On the eve of the upcoming meeting between «Dynamo» and «Zorya» in the Ukrainian championship, which will take place this Saturday, October 18, at the Dynamo Lobanovsky Stadium, let’s see which players in the current line-ups of both teams are the top scorers of the confrontation.
From the current squad of «Zorya», defender Jordan and experienced forward Pylyp Budkivskyi have scored against «Dynamo». Both scored a goal each in the previous match between the teams, which took place in March this year.
Budkivskyi also scored against «Dynamo» while playing for Chernihiv’s «Desna» in the 2020/21 season.
Goals by active «Zorya» players against «Dynamo»:
1 — Budkivskyi, Jordan
In the Kyiv team, the «specialist» against «Zorya» is Vitaliy Buyalskyi, who has scored a total of 7 goals against the Luhansk club. Buyalskyi scored his first goal against «Zorya» on October 1, 2017, in a thrilling match that ended 4:4. His most recent was in the first-round match held in September last year, when «Dynamo» won 2:0.
Andriy Yarmolenko has scored five times against «Zorya». Interestingly, the first of these goals was back in the 2009/2010 season. Andriy scored a double in the match held on April 3, 2010, at the Avangard Stadium in Luhansk. Dynamo’s goal in that game was protected by the current team coach Oleksandr Shovkovskyi, and the attack was led by the current UAF president Andriy Shevchenko. The match ended with Kyiv’s victory at 2:0.
Goals by active «Dynamo» players against «Zorya»:
7 — Buyalskyi
5 — Yarmolenko
2 — Shaparenko
1 — Popov, Brazhko, Kabaev, Ponomarenko
Interesting fact
Interestingly, while playing for «Zorya», three «Dynamo» players have scored against their current club — Volodymyr Brazhko and Eduardo Guerrero in the 2022/23 season, as well as Oleksandr Karavayev in the 2018/19 season.