Dynamo Kiev lost to the German Magdeburg in the first friendly match at the winter training camp in Turkey. The meeting ended with a score of 1:3. The only goal for the “white-blues” was scored by Vitaly Buyalsky in the 87th minute. Before this, Alexander Shovkovsky’s team conceded three times to their opponents. It should be noted that during the match the Kiev team failed to convert penalties twice.. In the 28th minute, Nikolai Shaparenko was unable to beat the goalkeeper, and in the 71st minute, Buyalsky also failed to do so. Full video of the match "
Let us note that Dynamo will play its next test match on Sunday, January 12, against the Romanian club FCSB. The people of Kiev went on a winter break as the leader of the Ukrainian Premier League (UPL). The White-Blues (43 points) are 5 points ahead of Oleksandriya and 10 points ahead of Shakhtar, which has a game in hand. In the first match of the “spring” part of the UPL, the Kiev team will host Karpaty. The base date of the matches of the 18th round of the elite division of the Ukrainian Championship is February 22. Before the resumption of the UPL, Dynamo are waiting for the final matches of the main round of the Europa League:
on January 21, the “white-blues” will play with the Turkish Galatasaray, and on January 30 they will face the Latvian Russian Federation. These matches will no longer have tournament significance for the people of Kiev, because they prematurely lost their chances of reaching the playoffs after six defeats in a row. After six rounds, the Kiev club is in last, 36th place in the overall standings of the main round of the Europa League. Dynamo remains the only participant in the tournament that has not yet scored a single point.