Football. ua presents the first match of the main stage of the Champions League, which will take place on the 18th of Wednesday and will start at 19:45.

In the first round of the group stage of the Champions League, Italian Bologna and Donetsk Shakhtar will play..

Bologna - Shakhtar Sereda, 18th spring, 19:45, Renato Dall'Ara Stadium, Bologna. Referee of the match - Rohit Saggi (Norway) Live broadcast on the MEGOGO media service The Ukrainian club is taking part in the main round of the new UEFA Champions League, which is already ready to make a small difference for our football these are important hours. Surprisingly, Donetsk Shakhtar is also the proud champion of Ukraine, and as such, having reached this stage of the competition, having lost the need to qualify.

And then, finally, the team of Marino Pusic recognized their opponents in this tournament and it is impossible to say that the “Girniki” took an easy way. The first opponent in the lineup will be Italian Bologna, after which Shakhtar will also compete with the Serie A team, but also in the nominally home city of Gelsenkirchen, and here will be Bergamasco Atalanta. Then there will be a trip to London, a visit to Arsenal, a home game against the Swiss Young Boys, a visit to the Dutch PSV, a visit to Bayern Munich and French Brest, and to complete this grand tour with a foreign match at Zignal-Iduna-Park against Borussia Ortmund.

Favbet company appreciates that Bologna is the favorite of the region. To help the team of Vincenzo Italiano give odds of 1. 92. Nothing was rated 3. 55, and Shakhtar’s success - 4. 40.

And everything begins for the Ukrainian club in Italy - historically not the closest region from the point of view of away matches for Shakhtar. It is possible, therefore, to place experts in the favorites of the very place club. What do we know about Bologna, besides the fact that in its native place of expansion there is a great university, the educational system of which has been trying to pin down the Ukrainian “vishis” for several decades now

Vlasna, “rossoblu” in the international arena are definitely not newcomers, but the club is from the Emilia-Romagna region with a hundred-fold (114-river, as it should be said) history. Well, just to be clear, this hasn’t happened in Bologna for a long time. Italian coach Thiago Motta, the current head coach of Juventus Turin, is the author of the team's sensational turnaround last season..

However, Motta is already a success, and they found a replacement in a person no less colorful than the colorful Frenchman, Vincenzo Italiano, the teams who have always recognized the style of the game. Spice and Fiorentina won't let you spoil. Utim, having deprived Bologna of not only Motta in the off-season. The club sold out too much for the transfers of Joshua Zirkze to Manchester United (42.5 million euros) and Riccardo Calafiori to Arsenal (45 million euros). Before speaking, against Calafiore, Shakhtar can also be played with a light drink, so that the Italians are far from infiltrating.

There were fewer transfers to leave the “Russian Federation” - Marko Arnautovic decided to completely become Inter's leader for (8 million euros), and from the decision of football players, Lewis Banks, Ebenezer Annan and Sidney van Gooydonk, crossed the pain Earners may or may not remember. Bologna also “sold out” in this context, including in view of the exit of the leaders last season.

There will be money, and then there will be a replacement - forwards Theis Dallinga from Toulouse and Nicolo Cambiagi from Atalanti, defenders Emil Golm from Spezia and Martin Erlich from Saussuolo, forward Remo Freuler from Nottingham, Nicolo Casale from Lazio, Juan Miranda from Betis,. With all these nicknames, you can’t tell that Bologna has little to spend there.

However, these are the results of the last campaign under Motti’s guns, and the results of the current one from Italy in general - and at the same time there are two great differences. The Russian side never achieved the same victories in four matches of Serie A, although the opponents were on a par with Udinese, Empoli and Como (two matches 1:1 and 2:2 in a row), and Napoli could not be named and effectively pushing your opponent,. Looking at the fifth row of the last season, it appears that Bologna still lowered the bar for results.

And here it’s time to begin to get involved in the context of the Donetsk Shakhtar, who has a couple of years of gaming practice more than his superniks, and a European Cup record - he has seen a lot more orders of magnitude more. Bologna played in European cups the last time, when the “Girniki” were planning their project for new history - in the 1999/2000 season, in the then UEFA Cup.

After the reformatting of the European Cup, Bologna, in principle, did not have any champions, while Shakhtar was a permanent participant, at least in the group stage, in the 2017/18 season and until i. But who can say that these “Girniks” are “not like that”, and they simply may not feel the need to stand on such a level.

The start of the season for the victorious Ukrainian champion does not give any kind of nutrition to the diet. Shakhtar has already given up two games in five UPL matches played, and another match against Kryvbas was “frozen” in a possible result for the team of Pusic Stan (1:0) by the terrorist country. But there was a real failure only in Oleksandriya (3:4), if the team managed to give up the 2:0 rakhunka for the sake of power.

The rest of the game of the “Girniks” was observed in Lvov, and their logistical shoulder has shortened to the minimum possible in the minds of none, but there is still nothing that can contribute to the result. There is no truth to be told here - Ukrainian clubs have to screw up, as they have to play on the greatest level. Pusic’s team will have more such prices this season.

Sho to the GRO Samoi on the areas of Lviv, then Shakhotar overgrowing the Carpathy in the Dozha to the Yaskravoy Style, I Kolya Kerivnitroy to say the club about " A synonym for this style is an adventure, and from the very same adventure in the Champions League will end in even worse results.

Tim is even more so if Shakhtar wins in Italy, and now has two victories in 16 matches - over Roma in the 2010/11 season and against Atalanta in the 2019/20 campaign. And besides the rivalry with Milan, Inter, Lazio, Juventus, Vicenza and Napoli Incoli, I don’t want to remember. From Bologna, the “Girniki” write a new side of their history in any case, and it is even important that it becomes possible.

Oriented warehouses Bologna: Skorupski - Posh, Beukema, Lucumi, Miranda - Ebischer, Freuler, Fabbian - Orsolini, Castro, Ndoje.

Shakhtar: Riznik - Vinisius, Bondar, Matvienko, Azarov - Bondarenko, Kriskiv, Sudakov - Zubkov, Sikan, Kevin.

Not playing: Kamb'yagi, El Azzuzi, Ferguson (colino) -....

The coaches seem to be Vincenzo Italiano, head coach of Bologna:.

“I hope that when the boys first feel this melody, this anthem of the Champions League, and take to the field, they will be able to find additional motivation to maximize everything that we can. We were well prepared before the game. To be aware of the fact that we are champions in Liza, the team must make the necessary move.

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Marino Pusic, head coach of Shakhtar:.

“I must honestly admit that I can consult with experts who estimate our chances are not very high, but I also know that everything is going wrong on the football field. Tomorrow there will be a new season, a new chance and a new opportunity to ensure that all future developments can be forgiving. Everything is left behind us."

Current form Ochni sustrichi Previously, the teams did not compete with each other.

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