Midfielder Yegor Yarmolyuk, who recently scored an assist in the Premier League, played an anniversary match for the English Brentford and wrote his name in the history of Ukrainian football.

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The midfielder started in the fifth round of the English Premier League against Chelsea, spent 69 minutes on the field before being substituted and helped his team defeat the favorites with a score of 3:0.

22-year-old Yarmolyuk played his 100th match in the elite division of the English Championship. He became the third Ukrainian football player in history to reach this mark, Suspilne Sport reports..

First place goes to Alexander Zinchenko, who has 150 appearances for Manchester City, Arsenal and Nottingham Forest.. Everton defender Vitaly Mikolenko is second - 147 matches. The top 5 also includes Oleg Luzhny (81 matches) and Ilya Zabarny (78 matches).

Let us remind you that Yegor Yarmolyuk has been playing for the first team of Brentford since October 2023 after moving from Dnepr-1. The midfielder also has 9 matches for the Ukrainian national team.

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Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian national team player scored the first goal for the new club in Greece.