seems to me that before the match, they chose the squad for the match, and Ponomarenko was 21st.
Who is Matvey Ponomarenko? I wanted to tell you about him in previous issues. He was born in 2006 and has already scored 10 goals in the opening round of the U-19 Championship. He is a power forward, very tall and powerful, he naturally tramples and crushes opposing defenders. Last winter, Mircea Lucescu tried him out and gave him time at the training camp with the first team, but after that he had no chance. He is a striker for the U-19 team and he had a chance to play with Obolon, especially since Vanat, who is preparing for the match against Oleksandriya, was injured," the journalist said.