We managed without Maksimov. Vorskla did not allow Olympic to enter the European competition zone

Both teams showed good results at the beginning of the season. The Olympians won three victories, showing significant play in attack, losing only to Dynamo and Shakhtar, while Vorskla put on a five-match win streak and placed in the top three. However, it was the hosts who were considered the favorites of the match. In the pause for the matches of the national teams, the coronavirus reached Vorskla, so the team’s head coach, Yuriy Maksimov, could not manage his loads, Child, Sklyar and Kane were absent, and Poltava’s request for the match was incomplete. The “Olympians” had no problems with payroll, the only surprise was the absence of attack leader Shahab at the start, whose place was taken by Kargbo.

The first minutes were spent in a more or less even fight, after which the hosts took the ball under their control and locked the opponent in their half of the field. To all Vorskla’s problems was added the injury to Sapai, who had to give up his place to the young Chelyadin already in the 11th minute. Poltava’s central defender Alyun acted without much confidence at the beginning of the match, “thank you” to whom there were two times tension near Riznyk’s goal. At first, the tall Frenchman almost cut the ball into his own net after a lumbago, but the goalkeeper was alert, and minutes later Allun presented the ball to Kargbo in front of his own penalty line, and Riznyk reacted to his shot. There was a good moment for Polito, who burst into the penalty area from the left and shot into the far corner with the back, Riznyk hit the ball in front of him, and Zaviyskiy who was in front of the goalkeeper was offside.

The initial activity of the Donetsk team was quickly replaced by a hiatus, the hosts continued to control the ball, but as time passed, more and more fights were taking place away from the Poltava team’s gates. After a third of the game, the guests also created their own mini-moment, when Kichak rushed out of the goal towards the corner of the penalty area, but Vasin, who was ahead of the goalkeeper, failed to shoot in the goal. desired trajectory and hit the goalkeeper with the ball. he did not play enough, so the result on the scoreboard was a reflection of the events that were taking place on the field.

After the break, Poltava added in terms of movement and ball control, and it was they who dictated their conditions to the rival in the first minutes. Such a position and the team’s play in attack could not with the hosts’ head coach, Klimovsky, who soon made a double substitution at once, strengthening the attack with the release of Shahab and Benito. However, the substitutions did not affect the general nature of the match. On the contrary, the rivals began to play more carefully and practically stopped threatening the goal between them.

The goal against Olimpik came unexpectedly. Puzlin from the center line of the field made a single shot into the penalty area, where two central defenders of the hosts simultaneously allowed Shcherbak, who had recently entered as a substitute, to grab the ball and launch Kulach in attack. Kichak would almost certainly have been hit by a weak striker from the goalkeeper’s corner, but the guests were helped by a rebound from Tsymbalyuk’s leg, after which the ball ended up in the net.

Only after conceding the ball did the Olympians pick up the pace and were soon able to level the score, but Riznyk took the ball off a superb free-kick from Teixeira. …

For the first time in history, Vorskla kept his goal intact in the away game against Olimpik and, after today’s victory, he caught up with the Dynamo on points, losing to the leader only on goal difference. In the next round, today’s rivals will face very tough matches, Poltava will play Shakhtar at home, while Olimpik will face a difficult trip to Chernihiv.

Ukrainian Premier League. 6th round.

Olympic – Vorskla – 0: 1

Kulach, 70

Teixeira, 45, Alvarenga, 47 – Yakubu, 46, Reznik, 90 + 4

Yakubu, 90 + 2 (repeated warning)

“Olympic”: Kichak – Lebedenko, Snurnitsyn, Tsymbalyuk, Pasich – Babenko – Teixeira (Chogadze, 84), Zaviysky (A. Kravchuk, 75), Politylo (Romanovsky, 84), Alvarenga (Benito, 57) – Kargbo (Shahab, 57).

Vorskla: Reznik – Sapay (Chelyadin, 11), Alyun, Chesnakov, Yakubu – Vasin (Shcherbak, 64), Putzlin, Perduta, Semilet (D. Kravchuk, 46) – Stepanyuk, Kulach.

Referee: Vladimir Novokhatny (Kiev).

Stadium: Dynamo them. V. Lobanovsky (Kiev).

Shots (on target): 10 (5) – 3 (2)
Corner: 1-2
Offside: 3-0.

OLYMPIC VORSKLA. ONLINE TRANSMISSION OF THE MATCH

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