In the Ukrainian Cup match between Obolon and Dynamo, a mistake by Volodymyr Brazhko decided the fate of the match and a ticket to the quarter-finals of the tournament. The Dynamo defender lost the ball near his own penalty area, which resulted in a goal by Ruslan Neshcheret.
Volodymyr Brazhko. Photo by Yurii YurievBrazhko is only 20 years old. Mistakes at his age are normal. You need to be understanding about it. Until he gets his feet wet, he won't be able to reach the highest level. Brazhko is still a young player. For such players, the main problem is the lack of stability. In the previous match, Volodymyr scored a beautiful goal for LNZ and was named the player of the match in Cherkasy, and a few days later he became the anti-hero of the Kyiv derby.
In the match between LNZ and Rukh, Lviv defender Bohdan Slyubyk brought two sticks into his own net, which cost Vitaliy Ponomaryov's team their first defeat. The mistakes were out of the blue. Ponomarev did not punish his defender, but put him on for the next match against Shakhtar, where Bohdan scored a goal in the last minutes of the match with a long-range shot that allowed Rukh to avoid defeat.
I really hope that Mircea Lucescu will understand Brazko's mistake and give him the opportunity to correct it, rather than punishing him with the bench in the match against Oleksandriya. Volodymyr is only in his second season in the UPL. He started this season as an understudy to Serhii Sydorchuk. Only after the ex-captain's transfer did he get a place in the starting line-up. A priori, his game tone cannot be high now.
Serhii Tyshchenko
