Dynamo Kiev defeated Bulgarian CSKA 1948 in the last friendly match of the winter training camp in Turkey. The meeting in Belek ended with a score of 1:4. In the first half, Nikolai Shaparenko and Vladislav Vanat scored for the “white-blues”. At the start of the second half, the club from the city of Sofia reduced the gap through the efforts of Mario Ilievski. However, then Alexander Shovkovsky’s team scored twice more - goals scored by Nazar Voloshin and Vanat, who scored a double. Full video of the match CSKA 1948 - Dynamo.

For the “white-blues” this is the second victory of the day, because earlier the Kiev team defeated the Slovenian “Maribor” (2:0). Before this, Dynamo lost to the German Magdeburg (1:3) at a training camp in Turkey, won a victory over the Romanian FCSB (2:1) and pulled out a draw against the Polish Widzew (1:1). Already on Tuesday, January 21, Dynamo will play the first official match in 2025. The people of Kiev will compete with the Turkish Galatasaray as part of the seventh round of the main stage of the Europa League. After this, on January 30, Shovkovsky’s team will end their European Cup campaign with a match with the Latvian club RFS. These matches will no longer have tournament significance for the people of Kiev, because they prematurely lost their chances of reaching the Europa League playoffs after six defeats in a row.

Now Dynamo occupies the last, 36th place in the overall standings of the main round of the Europa League and remains the only participant in the tournament that has not yet scored a single point. Let us remind you that 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.