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Alexander Golovko, Oleg Luzhny, Vladimir Yezersky, Andrey Rusol and many others. Unlike strikers, Ukrainian football gives birth to strong defenders individually. Previously, in general, it was a kind of “fetish” for the latitudes of Ukrainian football: the game was built with an emphasis on the discipline of defense, and already on the principle of “hit and run”.
If you do not delve into the distant past, but take into account only modern times, then there are various stories related to the Ukrainian defenders and their game against the strongest attackers in the world. Yevgeny Khacheridi during his heyday closed the formidable Diego Costa “hermetically” in the Champions League match, Artem Fedetskiy did not let Franck Ribery breathe in the match for the Ukrainian national team, and recently Valeriy Bondar overcame the hardening of the powerful and ruthless Romelu Lukaku. Denis Popov doesn’t have those “chips” yet. It is the product of the Dynamo academy, a footballer with whom the future of the Kiev club is tied and who, after the “hip hip” of the traitor, according to Dynamo fans, Junior Moraes in one of the Classic series, became in symbol of the renewal of the Dynamo team. However, yesterday’s game against Barcelona clearly demonstrated the talent of the young people from Kiev behind their teammates from Catalonia.
All Barcelona players can roughly be divided into two groups: veterans with experience and authority (“sacred cows,” as fans like to say) and talented and promising youngsters. These young people are not only a product of La Masia (Oscar Minguez, Ricky Puig, Konrad, Ansu Fati, etc.), but are also the result of the club’s transfer policy (Trinkau, Dest, Pedri, etc.). And there are several players that cannot be attributed to one or the other group. Neither fish nor birds. Such a little liquid product. Martin Brightwhite is one of those players.
And it was he who yesterday made a double against Dynamo Kiev. In Spain, they are surprised: in thirteen minutes Martin Brightwhite scored more in Ukraine than in the previous year (he moved to the Camp Nou in February 2020) during his stay in Barcelona (one goal). No, the Dane did not instantly become a top level player and did not change his status to “Camp Nou”, they plan to get rid of him once. The Dane showed how weak the defense was in particular and the game of Dynamo Kiev in general. If Brightwaite’s first goal is the merit of his partners, the second is Martin’s individual work coupled with the failure of the Dynamo defenders. In particular, Denis Popov.
The young stopper first lost his riding team position to Brightwhite and then, the moment the Dane cleverly fired at Buschan, shoved him from behind. Only out of desperation, oppression, devastation. This error is more a consequence of emotional imbalance than lack of physical preparation, which Mircea Lucescu spoke of in the context of Popov.
Khacheridi, Fedetskiy, Bondar … Here’s a new story, but with sad overtones.
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