The current championship of Ukraine with all its nuances boring certainly not called. In addition to the uncompromising struggle for gold medals and survival in the elite, it is very interesting to see the opposition of applicants for the status of the notorious third force. Vorskla and Zarya from all the host of clubs are much closer to the grandees, and there is nothing surprising that it is Poltava and Lugansk who occupy their current places. At the moment the disposition is extremely clear and understandable. Vorskla ahead of "men" Yuri Vernadub to one point for three rounds to finish, and finish the season with a full-time duel. It's more interesting than the denouement and it's hard to come up with!.
In the near future, both contenders for "bronze" will play away fights, but how different they will be! If the team of Vasily Sachko in Lviv will play with the so far the weakest club of the first six by Veres, then Zara will have a real test. The miner rushes to the second consecutive champion title, and to lose treasured glasses to afford can not. Moreover, after the Kharkov collision from Dynamo (0: 1), on the grounds of which the struggle for "gold" again exacerbated with renewed vigor. Of course, the chances of replenishing your baggage, at least with one credit, Vorskla is somewhat higher.
... As, however, and a week later. Departure to Mariupol though it seems a priori uneasy, but he is unlikely to compare with a duel with Zarya Dynamo. That's how it is not in time for the Lugansk people to fight against the grandees! It is possible that the tour before the end of the championship Poltava residents will provide themselves a place on the pedestal, but in football it can happen in any way, is not it? !!.
The most interesting scenario will turn out, if before the full-time meeting in Poltava the chances for the third line remain the same for both teams. The situation somewhat resembles a champion race, where Shakhtar depends much more than from Dynamo, only in the role of "miners" - the team Sachko. That's only the final match can be as decisive (which would very much like lovers of intrigue), and does not mean anything at all. And what? Both teams have already secured themselves a hit in the European Cups, that's just who will start them already from the group stage, and who - with qualifications, the question - edge.
The current tournament situation is such that Vorskla has an advantage only on points. But the difference between goals scored and missed is preferable to Zari: plus four against zero in Poltava. So, with an equal number of points, the third place will get Zara. That's just not the fact that for two matches, the performance of both teams will remain at the same level ....
It is interesting that the internecine battles in this season ended in a general parity. In the Poltava match of the first round, the teams painted a draw - 1: 1, after which they exchanged major victories in Zaporozhye. First success was celebrated by nominal owners (3: 0), and two weeks ago Vorskla with the same account produced a spectacular act of vendetta.
Meanwhile, in some aspects, Dawn, in spite of all its visible and invisible problems, still surpasses Poltava. This concerns, first of all, statistics in matches with grandees. If Vorskla managed to get only a zero home draw with Dinamo in the first round, then the Lugansk region with the same Kyivites played a formidable thriller (4: 4), and then in a scandalous duel they beat Shakhtar (2: 1). And I still do not take the memorable cup 3: 4 with the "miners" and the recent insulting defeat from the team of Alexander Khatskevich (3: 2) with the decisive goal of the Kendzers in compensated time!.
Vorskla, in turn, except for the last match with Dynamo, the leaders yielded almost uncomplainingly ... Why am I? Yes to the fact that the Lugansk club has the experience of extracting treasured points in matches with both giants, excluding the latest fights that culminated in devastating defeats. But only the team of Vernadub will now be incommensurably more difficult. First, the motivation of the people of Kiev and Donetsk is now at maximum speed, and, secondly, the game of Dawn is now far from the best of their designs. The visible indicator of this is not the best form of the leader Alexander Karavaev, for whom, as far as he can, Yuri and Artem Gromov.
Vorskla, too, is not all as smooth as it might seem from the side. 34 goals scored in 29 matches (in Zarya 43 in the same 29 matches) - the figure for the bronze medalist is clearly low. And you can not say that in Poltava there is absolutely no one to score.
But the paradox, Yuri Kolomoyets increasingly leaves the field without a goal, Vladislav Kulach had the status of a recognized scorer in the championship doubles, and Mikhail Sergiychuk special performance (except for memorable goals at the gates of Dynamo and Shakhtar) was never happy. On the other hand, Vorskla also missed the same 34 balls, while the Lugansk players - five more.
Summing up the above, a prosaic conclusion arises about a certain advantage of the Poltava club, but knowing the character of Zarya there is no doubt that the boys of Vernadub will fight to the last to repeat last year's result. We can only watch the most interesting ending!.