Shakhtar’s misfire in the game with a goal at the 21st second and Dovbik’s hat-trick: video reviews of UPL matches

On Sunday, April 2, matches in Odessa, Kovalevka and Kyiv finished the 19th round of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Championship of Ukraine. 19th round

April 2 (Sunday)

Chornomorets (Odessa) – Shakhtar (Donetsk) – 2:2 (Putria, 8, from the penalty spot, Salyuk, 40 - Kriskiv, 1, Gocholeishvili, 18). Junior compositions - 1:1.

“Miner”: Trubin, Hemp, Bondar, Matvienko, Gocholeishvili (Topalov, 72), Mikhailichenko, Sudakov, Kriskiv, Bondarenko, Nazarina, Traore (Sikan, 72).

In the first 20 minutes, the leader of the Ukrainian championship, Shakhtar, hit the gates of Odessa twice (Kryskov opened the scoring at the 21st second of the match!), but each time Roman Grigorchuk’s team managed to bounce back. The opponents went to the break with the score 2:2.

In the second half, the miners did everything possible to avoid losing the first points in 2023, but in vain. Chornomorets, who did not lose in the spring, held out, and now the miners are only one point ahead of Dnipro-1. .

Metallist 1925 (Kharkiv) - Dnipro-1 - 0:3 (Dovbyk, 71, 78, from the penalty spot, 81). Junior compositions - 1:3.

In the game at the Kolos stadium in Kovalivka, the UPL top scorer Dovbyk came on as a substitute in the middle of the first half, and scored a hat-trick in the second half in 10 minutes, increasing his goal scorer in the season to 15 goals.

“Dawn” (Lugansk) - “Movement” (Lviv) - 3:0 (Buleta, 18, from the penalty spot, Rusin, 64, Pogorely, 86). Junior compositions - 1:2.

The Lviv team, under the leadership of the new head coach Vitaly Ponomarev, who replaced Belarusian Leonid Kuchuk, failed to interrupt Zorya’s victorious march in 2023. After the resumption of the competition, the team of the Dutchman Patrick van Leeuwen has not yet lost a single point: four matches - four wins, including over Dynamo Kyiv.

“Lviv” - “Dynamo” (Kyiv) - 0:2 (Vanat, 52, Ramirez, 87). Junior teams - 0:3.

April 1 (Saturday)

“Alexandria” - “Vorskla” (Poltava) - 3:0 (Perdutaya, 26, in his own net, Kulakov, 41, Loginov, 78). Junior compositions - 1:1.

Metalist (Kharkiv) – Kolos (Kovalivka) – 0:0. In the 47th minute, Pryadun (Metalist) missed the penalty. Junior teams - 0:2.

“Veres” (Rivne) - “Kryvbas” (Krivoy Rog) - 1:2 (Bliznichenko, 82, from the penalty spot - Prikhodko, 51, Monday, 83). Ustimenko (Kryvbas) was sent off in the 60th minute. Junior compositions - 5:1.

“Minay” - “Ingulets” (Petrovo) - 1:2 (Kravchuk, 21 - Melnik, 84, in own net, Kovalev, 90+5, from the penalty spot). Junior teams - 0:0.

Command positions:

1. Shakhtar - 43 points (18 matches);

2. Dnepr-1 - 42 (18);

3. “Dawn” - 40 (19);

4. Dynamo - 36 (19);

5. “Alexandria” - 31 (18);

6. Kryvbas - 25 (19);

7. “Spike” - 24 (19);

8. “Ingulets” - 22 (18);

9. “Metalist 1925” - 21 (19);

10. Vorskla - 20 (19);

11. Chornomorets - 19(19);

12. “Minay” - 18 (18);

13. “Metalist” - 18 (19);

14. “Veres” - 18 (19);

15. “Movement” - 17 (18);

16. Lviv - 13 (18).

Scorers: 15 goals - Artem Dovbyk (Dnepr-1); eleven - Vitaly Buyalsky (Dynamo); 8 — Daniil Sikan (Shakhtar), Taulian Seferi (Vorskla); 7 - Mikhail Mudrik (Shakhtar), Maxim Tretyakov (Alexandria); 6 - Maxim Pryadun (Metallist), Viktor Tsygankov, Vladislav Vanat (both Dynamo), Oleksandr Pikhalyonok (Dnepr-1), Sergei Buletsa, Nazariy Rusin (both Zorya); 5 - De Paula Talles (“Movement”), Andrey Tsurikov (“Alexandria”), Igor Kiryukhantsev (“Dawn”), Pavel Orekhovsky (“Spike”).

In the 20th round of the UPL matches will take place: “Vorskla” - “Ingulets” (April 7); Dynamo - Minai, Shakhtar - Metalist, Kryvbas - Zorya, Dvizhenie - Veres (April 8); “Dnepr-1” - “Lviv”, “Alexandria” - “Chernomorets”, “Kolos” - “Metalist 1925” (April 9).

Earlier reported that “Shakhtar” after a shameful departure from the European competition easily beat “Movement”.

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