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Viktor Skripnik’s charges won in the second consecutive match of the European competition, but in a parallel match Braga achieved the success he needed (1: 0).
December 03, 2020, 9:49 PM
The key clash stage in the group stage began in the middle of this week for the second biggest club tournament in the Old World, the UEFA Europa League, featuring Ukraine’s Luhansk Zarya. Viktor Skripnik’s charges started in Euroseason with extremely poor play in the first three matches, which actually left them in the status of an observer looking for hope before the last two rounds.
The Luganchans needed two victories of their own in the remaining two games, the first of which was scheduled for a home game against English Leicester, but must necessarily be accompanied by two failures by Portuguese Braga.
Brendan Rogers’ “Foxes” decided their overall task at this stage in advance, so they arrived in Ukraine with a clear awareness that it would be possible to carve a niche in the front row of Quartet G in the final round. For this reason, the English club’s starting line-up contained several unusual names, but already in the first half, Leicester lost out of nowhere to central defender Chaglar Seyuncu, who received a muscle injury.
Zorya had the initiative in the opening minutes, which made a notable difference from the showdown in England, which ended for her with a 0: 3 defeat in the first round. The home team reserved the right for the first scoring opportunity, but goalkeeper Ward managed to stop Kochergin’s shot from the left flank of the penalty area. Lester could not stay out of what was happening, so he began to level the situation early.
Luganchan was notably beset by opponents ‘flank counterattacks, at the end of one of which Under could have played, but, having received the ball on the right flank after Barnes’ pass, he fired away from the far post. The time interval from the middle of the first half to the break for fans of the Ukrainian team was not the most pleasant, but Zarya not only coped with the speed of the opponents, but once almost punctured those who responded thanks to a cannon shot from Tsyganiks, which the goalkeeper managed.
Of two worthy moments on both sides of the field, the teams entered the facts of the second half: Under again aimed unsuccessfully from his zone, but Yurchenko was much closer to the goal, completing Kochergin’s service from the left wing with your head on the crossbar. The preconditions for a decent result of the struggle for the Lugansk people arose precisely during this period of time, but before the next aggravation on the football field they had to wait a decent number of minutes of play.
The guests fell back extremely dangerously right at the beginning of the last quarter of an hour, but Vasil’s heroic rescue, at first, saved the people of Lugansk from Barnes’s blow from the left flank and finished off Maddison, then allowed the shot to consolidate. previously accurate shot by Allahyar Sayyadmanesh on the empty goal at the end of Favorov’s shot from the right. outflanking the penalty area. Surprisingly, it turned out to be an exciting match for Viktor Skripnik’s team, but if sad news about Braga’s goals in a parallel match in Athens still didn’t come along the way …
In the last round, Luhansk Zarya will play an away game against Portuguese Braga, while Englishman Leicester will host Greek AEK at home.
Zarya – Leicester 1: 0
Goal: Sayyadmanesh, 84
Dawn: Vasil – Favorov, Ivanisenya, Abu Hanna, Tsyganiks – Nazarina – Yurchenko, Kochergin – Kabaev – Gladky (Sayyadmanesh, 81), Gromov (Perovich, 90 + 3).
Leicester: Ward – Ricardo (Thomas, 46), Morgan (Fuchs, 56), Seyunju (Fofana, 17), Justin – Ndidi (Mendy, 56), Chowdry – Under, Prat (Maddison, 78), Barnes – Iheanacho.
Warnings: Tsyganiks, Nazarina – Pereira, Iheanacho, Mendi, Fofana.
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