According to Ihor Burbas, there are all signs of a match-fixing in the match at the start of the first league between Mariupol and Metalist 1925, in which the Kharkiv team lost 0:1. The head coach of FSC Mariupol, Oleg Krasnopyorov, gave his assessment of the former journalist's conclusions:
Oleg Krasnopyorov. Photo: fscmariupol.com.ua"I have not read these statements by Burbas. But to make such far-fetched conclusions only after a sharp change in bookmakers' odds is just PR, a desire to attract attention. We no longer want to comment on anything. We don't do such nonsense. I believe that Mariupol defeated Metalist 1925 in a fair fight," Krasnopyorov said.
