In the 2nd round of the English championship, “Brentford” narrowly defeated Birmingham’s “Aston Villa” (1:0). In the starting lineup of the “Bees,” Ukrainian midfielder Yegor Yarmolyuk played for 79 minutes. This match was the 60th in the EPL for the 21-year-old player.
Thus, Yarmolyuk has surpassed the current head coach of the Ukrainian national team, Serhiy Rebrov, who has 59 matches in the EPL (“Tottenham” — 10 goals and 7 assists).
Yegor Yarmolyuk has not recorded any goal contributions in his 60 matches in the English Premier League while playing for “Brentford.”
The top 5 Ukrainians by the number of matches played in the EPL is as follows:
1. Oleksandr Zinchenko (“Manchester City,” “Arsenal”) — 145 matches.
2. Vitaliy Mykolenko (“Everton”) — 110 matches.
3. Oleg Luzhny (“Arsenal,” “Wolverhampton”) — 81 matches.
4. Illya Zabarnyi (“Bournemouth”) — 78 matches.
5. Andriy Yarmolenko (“West Ham”) — 66 matches.
It is worth noting that in the first two rounds of the EPL, the Ukrainian has consistently appeared in the starting lineup of the “Bees.”