On Wednesday, December 4, the postponed match of the 1st round of the Ukrainian Championship will take place, where the leaders of the championship, "Oleksandriya" and "Dynamo", will meet. This will be the 34th meeting between the rivals, for which let’s take a look at who among the current players of both teams are the top scorers in the confrontation.
“Oleksandriya”
In the squad of "Oleksandriya", one of the best scorers in matches against "Dynamo" is the experienced forward Oleksandr Filippov, who has scored two goals while playing for Chernigiv's "Desna". Filippov also scored against his current team, first when he was playing for Kramatorsk's "Avangard" in the Ukrainian Cup. Later, he scored four goals against "Oleksandriya" in three matches during the 2019/20 season for "Desna", and last season he scored against Oleksandriya while playing for "Dnipro-1".
Kyrilo Kovalyets also scored twice against the Kyivans when he played for "Chornomorets", Artem Kozak scored against Kyiv while playing for "Polissya", and Dmytro Myshnyov scored against "Dynamo" while playing for different clubs — he scored one goal for "Mariupol" and one for "Zorya".
The current squad players who scored goals for "Oleksandriya" against "Dynamo" include Artem Shulyanskyi, Danil Skorko, and Brazilian Dzevani.
Oleksandr Filippov — 2 (while playing for "Desna")
Kyrilo Kovalyets — 2 (while playing for "Chornomorets")
Dmytro Myshnyov — 2 (while playing for "Mariupol" and "Zorya")
Artem Kozak — 1 (while playing for "Polissya")
Artem Shulyanskyi, Danil Skorko, Dzevani — 1 each
“Dynamo”
Among the players of "Dynamo", the best scorer in matches against "Oleksandriya" is Andriy Yarmolenko. He has scored 7 goals — 3 in the UPL seasons 2011/12 and 2016/17, as well as one goal in the Ukrainian Cup season 2015/16.
A little behind the vice-captain is the team captain Vitaliy Buyalskyi. He has scored against "Oleksandriya" 6 times.
Volodymyr Brazhko and Vladislav Vanat scored 3 goals each against the team from Kirovohrad region. Vanat scored one of his three goals while playing for "Chornomorets". Brazhko scored the only and winning goal in the previous match between the teams.
Andriy Yarmolenko — 7
Vitaliy Buyalskyi — 6
Volodymyr Brazhko — 3
Vladislav Vanat — 3 (including 1 while playing for "Chornomorets")
Denys Popov, Mykola Shaparenko, Volodymyr Shepelev, Oleksandr Andriyevskyi, Kostiantyn Vivcharenko, Nazar Voloshyn — 1 each
Maxym Braharu (while playing for "Chornomorets"), Oleksandr Karavaiev (while playing for "Sevastopol") — 1 each