On Sunday, March 31, the programme of the 22nd round of the Ukrainian championship continued. Dynamo Kyiv also played their match. Oleksandr Shovkovskiy's team met Vorskla away.
Photo: A. PopovUkrainian Championship. 22nd round
"Vorskla" (Poltava) - " Dynamo" (Kyiv) - 1:5 (0:2)
Goals: Kovtalyuk (83) - Vanat (30), Brazhko (45+2), Shaparenko (47, penalty, 77), Yarmolenko (78).
Warnings: Chelyadin (66) - Tymchik (39), Sirota (75).
"Vorskla: Isenko, Krupsky, Felipe (Kovtalyuk, 70), Pavlyuk, Batsula, Kornienko, Nesterenko (Glushchenko, 68), Toli (Chelyadin, 48), Sissoko, Kane, Stepanyuk.
"Dynamo: Buschan, Tymchik (Karavaev, 80), Popov, Sirota, Dubinchak, Brazhko (Bilovar, 85), Andriyevskyi, Voloshyn (Diallo, 80), Shaparenko, Kabaev (Yarmolenko, 66), Vanat (Ponomarenko, 80).
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Kyiv started the match well, immediately gaining the advantage. And although Dynamo created the first dangerous moment at the gates of the hosts only by the middle of the first half, the game looked quite lively and interesting. As always, Vanat and Voloshin were active in attack. It was Nazariy who created the goal on 23 minutes: moving from the right flank closer to the centre, the midfielder of the Bilo-Syni shot into the far nine, but Vorskla was saved by Isenko.
Interestingly, Poltava responded immediately with a goal: after a corner kick, Felipe was himself near Buschan's goal, but shot over the goal from a few metres.
And yet it was Oleksandr Shovkovskiy's team that managed to open the scoring. Sirota performed a beautiful pass from his own half of the pitch to Vanat. Vladislav, having beaten the defender and the goalkeeper in the penalty area, beautifully parachuted the ball into the empty net - 0:1!
Just four minutes after the conceded goal, Vorskla created just a killer moment to level the score. Kane, having received the ball near the eleven-metre mark, shot past Buschan, but the goalkeeper was backed up on the line by defender Tymchik, who knocked the ball away with his head! The teams had just gained momentum, but then the match had to be interrupted due to an air raid, which lasted more than two hours at dusk!
After the forced pause the players of Poltava club increased their attack, forcing Buschan to save Dynamo several times. However, it was the Bilo-Syni that managed to score again: after a corner kick, Brazhko picked up the ball in the opponent's penalty area and shot hard down - Isenko touched the ball, but failed to parry the shot - 0:2. This officially ended the first half and, by agreement of the sides, the teams started the second half without a break.
And it all started again with another goal of Kyiv team. After a pass from the left flank from Kabaev into Poltava's penalty area, the home team's defender fouled Vanata and the head referee Alexander Shandor immediately pointed to the spot. Mykola Shaparenko accurately converted his shot from eleven metres, hitting a low shot into the corner of the goal - 0:3. All questions about the winner of the match were removed!
In the remaining twenty minutes of the game Dynaomvtsy on the spur of the moment brought the score to the obscene. First Shaparenko closed the pass from the left flank, hitting over Isenko - 0:4. However, a minute later, Andriy Yarmolenko, who returned to the field after injury, scored his own goal. He also masterfully shot over the Vorskla goalkeeper from the penalty line - 0:5!
Towards the end of the game Poltava managed to break the score: Kovtalyuk blocked a shot from the left flank from a few metres. This goal was very unhappy with Buschan, who obviously wanted to play "dry". Nevertheless, Dynamo crushes Vorskla with the score 5:1 and continues the fight for the championship!
We would like to remind you that Dynamo will play their next match in the Ukrainian Championship on Thursday, 4 April. It will be a rescheduled match of the 6th round of the UPL against Zorya. The meeting will take place in Kyiv at the Dynamo stadium named after Valeriy Lobanovskiy. The starting whistle will sound at 15:30.
Volodymyr BOBYR
