The matchless match was given by the leaders of UPL Shakhtar and Dynamo!

Shakhtar Donetsk hosted Dynamo Kiev in the 14th round of the Ukrainian Premier League at the Metalist stadium in Kharkov. 1-0 in favor of the first. But there are nuances.

Dynamo Kyiv approached the match against Shakhtar with one personnel problem (if you do not take into account the injuries that have been known for a long time), but it is very significant. Due to disqualification, the team captain missed the game - Sergei Sidorchuk. Thus, the main pre-match intrigue was around who will take a position in the supporting zone. As a result, the choice unexpectedly fell on Mykola Shaparenko, next to whom came Vladimir Shepelev, whose disqualification, after a controversial removal in the Ukrainian Cup match, did not extend to more than one game already missed.

In the attack, “Dynamo” also unexpectedly appeared Gerson Rodriguez, who had already been out of stock and spilling out his desire to play on coaches. The besedin was allowed to rest, and Fran Sol, replacing Artem, apparently did not use the opportunities presented to him.

Despite rumors of Taras Stepanenko’s injury, he still entered the field, but Marlos was given rest, he was replaced by the hero of the match in Zagreb - Tete. Another change affected the Pitmen's field center: instead of the disqualified Alan Patrick, Marcos Antonio came out.

For the rest, everything is unchanged: Dynamo has the usual scheme with a double right flank - Kendzera-Karavaev, the Pitmen - on the right in the defense of the Dodo, displacing the Bolbat from the base.

The match started cautiously on the part of both teams. Shakhtar had some advantage, but Kiev tried to counter-attack dangerously. The principle arbiter of the meeting Nikolai Balakin attracted attention. And if the first yellow card, which was presented to Popov, who stopped Tyson’s passage, was on the case, then the warning to Shabanov was, as they say, sucked out of his finger - the 30th Dynamo number fought on Teta in the fight, trying to knock the ball.

Despite Shakhtar’s territorial superiority, it was the Dynamo team who had to open an account when, after the split transfer of Shaparenko, Gerson Rodriguez took the strike position. However, in the fight with the defender, Gerson struck past the far corner. You do not score. The Pitmen’s return attack ended in a corner, after which Sergey Krivtsov ahead of Shabanov in a high jump and sent the ball to the top corner of Bushan’s goal.

After a missed goal, the Kiev team started up and transferred the game to half of Shakhtar’s field. But there was not enough reception and sharp sequels. But the Pitmen’s retaliatory attacks were dangerous precisely because they were carried out at a speed that Dynamo players didn’t always have time to maintain.. It was hard Mikolenko against Tete and Dodo. Likewise, the middle of the field was lost, where Sidorchuk was clearly not enough.

And yet, the second acute moment in the first half was also created precisely by Kiev. After the jewelry pass of Tsygankov to Rodriguez, he slipped Matvienko and punched, it seemed, for sure, but the ball flew above the target. The teams did not create more especially dangerous moments. And the time was remembered, among other things, by the injury of Moraes, which he received in the fight against Popov, who owned the ball. It turned out that Popov stepped on a slipping Moraes’s foot, which was taken away by an ambulance.

The second half Kiev began more actively. Earned the left flank, where Verbich got down to business. However, the plans were broken by the injury Mikolenko received in the first half. Buyalsky’s exit led to a restructuring in the structure of the Dynamo game - Karavaev went to the left flank.

Kievans tried to build attacks through the flanks, but could not go forward with great forces, as the Pitmen immediately counterattacked. I remember the attacks of Tyson and Tete, which Dynamo covered with great difficulty.

Entering the field of Besedin and Garmash was designed to add strength and athleticism to the attack. It seems to have been added, if not for the incident that occurred 15 minutes before the end, when something offensive to Tyson allegedly sounded from the Dynamo fan sector. The match was interrupted for three minutes due to racist shouts.

Artyom ZHOLKOVSKY.