Dynamo midfielder Nikolai Shaparenko was seriously injured in the match against Vorskla.

In the match of the first round of the Ukrainian Premier League midfielder Dynamo Nikolai Shaparenko broke his nose when the defender Poltava Igor Perduta struck him with a kick in the face.

"For a whole month Nikolai will have to train and play in a special transparent protective mask. Of course, such injuries are not uncommon in football. Vorskla player, naturally, did not want to cause injury. Trying to take the ball with all his might, he simply missed, but at the same time he acted very dangerously and got Kolya in the face, "said Dynamo Chief Physician Leonid Mironov.

"This is a very serious injury, because there could be both a fragmentation and a fractured bridge of the bridge of the nose, which could lead to a serious operation, and then the player would drop out of the training process for a long period of time.

In Nicholas, the fissure of the right wing of the nose with an offset, but not requiring reposition, that is, surgical intervention. He is under the supervision of a doctor, he already had several consultations. Fortunately, while everything is fine, today he will hold the first training after injury. However, the next month he will train exclusively in a protective mask ".

His next match Dynamo will hold on August 3, when he will receive Shakhtar in the match ULE.