Gunsmiths, foxes and double-headed eagles with Chygrynskiy. With whom to play Zarya in LE

Yesterday, in the draw held in Switzerland, the rivals of the “bronze” medalist of the last Ukrainian championship “Zorya” in the 2020/21 Europa League were announced. Being in the fourth basket, the people of Lugansk, of course, could not count on a simple draw, and as a result they got a fairly even and powerful group, in which it is very difficult to predict the outcome of the fight at this time.

However, the more interesting it will be for Zorya’s footballers to enter the field, and for the audience, to follow the performance of Ukraine’s only plenipotentiary in the Europa League. The Luhansk team will open the tournament for themselves by visiting Leicester, but it will be almost three weeks later, but for now, let’s get to know all of Zorya’s opponents in more detail.

Panties

General information: the club was founded on January 19, 1921. During almost a century of history, the “armeros” have never managed to win the title of Portuguese champion. Their main achievement in the national championship is second place in the 2009/10 season, when Braga lagged Benfica by 5 points. Twice more, including last season (thanks to which they got a direct ticket to the current Europa League), the “gunsmiths” became the “bronze” of the championship. The key trophies in Braga’s history are two victories in the Portuguese Cup (1965/66, 2015/16) and two triumphs in the League Cup there (2012/13, 2019/20). But in the Europa League the “gunsmiths” once (2010/11 season) even reached the final, where they lost to their compatriots in Porto (0: 1).

Coach: Carlos Carvalyal. This specialist is 54 years old. He started his coaching career in 1998, and works mainly at home, although he also has legionary experience (in Greece, with Asteras, in Turkey, with Besiktas and Istanbul Basaksehir, in England, with Sheffield Wednesday and Swansea). Braga had trained before, but that period was very short (July to November 2006). He began his current cadence in the field of “armeros” in August, having signed a contract until July 2022. The only trophy in his coaching career is the Portuguese League Cup, which he won in the 2007/08 season with the Vitoria de Setúbal.

Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates that the total value of the equipment is 98 million euros. Braga’s main assets are winger Ricardo Horta, 26, and striker Paulinho, 27, each with a contract valued at 12 million euros.

The oldest footballer of the “armourers” is the former center-back of the Portuguese team Rolando, 35, who during his career managed to play a lot for Porto, in addition to tasting legionnaire bread in Italy (Napoli and Inter), Belgium (Anderlecht “) and France (” Marseille “). He moved to Braga in February this year, and since then he has played only 3 games, playing, rather, the role of a” boy “in the dressing room.

We cannot ignore the person of the 32-year-old attacking midfielder Nicolás Gaitán, who has 16 games for the Argentine national team, as well as performances for Benfica and Atlético de Madrid. Gaitán returned to Portugal this summer, where he signed a one-year contract with Braga, but has yet to appear on the field due to health problems.

But the main young talent “Braga” in the summer for 31 million euros let himself go to “Barcelona”. We are talking about the 20-year-old winger Trinkan, who scored 8 goals and gave 6 assists in the last Portuguese championship in 27 games.

Last season in European competition: Last season, Braga played in the Europa League, where they managed to win Group K, beating Wolverhampton, Slovak Slovan and Besiktas. However, already in the 1/16 finals, the Portuguese lost their way further to German Bayer (2: 2, 0: 3).

FC Zarya

Matches against Zorya: Despite little experience in the Lugansk European Cup, Braga have already played against this team in European competitions. A draw brought the gunsmiths and Zorya together in the qualifying round of the 2018/19 Europa League. Then, at home, the Luhansk team drew 1: 1, and on the road they managed to achieve a 2: 2 tie, thanks to which they went further, but already in the qualifying round of the playoffs they lost to Leipzig.

LESTER

General information: the club was founded in 1884. Until recently, in addition to 7 Championship wins, Leicester’s main achievement was second place, won in the 1928/29 season, but the 2015/16 Premier League competition gave a tale Fairy to all Foxes fans, who became sensationally champions. In addition, Leicester has achieved three victories in the English League Cup and one Super Cup. In the last Premier League draw, the Foxes fought to the end for the Champions League zone, but nevertheless gave way to Manchester United and Chelsea, finishing fifth.

Coach: Brendan Rogers. The 47-year-old has worked with Watford, Reading, Swansea, Liverpool and Celtic throughout his career, before taking over Leicester last summer. He earned trophies in Scotland only, becoming a 2-time champion, 2-time Cup winner, and 3-time League Cup winner.

Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates the total value of the equipment at 469 million euros. The key “economic diamond” of this team is 23-year-old midfielder James Maddison, estimated by experts at 55 million euros. But even without him, there are enough expensive footballers at the fox camp: Wilfred Ndidi (45 million euros), Yuri Tielemans (44 million euros), Chaglar Seyuncu (40 million euros), Ricardo Pereira (32 million euros). Each of them is twice, or even more, more expensive than the entire current composition of Zorya (17 million euros).

Lester’s Twitter. James maddison

Leicester’s best veterans are Wes Morgan, 36, and Eldin Yakupovich. The former plays as a central defender, he is the captain of the team, but gets a bit of playing time, although it should not be ruled out that Morgan is actively used by the coaching staff in Europa League matches. As for Yakupovich, he is a staunch reserve goalkeeper who didn’t play a single first-team game last season. Of note is Jamie Vardy, 33, who became the Premier League’s top scorer with 23 goals last season.

There aren’t that many young footballers in Leicester’s first team. The most interesting of them, of course, is 19-year-old French center-back Wesley Fofana, whom the Foxes bought the day before in Saint-Etienne for 35 million euros.

Last season in European competition: Leicester was last announced in the 2016/17 UEFA Champions League when it entered the Champions League group as English champions. Then the Foxes won their quartet, where they also played against Porto, Copenhagen and Bruges, and then they reached the quarterfinals, where they lost to Atlético de Madrid (0: 1, 1: 1).

Matches against Zorya: I have not met before.

AEC

General information: the club was founded on April 13, 1924. It belongs to one of the three most titled clubs in Greece, with 12 league titles to its name, and is second only to Panathinaikos (20) and Olympiacos (45). Furthermore, AEK has 15 victories in the Greek Cup, but on the European level, the team can boast of having reached the 1968/69 European Cup quarter-finals and the 1976/77 UEFA Cup semi-finals. . In the last draw of the Greek championship, AEK took third place, and in the qualifying of the Europa League-2020/21 passed two hurdles in the form of the Swiss “St. Gallen” (1: 0) and the German “Wolfsburg” ( twenty-one).

Coach: Massimo Carrera. The 56-year-old specialist is best known for his work at Juventus (he replaced Antonio Conte when he was suspended in the 2012/13 season) and at Spartak Moscow, who managed to take gold in the Russian championship for the first time. in 16. years. In fact, that victory remains the main one in Carrera’s coaching career, who left Russia in October 2018 and has been working at AEK since December last year.

Human Resources: Transfermarkt estimates the total value of the equipment at 34 million euros. The club’s most valuable footballers are 27-year-old Croatian striker Marco Livaya (€ 4.5 million), 29-year-old Portuguese forward Nelson Oliveira (€ 4 million) and 29-year-old Greek midfielder Petros Mantalos (€ 4 million) euros), who is the captain of the team. … It was Oliveira who was AEK’s top scorer (14 goals) in the last Greek championship, and Mantalos was the best assistant (10 assists).

AEK’s Twitter. Dmitry Chygrynsky

The main veteran of the current AEK is the Ukrainian center back Dmitry Chygrynskiy, 33, well known among national fans. He has been playing in Greece since the summer of 2016, and has already won the title of the country’s champion in the 2017/18 season with the “double-headed eagles”. In total, Chygrynskiy has already played 105 games for AEK, scoring 5 goals and 2 assists.

Last season in European competition: Last season, AEK started qualifying for the Europa League. In the third round, the “double-headed eagles” passed the Romanian “Universitatea” (2: 0, 1: 1), but in the playoff round, according to the away goals rule, they lost to “Trabzonspor “(1: 3, 2: 0).

Matches against Zorya: I have not met before.