The sixteenth round of the Ukrainian Premier League contained a lot of interesting tense confrontations, in which only two teams failed to score goals - Petrovsky Ingulets and, unexpectedly, Donetsk Shakhtar.
The reigning champions of Ukraine opposed on the NSC Olimpiyskiy field of Luhansk Zarya, forming with the principal opponents in the region the central pair of the football weekend in the vastness of our country. Viktor Skripnik's wards in the end managed to snatch a minimal victory (1: 0), but none of the “muzhiks” footballers managed to claim the title of the best player of the tour according to the statistical platform InStat.
Shakhtar - Zarya 0: 1 Goal video and match review The winner of this award should have looked elsewhere - for example, in Poltava, where the local Vorskla played an equally intriguing match against Alexandria. Poltava first appeared before their native audience in a home match in 2021, and managed to win a landslide victory over a direct competitor with a score of 3: 1.
Vorskla - Alexandria 3: 1 Video goals and match review Striker Vladislav Kulach played one of the main roles in the success of Yuri Maksimov's team.. The high level of performance allowed the Ukrainian to climb to the leading position in the final rating of the tour with an indicator of 357 points according to the special system InStat Index.
The second in terms of total characteristics was the participant of the confrontation in the capital of Ukraine between the Chernihiv Desna and Petrovsky Ingulets, which ended with a convincing victory for the team of Alexander Ryabokon (3: 0).
Desna - Ingulets 3: 0 Video goals and review of the match The central defender of Chernihiv citizens Andriy Gitchenko managed to score.
Returning to the central game of the tour, it is worth noting that the top three of the rating was closed by the defense player of the Luhansk Zarya, Joel Abu Hanna, who, together with his teammates, did not allow the Donetsk Shakhtar to sign at the goal of Nikola Vasil. 325 points on account of Skripnik's ward.
The top-5 also includes the flank defenders of Kiev Dynamo, who provided pressure on the opponents' defense during the game against PFC Lviv (4: 1).
PFC Lviv - Dynamo Kiev 1: 4 Video goals and match review At the same time, the Pole Tomasz Kendzera scored only three points more (323) than the Ukrainian Oleksandr Karavaev (320), despite the fact that he became the author of one of the goals scored.
The worst player, according to InStat, among the players who played a full match, was the midfielder of Petrovsky Ingulets Yevgeny Zaporozhets (161 points).