In the opening match of the Saturday part of the Ukrainian Premier League at the Dynamo stadium named after. Lobanovsky, Donetsk Olympic hosted Mariupol.
The match began with double-edged attacks, in which the home team was the first to really threaten the goal - Shahab in the 24th minute with a powerful blow to the crossbar completed a one-on-one exit with Galchuk. Olympic clearly pressed the opponents, so the Donetsk team's goal was not long in coming - Shahab's next long-range shot was parried by the goalkeeper, but he did it exactly in the direction of Benito.
Igor Klimovsky's wards did not have time to rejoice at the success achieved, as they immediately received a penalty kick in their own net for a foul by Kichak against Gorbunov. Sikan converted the punishment with a blow to the lower left corner. And already in the next attack of Daniel himself, Babenko knocked down in someone else's penalty area, and from the next "
The aggressive first half gave way to a relatively calm opening segment of the second half, and already in the 73rd minute, it seemed, Tankovsky finally buried the opponents' chances of success, a jerk almost from the center line.
However, it was too early to write off Olympic. In the 79th minute, Polito finished off the rebound of the ball with a long-range shot by Benito into the empty net, and then the striker, who replaced Shahab, scored a goal - in the fourth compensated minute he closed the discount to the second attack rate from Benito. Mariupol could have reached the third position, but lost points out of the blue.
Olympic - Mariupol 3: 3.
Goals:
Benito, 37, Politylo, 79, Kargbo, 90 + 4 - Sikan, 44, Mishnev, 45 + 2, Tankovsky, 73.
Olympic: Kichak - Ksenz (Tsymbalyuk, 78), Drama, Snurnitsyn, Pasich - Babenko - Benito, Zavisky (Romanovsky, 84), Politylo, Teixeira (Chogadze, 70) - Shahab (Kargbo, 70).
Mariupol: Galchuk - Kiryukhantsev (Sagutkin, 90 + 1), Chobotenko, Bykov, Stasyuk - Chekh - Mishnev, Bondarenko (Biblik, 90 + 1), Tankovsky, Gorbunov - Sikan (Kulakov, 46).
Warnings: Benito, Zaviysky, Drama, Babenko - Mishnev.