Gladky’s Extravagance, Jovichevich’s “Bitter” Debut and Vorskla’s Missing Shot – UPL Fourth Round Results

On the 4th day of the UPL there were no special surprises. Shakhtar and Dynamo won their matches. Zarya simply did not notice Lvov, and Alexandria met Igor Jovichevich “warmly” at his new workplace.

Furthermore, as expected, Desna turned out to be stronger than Rukh. 2 fights ended goalless – Vorskla – Mariupol and Kolos – Ingulets.

The class difference did not help the Shakhtar to overcome Rukh.

In the middle of the week, a postponed match of the second round of the Premier League was played, where Lviv Rukh hosted the champion of Ukraine, Donetsk Shakhtar. Rukh, who had previously lost both of his matches, was an obvious outsider to the confrontation, which the bookmakers’ quotes were yelling at.

However, the Lviv team managed to establish their counterplay and play into Shakhtar’s weak points. The first goal of this game was not scored without luck: Taras Stepanenko scored his own goal after a cross from the wing. After the goal conceded, Shakhtar was completely outnumbered when Valeriy Bondar got a red card.

But this didn’t stop the Pitmen from racking up on Ruh’s goal in the remaining time. A group of Tyson-Marlos managed to decipher one target, but no more. The Lviv team could have won this fight completely, if Rukh’s players had noticed the excellent attack in the last minute of the match. 1: 1. Shakhtar are starting this season strong and are experiencing obvious problems on the defensive line.

Sure victory for Dynamo

Kievans played UPL rookie Minaya. The Transcarpathian team was very quickly in the minority. Pavlish disappointed his team and already in the 14th minute Vasily Kobin’s charges were left with ten men.

The Dynamo pushed their opponent into the penalty area and secured a comfortable 2-goal lead already in the first half. In the second half, the Kievists continued their work and led the match to defeat. 4: 0.

It seemed that after Ghent the match against Minay could be a difficult test for the capital, but it turned out the opposite. This result allowed the Lucescu team to lead the classification for the first time in a long time. The difference between goals scored and conceded in 4 games seems very convincing (11-2).

The first Vorskla fault

Yuri Maksimov’s pupils for the match against Mariupol came out as the leader of the UPL with three wins from three matches. The fight against the Azov people turned out to be very combative and open. Despite the dry tie on the scoreboard, the game was quite interesting and rich in moments.

Both goalkeepers showed themselves very well and became the culprits of this result. Although Poltava was unable to continue his victorious march, both teams were satisfied with this result.

Cold shower for Jovicevic in the debut match

Croatian specialist Igor Jovichevich became the director of SC Dnepr-1 this week. Surely, he also didn’t have time to really study the strong qualities of all his players, and on the horizon there was a very strong rival at the wrong time: Vladimir Sharan’s Alexandria, who also failed the start of the season, and therefore the motivation of Alexandrian team was outrageous.

The miracle did not happen, and Alexandria confidently defeated the Dnieper-1. Bezborodko dropped the guests with a mad blow in the second minute. In the 34th minute, Gordienko doubled the score. Alexandria had every chance to score big in the first half, but Sarnavsky made several saves. In the second half, the picture did not change: Sharan’s team took the game to its logical conclusion, having obtained their second victory of the season.

What a pain, what a pain, Zarya destroyed FC Lviv 5: 0

The mysterious team from Lviv in the second round of the UPL was beaten mercilessly by Kolos 4: 0, but in the third round they showed a very good game in the match against Dynamo Kiev and had every chance to hold on to the points. in that match. It seemed that since the Lviv people looked so good in the match against the Kiev people, then the Lugansk people could cause trouble. That did not happen.

Skripnik’s team simply “tagged” their opponent in full. Lvov will long remember those attacking complexities of Zarya’s soccer players. The hosts of this fight simply did not have time anywhere in this match, and the goals flew to Litovchenko’s gates one after another. 5-0 in the first half. We celebrate Alexander Gladky’s delightful return to UPL. In his first game, in which Gladkyy started from the first minutes, he scored a double. He helped his partners well, he himself could score more. We also scored twice as Artem Gromov in this fight.

The words of Lvov coach Vadim Deonas sounded strange after the match that Lvov had not studied his opponent very carefully.

Not without difficulty, but 3 points

The Donetsk derby took place in Kiev at the NSC Olimpiyskiy between Olympic and Shakhtar. After the Pitmen lost points in the game against Rukh, it seemed like Olimpik was in love today, and the Orange-and-Blacks would do their best to rehab in front of their fans. In the first half, Shakhtar did everything well, but couldn’t score. Somewhere we were unlucky in the final stage, somewhere Olympian Artem Kichak helped.

The second half started with good attacks from Olimpik, Shakhtar could once again be in the role of catching up. When the nervousness in the actions of the Pitmen players began to grow, Kovalenko nevertheless scored and eased the accumulated tension, and after 2 minutes, Junior Moraes established a comfortable 2-0 Castro for the team. Shakhtar brought the fight to its logical conclusion and won such an important and very difficult victory.

The irrepressible Totovitsky

The match between Desna and Rukh was interesting in terms of how both teams will prepare after their mid-week matches. Desna had a difficult trip to Germany behind him back, where Ryabokon’s team lost to Wolfsburg in the Europa League. Rukh had a completely different emotional background. Lviv achieved a draw in the match against Shakhtar.

And if Rukh left his team unchanged, Chernihiv’s team applied the rotation and new players appeared on the field. From the first minutes it was clear that Desna would be the “host” of the match. The Chernihiv footballers ordered the ball at their feet and launched their attacks one after another. We managed to win a very quick penalty, which was converted by Totovitsky. Although Rukh managed to recover, Desna that night was much more inventive in the attack than usual. Separately, we note Andrei Totovitsky, who, with his individual actions, simply terrified the players of the Rukh defense.

Ingulets and Kolos painted the world

After the Croatian qualifiers in the Europa League, it is to be expected that Ruslan Kostyshin will change his team’s starting line-up enormously. Only 3 players, who started against Rijeka, appeared on the base and in the match against Ingulets: Volynets, Novak and Kravchenko.

Such changes, of course, influenced the Kovalevites’ game drawing. Both teams had scoring opportunities and both teams were unaware of them. Kolos was a bit more active in attack, but this did not affect the number of goals scored in the match. Lavrinenko’s players are making their third draw in the Premier League. Ingulets already has 3 points, but still without victories.

Player stats

Viktor Tsygankov joined the scoring race and edged out Shahab and Stepanyuk, each with 3 goals scored. Among those in attendance, Vladislav Kalitvintsev took the lead thanks to his assistance to Philip Budkovsky.

Tournament table

We noticed that Vorskla tied, this allowed Dynamo Kiev to catch up with Poltava and even with them on points. Shakhtar and Desna climbed to 3-4 places while Zarya managed to push the bottom and is now in ninth place. Lvov still seems the most desperate of all: 0 points in 4 games with 1 scored and 12 conceded.

Next round

The fifth round of the UPL will definitely not be boring. Immediately 2 clashes claim to be central in the round: Dynamo Zarya and Desna Shakhtar. The clashes between Kolos Mariupol and Olympic Alexandria look very nice. But the representatives at the bottom of the tournament table will be able to score points in the games between them.

UKRAINE. PREMIER LEAGUE, ROUND 5

Sergei Gorbachenko, Football.ua