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The debut goal for Vasily Kobin’s team in Anton Shinder’s “elite” remained the only one (1: 0).
September 13, 2020, 3:54 PM
Finally, the last of the Ukrainian Premier League debutants, and indeed the First League champion last season, was waiting for the opportunity to debut in the “elite” championship. The game of the Transcarpathian Minai against FC Lviv was not celebrated due to the registration of a case of contagion by the coronavirus COVID-19 in the camp of the “golden lions”, so one of the games of the first round was postponed indefinitely .
Thus, the westernmost UPL team had a unique opportunity to start their performance in the top division with a home game against Alexandria, and even with a 25% occupancy of the stands of the Avangard stadium in Uzhgorod, where Minai will play their home matches.
Unlike rivals, Vladimir Sharan’s team managed to hold a match before the matches of the national teams. Oleksandriya left no chance for Mariupol (4: 1) in the field of his native “Nika”, after which he made a forced break with the rest of the teams. The representative of the Kirovograd region is not burdened with European battles this season, so he intends to continue laying the foundations to consolidate his position at the top of the ranking.
Alexandria began with great difficulties in the game of reports. At the usual pace of “polygraphs”, the opponents failed to take the defense. The standard clauses with the active participation of Banada did not help either. By the way, the guests still had a chance to score a goal, after a beautiful drawing of the flag, but Stetskov was already throwing the ball into his teammate’s head from offside. Oleksandriya also had a long-range shot from Myshenko in the first 45 minutes, which didn’t become a problem for Popovich, and that’s it, maybe.
Minaj survived the initial onslaught of rivals at minimal cost, after which he began to actively take advantage of counterattacks and his own standards at the opponent’s gates. The strong pressure of the transcarpathian team on the rivals’ possessions collapsed in the area at the end of the first half hour of play, and one of Kozhanov’s shots ended in a corner, from which Denis sent Shinder perfectly to the center of the game. penalty area. The degree of struggle in this was not exhausted, but before the break, the teams no longer created dangerous moments. Sharan wasn’t satisfied with his charges, but Kobin’s advice throughout the game was aimed only at ensuring that the team didn’t lose focus on standards. The other components of Minay seemed very confident.
From the opening minutes of the second half, Sharan’s substitutions only emphasized Alexandria’s problem areas in this match. Bezborodko took the field in hopes of completing the attacks Tretyakov was supposed to create, who also entered as a substitute in the first slot. This package never fully worked. The invited moments passed through Kovalets, whose activity towards the end of the match did not turn into a scored goal. Minaj sat firmly on defense, so even Kobin sometimes had to push his team away from the penalty area.
Sharan’s team advanced with great force, focusing on standard positions, for which Vladislav Baboglo was released on the field in the final stage of the match. The defender got his moment only in stoppage time, missed point-blank during a head blow, after which the “polygraph” attacks fell into a farce. Once the hosts successfully jumped on a counterattack, but Knysh, having passed Pankiv in the left corner of someone else’s penalty area, was unable to send the ball into the empty net from an acute angle. In the future, there remained only the joy of the footballers of the Transcarpathian region, as well as the spectators who were not afraid to come to the stadium in these difficult times for the whole world. The shock debut for beginners!
In the next round, Transcarpathian Minaj will have an invited duel against Donetsk Olympic, and Alexandria will have to fight at home with Poltava Vorskla.
Pass – Alexandria 1: 0
Objective: Schinder, 34
Pass: Popovich – Matkobozhik, Lopyrenok, Matic – Melichenko, Tkachuk, Nuriev (Golodyuk, 90 + 2), Sakiv – Kozhanov (Knysh, 67), Pinyashko (Snizhko, 83) – Shinder (Pavlish, 90 + 2).
Alexandria: Pankiv – Pashaev, Dubra, Gordienko (Baboglo, 87), Stetskov (Tretyakov, 46) – Banada (Gritsuk, 64), Grechishkin, Kovalets – Luchkevich, Sitalo (Bezborodko, 46), Myshenko (Ustimenko, 83).
Warnings: Shinder, Popovich – Pankiv, Grechishkin, Dubra, Gordienko, Ustimenko.
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