Rise of Alexandria. Hardly anyone expected such a rise from the team of Vladimir Sharan.. The past championship Alexandria frankly failed, and rumors about the resignation of the coach diverged regularly. But who now remembers those misunderstandings? !. Sharan knocked out a decent command mechanism, hardened to a point in the summer off-season, and the results quickly went up the hill. For the entire first round, the Alexandrians lost only three times, and two of these failures occurred in matches with recognized giants.. The team acted confidently, lively and rather efficiently.. According to this indicator, Sharan’s wards are second, with 16 goals ahead of Dinamo (Kiev’s players have two less strikes) and only 30 players from Shakhtar.

Sharan has harmony in almost all positions.. An incomparable and unfading Pankiv works in the gates, in defense not by days, but Bondarenko grows by the clock, and on the flank he usually lights the industrious Tsurikov. Oh yeah, let's not forget the shipped six goals against the opponents of opornika Banada and the uninterruptedly useful Gritsuk. In the attack, while all the less fun, but, as you can see, Alexandria copes and so. Sharan modestly calls the goal of getting into the top six, but who will be against the record-breaking rise on a pedestal? !.

Dynamo swings At first, Aleksandr Khatskevich gradually seemed to start working out of long-term construction in the form of creating a renewed team.. The start of the season is, to some extent, confirmed. The win of the Super Cup of Ukraine and almost immediately the next minimum Victoria over the Miner revived hopes of the Kiev fans for a successful new season. This went on until the sixth round, in which the Dynamo players did not count the first points. The stumbling block was the traditionally thorny Chernomorets (1: 1). Further worse. The most ineffectual home defeat of the Carpathians (0: 2) multiplied by a draw with Zorya (1: 1), and yet, at that time, the people of Kiev had not played a missed meeting with the stubborn Mariupol. The total series without victories (taking into account the League of Europe) already consisted of six matches ... Prospects for mid-September seemed awful. The backlog of the Pitmen grew by leaps and bounds (Shakhtar endured everyone), and there were no prerequisites for correcting the situation even in the telescope. Clouds over Khatskevich thickened, but timely victories over Desna, Mariupol, Arsenal and Olympik, in fact, returned the most titled club of the country to the champion race. But the problems in European competition have not gone away. They didn’t come to the Champions League, without a compromise losing to Ajax, and in the Europa League they started from two faceless draws. Well, fans, as before, require a change of mentor. But this, as they say, is another story ... The phenomenon of Ravanelli The situation with the Arsenal initially seemed rather vague, especially when you consider the invitation to the coaching bridge by Fabrizio Ravanelli. In the past, the colorful forward, as an Italian coach, had a minimum of experience at the highest level, so not many people believed in the wonderful rise of the Kiev club ... In fact, that was exactly. Arsenal stamped defeat after defeat, and Ravanelli assured the public of rapid progress and improved results.. And they all were not and were not. At the beginning of autumn, it became obvious that the outrageous mentor’s mission was accomplished, and the Italian left Ukraine with tears in his eyes.. Interestingly, some Arsenal footballers were crying almost in the open and so loved by the coach.. The players did not have to grieve for a long time, and for the final match of the first round they were brought by a no less colorful specialist.. Vyacheslav Grozny actually returned to the club for the fourth time, and just the same - he immediately won a victory in Poltava (0: 2). And Ravanelli, suddenly “rattling” in our championship, again plunged in an unknown direction..

Bombardier Banada Who would have thought that in the dispute of the championship goleadrov the closest pursuer of the experienced Junior Moraes from Shakhtar, along with team-mate Marlos, would become ... the defensive midfielder Alexandria? !. Yes, 26-year-old Yevgeny Banada in ten fights was marked with six (!) Effective blows, actually doing the work for his unsuccessful forwards-teammates. Almost in every fight, Banada had a chance to excel, and almost all of his connections to attacks and standards immediately attracted everyone’s attention.. The spectators in the stands and on the TV screens have already managed to get used to the fact that Yevgeny, if he doesn’t score himself, then at least, at the very least, the goal is threatened. Midfielder scored for all tastes, and now has the right to count on a debut call to the main team of the country. Deserved!.

Sanjar's Care Without a perennial mentor, the Donetsk club was second in status, perhaps no one. But before the final round of the first round, Roman Sanjar agreed with the leadership of his native club not a fictitious divorce.. In his own words, the 39-year-old specialist needs a reboot and a new career challenge. Sanjar intends to take a pause in coaching, and devote this time to improving their own skills.

The replacement of the coach was found rather quickly, and also, I must say, caused an ambiguous reaction from the football community.. Sanzhara was replaced by Vyacheslav Shevchuk, who recently completed active speeches. The ex-defender of the miner and the national team of Ukraine will now try to inculcate Olympic attacking football, which has already managed to promise in one of the first interviews on the new post. However, in the premiere of the Olympic battle with Dynamo Shevchuk, it was still the least conceded. In any case, looking at Olympic without Sanjar is at least unusual..