"Zorya players simply refused to take the field in the match with Dynamo" - source

Former journalist Igor Burbas said why Luhansk "Zorya" in yesterday's match with Kyiv "Dynamo" (0:2) in the 21st round of the championship of Ukraine played not its main squad.

"Why exactly before "Dynamo" the players of "Zorya" decided to organise a boycott. I will tell the backstory.

At the end of the first part of the season the team had a meeting with the owner Evgeniy Geller, where the issue of debts was voiced to him. Namely, the promised but unpaid bonus for the third place in the UPL and separately for participation in the main tournament of European cups.

Geller advised the players, before asking this question, to first look at the current standings, where at that moment Zorya were among the last. To get what he promised, he advised the guys to please him with the result. The team did it in the starting rounds after the holidays. 7 points in 3 games were enough to remind their claims for legitimate bonuses from the position of strength.

But before the game with Dynamo there were neither receipts nor an exhaustive answer. That's why we had to resort to extremes. The players simply refused to take the field. They have nowhere to retreat. After all, many have contracts expiring in the summer and they realise that if the bonus is not paid now, they can forget about it," wrote Burbas in his Telegram channel.