Football. ua analyzes the performances of elite teams in the first part of the championship.

Steel 12th place - 12 points Waiting Even during the summer off-season it became clear that the team that lost most of the main performers is doomed to fight for survival. Young people, who had experience of playing at best at the level of U-21, could not immediately compete on equal terms with more experienced rivals, and it seemed that Yeghishe Melikyan would not be envied. Even after an enchanting start from two wins in two games, few doubted that the Kamenka club would sooner or later sink to the bottom of the standings ... Reality ... What, in fact, quite quickly happened. Yesterday's doubles, although they were, as in the old song, very ambitious, could not always boast of their competitiveness with opponents in the elite division. This trend lasted until the coaching castling, when Melikyan as a coach was replaced by the experienced and experienced in our realities, the Bulgarian Nikolai Kostov. Results have become, at least a little, but improve. Steel "pecked" glasses, as they say, by the grain, and managed to take away one point from the Kharkov match with Shakhtar (1: 1). However, despite the presence of a certain positive, it is unlikely that Kamenchan will receive something positive in the second part of the season. The prerequisites for qualitative enhancement are yet to be seen in the daytime with fire, and the place at the bottom of the table is likely to negatively affect the young players' "steelworkers".

Carpathians 11th place - 15 points Expectation On the eve of the season the Lvivans announced quite ambitious plans in the form of getting into the top three prize-winners, in addition, they threatened to put "bronze" in the Cup. The updated coaching staff and the dominance of foreigners initially instilled a certain optimism in the fans of the club, but quickly enough, he brutally crashed against the stones of reality. The Spaniards (with rare exceptions) turned out to be slightly better than their own pupils, in the Cup of Ukraine there was a talentless flight from the second Carpathian region, and the Carpathians themselves played in the most matches, to put it mildly, not in the best way.

Reality Alas, Latin experiments were not justified. It has become habitual in recent years coaching leapfrog. Doubtful and hitherto unknown Sergio Navarro was replaced by Sergei Zaitsev, and for the final meetings before the winter break the team was already preparing Oleg Boychishin. Several good fights were confidently absorbed in the humiliating fiasco from Veres (1: 6), and, which is the most insulting thing, it was in Lviv. Such a shame the Carpathians have not experienced for a long time. The intermediate penultimate place has become, to some extent, absolutely fair, but it is unlikely that the Galicians will reconcile with the fate of the outsider and in the spring will certainly rise up a couple of lines up. Just to figure out the inner kitchen ... Chernomorets 10th place - 17 points Expectation From the beginning of the championship at the helm of the "sailors" Alexander Babich was originally expected to improve the quality of the game of the team and, at least, the repetition of the result of last season. Then Odessa citizens managed to finish the season with the sixth, that, considering not the strongest composition, was considered a good achievement. It seems that Babich and built a competitive team, but the result was not there. It seemed that the case in some banal bad luck, but, as it turned out, not only and not so much in it ... Reality The defeat in the starting round from Dynamo (2: 1), no one seriously took into account the difference in the class with Kiev, after which the holes followed one another. Chernomorets long enough to close the standings, and the club management went on shock therapy in the form of a coach change. Belarusian intellectual Oleg Dulub immediately took up the organization of the game, rolled up his sleeves, and the team, as they say, ran. Draw with Shakhtar (0: 0) and victory over Dynamo (2:

1) will long remain in the memory of Odessa fans. Meanwhile, all good things come to pass, yes ends. Chernomorets alternated unsuccessful fights with mediocre, and for the winter left the third bottom. In spring, much, if not all, will depend on the selection policy. Already now it is known that the team left its main guard of the gate Alexander Gutor, there is information on the possible departure of other leaders, and Oleg Dulub also can leave the city near the Black Sea ....