Donetsk " The meeting at the stadium " The Pitmen took the lead at the end of the first half, and they did it rather curiously. Pitmen's defender Mykola Matvienko decided to quickly take a free kick and sent the ball into the net while the opponent's goalkeeper Evgeny Past was building a wall. Chief referee Oleksandr Shandor counted the goal.

However, very quickly, luck returned the debt to the owners. Artem Bondarenko in the center of the field played with a straight leg against Iago Sicqueira, for which he received a direct red card. So the Orange-and-Blacks had to go into the minority for the second half. " After a corner kick, Shakhtar's goalkeeper Dmytro Riznyk made a mistake, after which the defender of the Rivne club Yevgeny Shevchenko sent the ball into the goal in a fall. None of the teams managed to score more before the final whistle.. As a result, a draw. Thus, Shakhtar lost the first points in the new UPL season. In the opening round, the Donetsk club won a modest victory over Metalist 1925 (1:2). " In the previous match, the Rivne team lost to Polesia (0:2). In the third round of the domestic championship, Shakhtar will play with Oleksandriya, and Veres will meet with Kolos. Both fights will take place on August 12.