The team of Yuri Vernidub could not keep the winning score, conceding from Yuri Kolomoyets on the 89th minute (1: 1).
The Butovskiy Stadium in Poltava hosted, as some dubbed it, the central duel of the tenth round of the ULP. Local Vorskla was to resist the Lugansk Zara. Poltava residents took the third line of the table and glanced behind their back, where they actively scored Veres and Mariupol points. And Zarya, in turn, is still trying to get into the struggle of the strongest teams of our championship.
From the first minutes, rivals did not hurry to force the development of events, looking closely at each other. The teams alternately owned the initiative. Sachko's wards were more likely to control the ball, but Luhansk's attacks looked even sharper. At the end of thirty minutes of the game, Alexander Karavaev burst into someone else's penalty area and already in the fall pushed the ball past Tkachenko, but the goalkeeper grouped and parried the blow.
It was close to the break and it seemed that none of the teams could open an account, but at one point the ball bounced to Opanasenko on the outskirts of the penalty area, and Eugene decided to hit - the ball caught the enemy and fell over the scruff of Tkachenko. Poltava in the first half of the game did not have time to respond, so the referee whistle sent the team to rest with a minimum advantage of the Dawn.
The beginning of the second half of the game was completely under the dictation of Poltava. Wards Yuri Vernadub were not against this scenario, giving the opponent to control the ball, but to let Vorskla players on the last line no one was going to. It was very difficult for the hosts to find a breach in the defensive constructions of the enemy.
Only in the middle of the half Andrei Lunin had to work. Chesnakov punched his head after filing with a penalty kick, and the young goalkeeper turned the ball to the corner. Dawn rarely made sorties to someone else's half of the field, and if she did, then more with the goal of "killing" time. I remember a free-kick from Silas, when Tkachenko not without a problem parried a powerful shot of the Brazilian.
The same Silas threatened Tkachenko's possessions a little later. The Brazilian got the ball in the penalty area and took it to the far corner of the gate - there was not enough accuracy. Vasily Sachko tried to strengthen the game of his team through substitutions, but Kulach disappeared into the field, and Odaryuku did not have enough time. But Kolomoets, who played from the first minutes, justified the expectations of the coach. Forward struck the ball into the goal, best of all orientated in a strange penalty. Svatok, it is worth saying, could not knock the ball in an elementary episode.
More teams could not create anything worthwhile, so the final whistle was fixed by a draw. In the next round, Poltava players will play against Chernomorets, and Wernidoub's wards will "accept" Dynamo.
However, Lugansk still waiting for the meeting in the European League with Athletic.
Vorskla - Zarya 1: 1 Goals: Kolomoets, 89 - Opanasenko, 44 ??Vorskla: Tkachenko - Perduta, Chizhov, Dallku, Matviyenko - Sklyar (Kulach, 76), Chesnakov - Kadimyan (Odaryuk, 86), Sharpar, Child - Kolomoets Zarya: Lunin - Opanasenko, Svatok, Gordienko (Silas, 71), Sukhotsky - Kharatin, Grechishkin, Babenko - Karavaev, Lunin, Gromov (Mayboroda, 83) Warnings: Chizhov, Dallku, Kulach - Babenko.