Roman Petrenko - about the massive replenishment of the elite division and the departure of Chernomorets.
It's been a long time since the Premier League received three new recruits. Especially in the twelve-team format. And now we have a directly released Kiev Arsenal and broke through the play-offs Poltava and Desna. Interestingly, all three clubs have not played in the elite.
First time - in the highest class!.
However, the status of absolute debutants of the top division is only Poltava with Desna. Arsenal, given its numerous reincarnation and renaming, may well be considered almost a full-fledged "returnee". Meanwhile, the current "Gunners" are hardly the assignee of the recently played in the Premier League Arsenal. The same that Shakhtar could beat on the way out, and Dynamo points to take away. What is there, the original team was under Vyacheslav Grozny, Alexander Zavarov and incomparable Leonid Kuchuk ... Poltava residents and northerners are characters from another opera. The first during the period of stay in the first league was struck not so much by outstanding results as by scandals and even by several threats to withdraw from the championship in winter breaks. And only in the past season Poltava created a small miracle. It was even possible to go directly to the elite, but after all, failure - in time came to grief-lost-was the leadership position Arsenal. The final second place meant a play-offs with Chernomorets, and, frankly speaking, few. Moreover, after a minimal defeat on the Black Sea coast. But in his native cozy Lokomotiv the team of Anatoly Bessmertny once again proved that the pots are not burned by the gods. The hat-trick of Maxim Degtyarev put a fat exclamation mark in a duel with the "sailors", as a result of which Poltava first received the Premier League derby.
The case with the Gutter - and at all the quintessence of football justice. Disappointment of the last season was obviously not due to the sports component, and Alexander Ryabokon had to start all over again. This very beginning just did not work out, and by the middle of autumn the idea that the Chernigovites would have to postpone for the season their ambitious plans. However Desna's spurt was timely and sure. The lagging behind the leaders was skillfully eliminated, while the ambitious Ingulets. Well and then there was an exit butt fighting draw with Zirka (1: 1), and especially the home triumph at the sold-out at the Chernigov OUSC. 4: 0 look more eloquent than any arguments.
It is interesting and revealing that the account was opened by Captain Denis Favorov, who was rehabilitated in this way for an own goal in Kropiwnicki. In addition, the double designed one foot in Zara Levan Arveladze, and another goal added also scored in the first meeting (but in someone else's goal), Alexander Volkov. And finally, the most important thing. PFL President Sergei Makarov has already managed to assure that Desna will get the right to play in the Premier League next season. According to the official, he contacted the head of the attestation commission, who gave a guarantee that the Chernigov club will receive a coveted certificate for participation in the elite division. Well, with the long-awaited holiday, Chernigov!.
Random pattern You can talk about anything, up to the point that the first-league recruits have obtained permits in the upper class with a significant share of randomness. But after all, as it was said in one old film, randomness is just an unknown regularity. Yes, initially favorites of joints, despite all the problems they had, saw Zirka and Chernomorets. However, the plenipotentiaries of the first echelon played as if they received edification: "Die, but do not disgrace the fleet". Not disgraced. Moreover, two demonstrative executions were carried out, and now the teams of the second-ranked division do not-no, and will have to look closely.
Zirka last season held unevenly, only by spring began to show a good football. And the results went, only the Carpathians were even more convincing and more powerful, in consequence of which they deservedly dropped the team of Roman Monarev in the risk zone. And all the same, Desna did not seem to be a potential stumbling block for the continuation of the prime ministerial odyssey. It seemed that the senior class would take its own rank and beat the well-trained Chernigov order. But it was not there! Desna declassed Zirka, sending a nice team to cleanse the first league ... But Poltava created a sensation. Yes, and what! "Municipal" in the second meeting defeated the torment all season Chernomorets. Honor and praise of Anatoly Bessmertny, who in time threw his wild joker Degtyarev into the battle. Maxim at the equator of the second half replaced the distinguished Alexander Kovpak, and within a minute (!) Opened an account. Then there was an overtime and two goals of the same Degtyarev, which marked the triumph of the silver medalist of the first league. Waiting for Poltava derby.
Dive Chernomorets frankly finish the game. The past season was for the "sailors" contradictory. Of course, we could not fail to remember the victory over Dynamo, and the heroic draw with Shakhtar, but then Oleg Dulub, an intellectual, moved in to the native Belarusian lands, and in the winter the wheel was received by Konstantin Frolov. Songs about Kostya sailor were again relevant, only in the spring Odessa youngsters frankly disappointed. Of course, blotches of good matches came across. Especially memorable victory 3: 1 over the Olympic with the double Alexander Gladky. Then it seemed that the crisis had passed and the patient was more likely to live than dead ... Even with all his difficulties, the Odessa club seemed to be one of the favorites for the final salvation. How could you believe in the possible flight, when the composition of qualified professionals of the same level Gladkoy, Cyril Kovaltsa, Nikita Tatarkov, Maxim Tretyakov and Nikolai Ishchenko. It turns out - and they are not a panacea.
The minute illusion turned into a series of further holes, and it was only in the last round that Chernomorets wrung out the home minimal Victoria over Zirka. Then there was the same victory over Poltava in the first butt battle, but the guest duel was for the "seamen" a fatal. Odessa club anchored in the first division, and will try to restore the city near the Black Sea place among the elite. It will be very difficult to do this, given the potential ambitious competitors. However, we will not rush events.
Author: Roman Petrenko.