Knowing the result of the match in Kharkov, where Shakhtar defeated Dynamo, Alexandria clearly intended to reduce her gap from the vice-champion of Ukraine by three points, but the current Olympic does not closely resemble the team that was still recently sent straight to the First League, therefore, to implement the plan.
Who knows, maybe the Vicente Gomez team would not have resisted an opponent playing on equal terms in the Europa League with representatives of France and Belgium, but for Alexandria everything went wrong already in the very opening of the match.
In the 4th minute, trying to get ahead of Shahab who had run away on a date with him, the goalkeeper Alexandria Pankiv fouled outside the penalty area and, naturally, he saw a red card in front of him. Vladimir Sharan had to shoot Zaderak and release the reserve goalkeeper Bilyk instead. Of course, I had to change the game plan as well.
The hosts, inspired by the obtained numerical advantage, more often threatened the gates of a more venerable opponent, although Alexandria also had the opportunity to open an account.
Already in the compensated time, luck simply turned away from Olympus in an episode when, after a rebound from Grishko, the ball almost flew into an empty net. And if before the starting whistle, the Donetsk team could consider a draw an acceptable result, now they are clearly sure that they lost the victory.
To all the troubles of the guests was added the removal in the 84th minute of a nervous Sharan, so that Alexandria would play the next match without a head coach.
After the 14th round, Alexandria is 5th behind, 3 points behind Dynamo and Desna, and Olympic is 7th, behind only 2 points to Mariupol.
Olympic - Alexandria 0: 0 Olympic: Krynsky - Ksenz, Grishko, Zotko, Vantukh - Draman (Fabinho, 55) - E.
Pasich (Balashov, 64), Kravchuk, Polytylo, Teixeira - Shahab (Jeffrey, 85).
Alexandria: Pankiv - Luchkevich, Baboglo, Dubra, Miroshnichenko - Zaderaka (Bilyk, 7), Grechishkin, Dovgy, Tretyakov - Kovalets (Banada, 77) - Bezborodko (Pashaev, 54).
Warnings: Zotko, Grishko, Fabinho - Kovalets, Baboglo, Dovgy.
Removal: Pankiv, 4.
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