Konoplyanka, Yarmolenko, Seleznev, Kostevich and all-all-commentator of the channels Football1 / Football2 Kirill Krutorogov continues to sum 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.
Part 1.
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 triumphers. Go!.
Germany:.
Team Matches At Home Goals Assists Team Place Evgenie Konoplyanka Schalke 30 20 6 4 2 Andrey Yarmolenko Borussia D 25 19 6 1 4 The second season for Eugene Konoplyanki in Germany was more successful than the previous one. Domenico Tedesco trusted the Ukrainian more than his predecessor, and Zhenya, of course, tried to justify the trust of the coach. Ruhr derby in the first round (4: 4), he spent enchanting, having issued two assistants. Three times he became the best player of the championship matches and became a vice-champion, and Schalke got a ticket to the group stage of the Champions League. Of course, I would like to see the number of his replacements (15 in the Bundesliga) transformed into more appearances at the start. Andrei Yarmolenko made his debut in the top championship and seemed to quickly integrate into the new team, but probably the Dortmund public had expectations higher from the beginner who cost the club 25 million euros. This is normal for such a level, when the time for the buildup is not given, but they require everything at once. However, it is worth noting that Borussia feverishly feared this season - there is a disastrous performance in the group of Champions League, and a change of coach during the season, and not the best work of Steeger, because of what he will not continue cooperation with the "bumblebees". In addition, the injury received in late January, Yarmolenko knocked out of the game for two months, almost until the end of the season. There are no real reasons for criticism of the Ukrainian, instead there is a reason to expect a much more powerful next season from ex-captain Dynamo - the team's restructuring as a whole, even more time in the new place, resumption of the form after injury, serious motivation to prove that it is worthy to play in the top -Championships. The main thing is to avoid new injuries, to reach mutual understanding with the new mentor and to win a place in the first team.
Spain:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Maxim Koval Deportivo 2 2 -3 - 18 Six months rent in Deportivo turned out unsuccessful for Maxim Koval. He came during the season to a foreign country, not to a vacant place, to a team trying to escape from departure. Time to swing and adapt was not perfect. Either immediately in a whirlpool with a head, or a bench of spare. Yes, and both matches in which the Ukrainian went on the field, he did not finish that for the position of the goalkeeper, of course, shocking. In the debut match, Koval admitted screaming mistakes, which resulted in a missed goal and a red card. And at the end of the season, when the chances of saving the team did not remain, for some reason was replaced in the 83rd minute. According to the portal Whoscored Koval - the worst player of the championship in Spain. Deportivo flew out, Seedorf left the post of coach, buy out Maxim's contract or renew his lease Galicians did not want.
Belgium:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Valery Luchkevich Standard 15 4 0 1 2 Roman Yaremchuk Gent 34 25 9 3 4 Ruslan Malinovsky Genk 42 30 7 4 5 Evgeny Makarenko Kortrijk 27 25 0 2 2 in the 2nd six Roman Bezus Saint-Truiden 29 21 6 8 2 in the 2nd Six The majority of "our Belgians" spent an excellent season, showing themselves well. Unfortunately, there is one exception - Valery Luchkevich has not yet won a place in the basis of the Standard and often remained on the bench. But his team won the "silver" of the championship, as well as the Cup of the country and will play in the qualification of the Champions League. Roman Yaremchuk quickly adapted to the new realities in the debut season abroad, regularly scored (became the second scorer of Ghent), won the respect of the coaching staff and fans, deserved a challenge to the national team of Ukraine. Ruslan Malinovsky was a "machine", having played in the majority of matches of his team, accomplished many effective actions. Both summers await the qualification of the Europa League.
Evgeni Makarenko left Dynamo free agent in a very modest Kortrijk, and showed himself in such a way that he was bought by Anderlecht for 1.2 million. Euro. Brussels got a direct ticket to the LE and in the next season will definitely compete for the championship. Roman Bezus during the regular draw of the championship of Belgium many times appeared from the bench, and when the start of the playoffs - stably came out in the base and has decent statistics, and also entered the top 5 best assistants of the Belgian championship.
Hungary:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Alexander Nagy Debrecen 31 31 -40 - 4 Sandor Weida Balmazuyvaros 37 37 8 9 10 Evgeny Pavlov Vashash 27 8 4 1 11 Sergey Shestakov Dioshgyer 12 10 0 0 12 The most experienced goalkeeper Alexander Nagy - the main goalkeeper in Debrecen. On the "zero" defended 6 matches. For the tour until the end of the season, his Debrecen goes to fourth place, in the zone of the Europa League, behind the Uipesth, which is located on the bronze pedestal, by two points and ahead of the nearest pursuer only thanks to the best goal difference. In the final round (June 2) his team will have to go to Ujpest. Ex-forward Volyn Evgeni Pavlov scored two goals in the qualification of the LE, but his team did not get there, and in the championship he sat down on the bench. His Vashash, and also Dioshgyer Sergey Shestakov go in the relegation zone, but still have chances to escape. Shestakov, who crossed the winter from Olympique, if he got into the application, most often - in the starting lineup, but in a special way did not show himself as part of the outsider. The season for Shandor Vaida turned out to be great - he played a lot, scored and assisted. Thanks to two victories, Balmazuyvaros got out of the relegation zone, but still runs the risk of falling into the abyss and dropping in the class. Note that Nadia and Vaida, judging by the information of Transfermarkt, in addition to the Ukrainian passport there is also a Hungarian.
Kazakhstan:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Dmitry Nepogodov Tobol 10 10 -7 - 3 Vasily Kobin Tobol 8 4 0 0 3 Anton Shinder Tobol 6 5 3 0 3 Evgeny Borovik Black Sea / Akzhayik 10 10 -16 - 5 Sergey Basov Akzhayik 13 13 1 0 5 Alexander Volovik Akzhayik 1 0 0 0 5 Andrey Tkachuk Akzhayik 13 13 0 0 5 Igor Khudobyak Akzhayik 12 6 1 0 5 Yuri Putrash Akzhayyk 3 3 0 0 5 Aderinsola Eseola Akzhayik 13 11 8 1 5 Kirill Kovalchuk Ordabasy 11 11 0 0 4 Evgeny Tkachuk Shakhtar Karaganda 11 11 0 0 7 Alexander Migunov Shakhtar Karaganda 11 11 1 0 7 Vladimir Arzhanov Kaisar 9 5 0 1 8 Rizvan Abilitarov Atyrau 12 12 0 0 11 Championship Kazakh Thane passes for spring-autumn System. Goalkeeper Dmitry Nepogodov for the second season in a row holds in Tobol, where he is the main. Last season, which ended in November, he was recognized as the best goalkeeper of the Premier League. In the current - he defended half of the played matches to "zero". In winter, he was joined by two other famous Ukrainians: Kobin and Shinder. Vasily moved from Veresa, Anton - formally from Amkar, but for the whole previous season he did not have a match in the Russian championship. In the new place, both did not immediately become key figures, but in Tobol they rely on their experience.
Serious Ukrainian gang gathered in Akzhayik. In the winter the team was headed by Vladimir Mazhar, who invited seven compatriots: Evgeny Borovik changed Bulgaria (Black Sea) to Kazakhstan, Sergey Basov moved from Alexandria, Alexander Volovik - from Aktobe, Andrei Tkachuk - from Vorskla, Igor Khudobyak - from Carpathians, Eseola - from Kiev Arsenal, and Yuri Putrash was a free agent. But, obviously, not everyone feels comfortable there. Basov and Tkachuk - the stable players of the base, Esela played in most matches and heads the list of the scorers of the championship, Khudobyak in the half came out at the base, Volovik spent only 15 minutes from the beginning of the season, and Putras played a little, he was injured, and as a result in late May he broke the contract with the club. While coach Mazhar left the post two weeks ago. Kirill Kovalchuk has already played for Ordabasy for the second season. His team won bronze last season, but did not pass the UEFA licensing because of the violation of the financial fair play and flies past the qualification of the European League. Thanks to this in the first playoff round there will play Tobol. Yevgeny Tkachuk and Alexander Migunov arrived in winter to conquer Kazakhstan from Ukraine (from Steel and Olympic respectively,), both play the basis of Shakhtar from Karaganda.
Latvia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Alexei Antonov Ventspils 9 7 2 1 2 Vladimir Baenko Riga 8 8 1 0 5 Valery Fedorchuk Riga 5 3 1 0 5 Bogdan Kovalenko Riga 4 2 0 0 5 Sergey Zaginailov Riga 5 4 2 0 5 Here too the drawing of the championship is held on the system of spring-autumn. In the winter Alexey Antonov left the sinking Chernomorets Odessa and was in Ventspils. Former defender of the Miner and Zirki Vladimir Baenko performed in Uzbekistan in 2017, and during the transfer window he became a player of an ambitious project Riga, where he also gathered other Ukrainians - Valery Fedorchuk (Veres last team), Bogdan Kovalenko (last team Paphos from Cyprus) and Sergey Zaginaylov (the last team of Zarya Balti). Soon they will play in the 1st round of the qualification of the European League.
Moldova:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Bogdan Boychuk Dynamo Auto 6 6 1 1 4 Valeriy Kutsenko Speranta 4 4 1 0 6 Oleg Ermak Dawn 7 5 0 0 8 Metalist's pupil Bogdan Boychuk left the Russian Petrochemist in July of last year and nine months was without a team, until he signed a contract with Dynamo-Auto, returning to Moldova, where he had previously played for Zarju.
Poland:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Vladimir Kostevich Lech 37 37 0 4 3 Alexey Khoblenko Lech 11 1 2 0 3 Alexandre Sheveliukhin Gornik 4 2 0 0 4 Denis Balanyuk Wisla 8 2 0 0 6 Andrey Bogdanov Arch 14 13 1 0 12 Alexey Dityatiev Krakowia 26 22 1 2 9 Artem Putivtsev Brook-Bet 36 36 1 1 15 Pavel Ksenz Sandecia 11 7 0 2 16 Vladimir Kostevich is certainly the main defender of Lech and one of the best players of the Polish championship in his position. Alexei Khoblenko, who joined Kostevich in winter on loan from Chernomorets, was gradually allowed to play. In the first team he almost did not appear, but regularly came on as a substitute and scored two goals. There is a possibility that Poznan will offer the Ukrainian a full-fledged contract. Their team finished the draw of the regular Polish championship in the first place, the first three rounds in the top six also was the leader, but unsuccessfully operated at the finish and eventually slipped to third place. Now Lech is waiting for the 1st round of qualification. Ex-Dnipro Denis Balanyuk is unlikely to enter his debut season in Poland - he had a minimum of gaming practice. Andrei Bogdanov immediately burst into the base of the Arka, played in the Polish Cup final, where his team lost to Legia.
Defenders Alexei Dityatiev and Artem Putivtsev were stably the main players of their teams. Putivtsev played close to the maximum of the tours throughout the season, but if Krakow finished first in the bottom six, then Thermalik went down in the class. And Sandecia Pavel Xenza.
Russia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team position Taras Mikhalik Lokomotiv 13 11 1 0 1 Denis Kulakov Ural 31 31 0 4 12 Philip Budkovsky Kortrijk / Anji 12/7 5/4 1/0 0 14 Oleg Danchenko Anji 30 28 3 5 14 Igor Tchaikovsky Anzhi 1 1 0 0 14 Dmitry Grishko SKA Khabarovsk 18 17 0 0 16 Vitaliy Fedotov SKA Khabarovsk 21 11 3 0 16 Taras Mikhalik for the first time in five years of performances in Russia became the champion of this country. At his 34 years of regular play he was not allowed injuries. Nevertheless, the experience of the Ukrainian was important for the "railroad". Denis Kulakov at a consistently high level held the entire season, having played most of the matches in the first team. Dmitry Khomchenovsky in the winter signed a contract with the Urals, but did not spend a minute in their T-shirt and became a free agent. Oleg Danchenko showed himself well.
He played regularly, noted a lot of effective actions, won the interest of more serious clubs of the local Premier League, but, most likely, will return to Shakhtar. Philip Budkovsky did not prove himself in the Belgian Kortrijk, nor during the second arrival in Anji. Did not work out in this team and Igor Tchaikovsky. Makhachkala residents took the 14th place, but lost to the Yenisei in transitional matches for the right to remain in the elite division and dropped in the class. Dmitry Grishko played much more in the first part of the season. And he and Vitaly Fedotov SKA flew from the last place.
Serbia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team's place Yuri Vakulko Partizan 2 1 0 0 2 Half a year in Belgrade left the midfielder of the youth team of Ukraine Yuri Vakulko for adaptation. He debuted, coming on as a substitute, in March. The only complete match was played in May. Partisan by seventeen points behind the champion - Crvena Zvezda and will play in the 1st round qualification LE.
Slovakia:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Ilya Cherednichenko Spartak Trnava 6 1 2 1 1 Artem Sukhotsky Slovan 0 0 0 0 2 Andrey Lyashenko DAK 0 0 0 0 3 Ilya Tereschenko Podbrezova 12 8 1 1 9 Ilya Cherednichenko played only 26 minutes in four games championship of Slovakia, but his team became the champion and it is waiting for the 1st round of the Champions League qualification. Artem Sukhotsky replaced Lugansk Zarya with Slovan from Bratislava in January, but in half a year only once in the last round he got into the team's application, but he did not spend a minute on the field. Slovan became the owner of the Cup, but in this tournament the Ukrainian also did not participate in the tournament. Absolutely had no game practice and 19-year-old Andrey Lyashenko, who moved to DAK from Volyn in January. His team won bronze. A 20-year-old pupil of Kiev Dynamo Ilya Tereshchenko played on loan for Podbrezov from Slovan and returned to Bratislava.
Turkey:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team location Sergey Fishing Sivasspor 22 18 1 4 7 Artem Kravets Kayserispor 14 7 4 0 9 Alexander Kucher Kayserispor 27 23 0 1 9 Yevgeny Seleznev Kabaksykspor / Akhisar 37 28 12 1 11 Alexander Rybka Karabukski 20 20 -43 - 18 Andrey Bliznichenko Karabukspor 24 16 0 1 18 Anton Kravchenko Karabukpurs 16 16 0 0 18 Sergey Rybalka and Alexander Kucher played a little more than half the matches of the season. Artem Kravets often remained in reserve. They were with Kucher Kayserispor claimed for a ticket to the Europa League, but failed the finish and was in the middle of the standings. Yevgeny Seleznev played little in the beginning of the season as part of the outsider Karabukspor, but in the winter he moved to Akhisar, where he immediately became the main striker, scored nine goals and helped the team to win the Cup of Turkey, quickly deserving the respect of the fans.
Anton Kravchenko, during the winter break, moved to Karabukspor from Olympique, broke into the base, but did not help the new team to escape from relegation. Alexander Rybka at the end of the season is not so often went out in the start, missed seven goals from Fenerbahce, and Andrei Bliznichenko, although he played relatively regularly, but did little effective action.
Czech Republic:.
Team Matches At the base Goals Assists Team place Eduard Sobol Slavia 28 24 1 2 2 Taras Kacharaba Slovan 8 7 0 0 6 Alexander Azatsky Banik 14 12 1 0 12 During the winter break Ruslan Rotan became a player of the Kiev Dynamo, and Alexander Azatsky moved to the Czech Republic and Taras Kacharaba.
For Eduard Sobol, the season started well, the press wrote about the interest to him from the Bundesliga teams, and in Slavia valued the Ukrainian football player, but in the end he told in an interview that the team had an unpleasant situation for him, do not expect or explain the reasons for it. Although there he received a good experience in the group stage of the Europa League and won the Czech Republic Cup. Taras Kacharaba also went on loan, but played a little. Alexander Azatsky had slightly more gaming practice, but immediately became the main failed.