In Kharkov at the stadium "Metalist" our grandees will compete for the second most important trophy in Ukrainian football - the Cup of Ukraine. Your attention - the announcement of the upcoming event from the experts of the state licensed lottery lottery "Fortuna Live".
If a 3-week-old match practically did not solve anything from the standpoint of the tournament table (although it would still be nice for any player or fan to realize, they say: "We won them! We are tough!"), Now the motivation will go off scale. For Dynamo, this is an opportunity to win at least one trophy this season, for Shakhtar - to make a "golden double".
Regarding the "miners", they are now far from their "autumn version" and do not show the same speed and impact. Although this did not prevent them from playing against Kiev on April 21. Wards Fonseca then managed to find the keys to the opening of the defense of "Dynamo", which tried on "Shakhtar" his new scheme. Unexpectedness was the stretching inland Kovalenko, who acted on the position of the defensive midfielder. This brought its dividends, because the people of Kiev until the end of the game could not break the central axis of the "miners".
Sergey Rebrov's wards seem to have liked the new scheme. This is a scheme with three attackers ("tip" and two "tens"), two laterals, which are actively connected to attacks, two Rottweilers in the reference area with the inclinations of creative thinking, which are also required to provide a balance in the defense, and three centerbacks. Why did you like it? Because the game was "reset": there were more free zones, more movement without the ball + the team started to score more. Of course, you need more teamwork, the scheme still needs to be sharpened, especially in the game with strong rivals, such as "Shakhtar".
As for the forecast for the game, the coach will draw conclusions based on the experience that they received in the last full-time meeting. First and foremost, it concerns Sergei Rebrova, who must choose tactics and a scheme based on the opponent's possibilities and try to level his strengths.
Taking into account the fact that there are more individually strong players in Shakhtar, the team goes well from under pressure, quickly moves from defense to attack and has jet attacking players, it will be appropriate to assume that the "miners" have more chances. This is also attached to the statistics of face-to-face meetings of irreconcilable rivals: in 4 of the last 5 matches, the miners came out victorious and once the teams painted the world.
However, very much depends on the form in which the people of Kiev come to this confrontation.
Experts of the state licensed lottery "Fortuna Live" give the following forecasts for this match.