Zinchenko, Milevsky, Chygrynsky, Plastun and all-all-commentator of the channels Football1 / Football2 Kirill Krutorogov sums up the performance of Ukrainian footballers in Europe in the completed season 2017-2018 - especially for Football. ua.
About a hundred Ukrainian football players compete in major leagues of European countries.
And not only representatives of the top champions deserve attention. Let us recall those who disappeared from the field of view of the general public and note the triumphs. Go!.
England:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Alexander Zinchenko ManCity 14 12 0 0 1 Shakhtar's pupil returned from the lease to PSV with a firm intention to start playing in Manchester City. Although he did not become the leading player of this team, he got a practice game with Josep Guardiola, which means a lot. Yes, to some extent this contributed to the trauma of Mendi and Delf, but the hard work in training, dedication and boundless desire the Ukrainian won the trust of the legendary entertainer. Not embarrassed him and the unusual position of the left defender. Definitely, the completed season can be entered in the asset Zinchenko, who proved to skeptics that he is worthy of playing in the top championship, the gold medal of the English Premier League and the League Cup. It is possible that, having earned a good resume this season, the next step of the Ukrainian will be to move into the team more modestly to obtain stable gaming practice.
Azerbaijan:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team position Anton Kanibolotsky Garabagh 8 8 -6 - 1 Dmitry Bezotosny Gabala 33 33 -30 - 2 Vitaliy Vernidub Gabala 24 24 0 - 2 Kirill Petrov Neftchi 26 26 1 2 3 Sergey Litovchenko Kapaz 14 14 -18 - 8 Igor Korotetsky Kapaz 12 12 1 0 3 Anton Kanibolotsky can hardly be satisfied with the season and the chosen direction of continuing his career. In fact, he replaced the substitute of the reserve miners on the bench of reserve Karabakh. At the beginning of the season the Ukrainian played five matches in the championship of Azerbaijan and lost the competition to the Bosnian Shekhich, and after the winter came on the field and did it only once. But he will receive his gold medal. Bezotosny and Vernidub under the guidance of Roman Grigorchuk again finished second. Their Gabala lost to the champion in sixteen points. Goalkeeper was the main defender held this season more matches than in the previous two. In addition, on May 28 Gabala will play the final of the Azerbaijan Cup with Keshla, headed by Yuri Maximov. The Ukrainian coach took an outsider with eight points in the asset and scored with it 23 points in fourteen rounds, lifting from the bottom of the standings. Kirill Petrov in the status of the main player Neftchi won the "bronze". In the winter, Sergey Litovchenko left the Tbilisi Dynamo, and Igor Korotetsky - the Kramatorsky Avant-garde, to be together in Kapaz, where they became the main ones, but did not help the team avoid the departure. Litovchenko only missed more than one goal in three games. Karabakh is waiting for the 1st qualifying round of the Champions League, Gabala and Neftchi - the identical stage of the Europa League.
Belarus:.
Team Alexander Nojok Dynamo Minsk Ruslan Zubkov Neman Vitaliy Kvashuk Neman Oleg Karamushka Vitebsk Mikhail Kalugin Torpedo BelAZ Bogdan Myshenko Torpedo BelAZ Anton Postadalenko Belorussian BelAZ Dmitry Yusuov Torpedo BelAZ Sergey Shapoval Torpedo BelAZ Artem Milevsky Dinamo Brest Artem Radchenko Dnipro Mogilev Vladislav Gevelich Dnipro Mogilev Sergey Rudyka Dnieper Mogilev Alexander Tsybulnik Dnipro Mogilev Denis Shelikhov Ray Minsk Minsk Aleksey Chitchebun Luch Minsk Alexander Papush Isloch Anatoly Timofeev Smolevichy Alexander Kaplienko Smolevichi Vyachesche Slav Lukhtanov Smolevichy Sergey Rozhok Smolevichi Alexander Batishchev Gomel Artem Filimonov Gomel Dmitriy Tereschenko Gomel Alexey Kovtun Minsk Alexander Vasiliev Minsk The greatest number of Ukrainians abroad is in Belarus - 26 people, although in comparison with the first part of the season their number decreased by eight. From the Ukrainian beginners in the Higher League of the neighboring country, ten personalities. In particular, from Ukraine went: Vasiliev (replaced the Kiev Arsenal in Minsk), Kovtun (Poltava - Minsk), Luhtanov (Olympic-Smolevichi), Pozdalenko (Olympic-Torpedo BelAZ), Kaplienko (Chernomorets-Smolevichi), Chitter (Dynamo Kiev / Steel - Ray).
From other countries, Ukrainians Filimonov (Paphos, Cyprus-Gomel), Timofeev (Dynamo Batumi, Georgia-Smolevichi), Myshenko (Dynamo Tbilisi, Georgia-Torpedo BelAZ).
Transitions were made in Belarus: Shelikhov (Isloch - Ray), Horn (Gomel - Smolevichi), Tereshchenko (Dnieper Mogilyov - Gomel), Kvashuk (Vitebsk - Neman).
Trying to reanimate a career in the Mogilev Dnieper Artem Radchenko, who last until 2018 entered the field in April 2016.
The season in Belarus only recently started, so the statistical indicators of the players do not make sense so far. Note that the Minsk Dynamo Alexander Noyka will play in the qualification of the LEF, starting from the 1st round, and the "Dynamo" from Brest with Artem Milevsky and the newly-made head of the board Diego Maradona - will begin qualifying with the 2nd round. In March, Milevsky won the Belarusian Super Cup.
Bulgaria:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Igor Plastun Ludogorets 40 39 2 1 1 After Yevgeny Borovik left for Kazakhstan, and Dunav Alexei Larin dropped in the class, Igor Plastun was the only representative of Ukraine in the elite division of Bulgaria, but performs very well. For the second time in a row, Ludogorets became the champion of the country, although this time he was left without the Cup. But Igor played in the European League, where the riders got to the playoffs. The Bulgarian press notes our defender, considering him the leader of his team and one of the best in his position in the championship.
Croatia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Dmitri Lepa Osijek 37 33 2 5 4 In the winter Ivan Matyaz left Istra in 1961, returning to the Donetsk Olympics, while Dmitry Lepa continued his performance for Osijek. True, the season 2017-2018 turned out for the Ukrainian not as productive as the previous one, when he scored eight goals. Although he was the main one in all the tournaments, in particular, in the qualification of the Europa League, which Osijek almost overcame, having beaten Santa Coloma, Lucerne and even PSV, but stumbled on austria, losing 1: 2 at home and beating 1: 0 on their field. True, if a year ago to the bronze medals of the championship they did not have three points, then this - as many as ten. But the place in the qualification of the LE is again extracted by them.
Cyprus:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team position Maxim Imereckov Hermis 26 25 2 0 8 Yaroslav Martynyuk Hermis 34 31 4 4 8 In the winter, our representation in Cyprus decreased. Bogdan Kovalenko left for Latvia, Artem Filimonov - for Belarus, and Andrei Novak returned to his homeland. But the Ukrainian duo of Hermis Imeretkov-Martynyuk was on the leading roles. Moreover, the ex-Carpathian even became a captain of the team. True, he scored less than a year ago (9), and their team again hit the second six, but was far from relegation.
Estonia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Andrey Markovich Nomme Kalju 16 16 0 2 1 Yuri Tkachuk Levadia 17 17 2 5 2 Roman Debelko Levadia 18 15 16 4 2 Alexander Sukharov Paide 13 13 1 1 6 The season, like in Belarus, system of spring-autumn, but here managed to play significantly more matches. During the winter transfer window, the Carpathians were leased to the Estonian teams of three players at once, and each one broke into the base. Tkachuk and Debelko won the Super Bowl with Levadia and in the summer will play in the 1st round of qualification. Both regularly differ in effective actions, the forward goes to the list of the best scorers of the tournament. Markovic will also play in the qualification of LE. Sukharov replaced the departed Kalev on the middle Peida.
Georgia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Dmitri Ivanisenya Dynamo Tbilisi 12 11 1 0 Nikolay Kovtalyuk Dila 12 6 5 1 Evgeny Bohashvili Torpedo Kutaisi 7 3 0 0 Ilya Mikhalov Kolkheti 12 12 2 3 Andrey Poltavtsev Kolkheti 10 10 18 0 Yaroslav Kvasov Kolkheti 6 3 1 0 In winter, the Ukrainian delegation was reduced from eight to six people and the maximum was renewed. Litovchenko, Myshenko, Timofeev, Brovko, Derebchinsky and Pomazan left their teams, forward Kvasov and goalkeeper Poltavtsev replaced Dynamo Batumi and Guria respectively in Kolkheti, and Kovtalyuk from Tbilisi Dynamo moved to Dila, which became his third team in Georgia. Three more of our players moved to Georgia from Ukraine: Ivanisenya left Mariupol and joined Dynamo Tbilisi, Yevgeny Bohashvili (Rukh - Torpedo Kutaisi), Ilya Mikhalov (Olympic - Kolkheti). The season is in full swing, the statistics of the players are given, although it is changing rapidly, and the places of their teams indicate yet there is no sense. Torpedo Bohashvili will play in the 1st round of the Champions League qualification, and the capital Dynamo Ivaniseni starts in the international arena from the initial stage of the league.
Greece:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Dmitry Chygrynsky AEK 28 28 1 1 1 Evgeny Shakhov PAOK 33 19 8 3 2 Yevgeny Selin Asteras 14 10 0 0 5 Vitaliy Prinodeta Lamia 14 11 0 0 13 Evgeny Budnik Lamia 29 21 1 0 13 Dmitry Chigrinsky became the champion of Greece. His AEK beat the closest pursuer - PAOK - by six points and interrupted the seven-year hegemony of Olympiakos. Unfortunately, injuries did not allow our defender to play more than half of the season's matches. To break into the group stage of the Champions League Athens team failed, but in the LE she left the group, and then flew from Kiev Dynamo. Eugene Shahov became the winner of the Greek Cup for the second year in a row - PAOK again beat AEK in the finals, also Zhenya tried on the silver medal of the championship. These two teams will play in the qualification of the Champions League 2018-2019. Unfortunately, Shakhov was not consistently the main coach of Razan Lucescu, but in the Cup scored five goals. Yevgeny Selin went to start Asters at least once and will soon become a player of the Hungarian ITC. Vitali Prinodeta and Eugene Budnik moved from Platanias to Lamia in the winter, and if Budnik played more or less regularly, but did not notice a lot of effective action, then Prineddet got even less playing practice in the new place than on the previous one.
Denmark:.
Team Matches At Home Goals Assists Team Place Artem Dovbyk Midtjylland 15 3 3 0 1 The 20-year-old striker was in Scandinavia on the last day of the winter transfer window, so these months can easily be attributed to adaptation. In the starting lineup of Midtjylland he did not go out often, but head coach Yes Torup gradually integrates him into the team, obviously counting on the Ukrainian. It is interesting that the significant segment of the first stage of the Danish championship was not the first place, as well as eight rounds of the second stage. And only in the pre-final round broke out into the leaders and no longer gave the championship. So Artem Dovbyk for four months in Denmark became the champion of the country.
Macedonia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Evgeny Nowak Vardar 32 32 1 1 2 Defender Novak spent the third season in Macedonia, and if in the previous two he could boast of the championship medal, then this turned out to be much less successful.
Two years ago, they beat the pursuers - Shkendyu - 5 points, a year ago - the same opponent - 13 points, and this time lost Shkendii to a shocking 35 points, completely failing the final segment of the tournament. But Vardar with Novak knocked out in the qualification of the European League Fenerbahce and for the first time in history played in the group round of the LEF, where he had no chance in the quartet with Zenit, Real Sociedad and Rosenborg. The Ukrainian was the main defender of his team in all tournaments.
To be continued….