The crazy football weekend in Ukraine is over.
We are gradually approaching the last part of the season, when the teams facing them will no longer need to achieve positive results, which will not always be accompanied by bright football. From and in the context of the twenty-third round of the Ukrainian Premier League, it turned out that the results of the matches of the previous period significantly outweighed the real flow of action on the field.
Round 23. 10. 04. 2026 13:00 SK Poltava 0:4 Polissia 18:00 Rukh 1:1 Kolos 23 round. 11. 04. 2026 13:00 Karpaty Lviv 2:0 Oleksandriya 15:30 Metalist 1925 1:0 Dynamo Kiev 18:00 Veres 2:0 Obolon 23rd round. 12. 04. 2026 13:00 Kudrivka 1:2 Kryvbas 15:30 Zorya 1:0 Epitsentr 23 round. 13: 04. 2026 13:00 LNZ 2:2 Shakhtar Champion's intrigue life is still alive - and it's good For the central match of this Great Tour we saw already the last day at the schedule. It’s true, however, it’s not enough for the Donetsk Shakhtar, who, after duels against the Dutch AZ at the UEFA conference, managed to squeeze another guest group on the field of the Cherkasy LNZ, who rightly respected the potential champion.
And the conditions are truly better for Vitaly Ponomariov’s team to take the Arda Turan team “in a hot” year. What happened in this season's first battle at the Lviv Arena, since the " However, this past year, the repair between official games and logistics was really interesting for the “girniks” and did not allow a repeat of that fiasco.
The game was divided into two different halves. And not through the overwhelming anxiety that stretched out this sustria for three astronomical years, but through the gaming little LNZ, which assembled the coaching staff. The first half of the “Buzkovs” were active in pressing, exerted great pressure on the players of the “Girniki”, and put a special emphasis on standards. Ponomarov after the game will then reveal the main secret of his team’s preparation for this match - these days they actually prepared the very provisions that Shakhtar’s graves did not immediately fail, and continued to roll the balls under the hour of flank passes on the.
Ale, in a tactful plan, worked with Turan. The goals that were supposed to be scored by the Donetsk team before the break were “recorded” in Polissia, which was also confirmed by the Turkish coach after the match. So it turned out to be such a tactical duel, which allowed the coaches to do so without compromising their commitment.
Prote ce was more likely in the first half. In the other half of the match, LNZ believed that if it could save Shakhtar’s chances for the championship, then it doesn’t stink. A passive game for the Cherkasy team, which, I assume, has not allowed any deep failures in the power of defense, but its moments from the other top “Girniki” are so small that they are by no means approaching the positive characteristics of the trio in the center of defense of Ponomariov’s team. Just one counterattack after another half of the fight - the emphasis of the battles is not on potential victory.
Please, in front of the powerful fans, of whom more than 6 thousand have gathered in the stands, and in fact, it’s a great drive to talk about the fact that everyone is sharing the UAF with a view to safety - just a blatant reason to take the data from.
Since in the stands of the Central Stadium in Cherkasy the spectators continued to arrive after the end of the game hour, since the stewards simply did not stop them there to let them through, then believe in those who can, in case of insecurity,. If the LNZ has to pay a fine, then where will those pennies go - it's an open secret.
As for the sporting stage itself, the show seemed very high indeed, which meant a large number of patients. It is possible that two halves were played like the first, which would be the shortest match for the remaining few seasons in our football, but before the game a strategic perspective entered, and there is no time for adventurism, which can also be understood.
LNZ has concluded its plan for the game, and is completely satisfied with the draw, while Shakhtar has nothing special to worry about, since everything is in the hands of the Arda Turan team. If you don’t spend every single point until the end of the campaign, which is really difficult to believe, then the “buzkovs” will simply watch out for the proposals of a direct competitor at the first gathering. And that same one, it seems, is planning.
The second contender for the title of the central match of the tour completely failed from the point of view of the sub-sum result, the victory over Dynamo Kiev in Zhytomyr, the first in the history of this pair of teams, became fantastic for the Kharkiv Metalist 1925. In the strategic world of the fight for a place in the tournament table, this is a disaster for the “yellow-blues”, because it completely deprives them of any real chance of catching the “white-blues” already in the middle of the season,.
For Igor Kostyuk’s team, this defeat is fatal in the context of the fight for the third place in the tournament table, and now the rank champion is much closer to fifth place, and not to the European Cup zone, where,. But there, too, before the treasured trophy, two very difficult games will still be lost, one of which, perhaps, will be against the Kharkov Metalist 1925.
And in fact, we are now talking about some future prospects, especially because on the field on Saturday we encouraged the appearance of two teams with great ambitions, which they could not routinely confirm on the football field. The Kharkivs’ bet in the recent game was again focused on those so as not to miss as soon as possible, which was considered fatal, and any other result would still lead to talk about a great success. It's like nothing.
Dynamo wanted to lead the game with the “first number” in the context of the attack, but because of the evil of scoring chances and butting a stable boost to the attacking pace on the side of the team, Kostyuk, who was worried about doing without their greatest scorer Matviy Ponomarenok, we were not bothered. Going out and scoring in Dynamo is more banal for no one except the newly minted forward of the national team of Ukraine.
The share of the match was dominated by a series of kicks from the penalty kick under the hour standard, if the defending side actively appealed to throw a hand at the superniks, and the attacking side simply wanted to butt as if to bring the forehand to the blow at that hour. All this confusion ended in the bag with a goal from Denis Antyukh, and Dynamo, having beaten not a stranger to his gravets. And how do we come out of this situation, where in the calendar there are matches against Zorya, Kryvbas, Shakhtar, LNZ and Kolos, and there is also one cup battle, just unfathomably.
There were matches about which the next time no one in Silomitsa will ever know. Before the transfer of such, two matches can be brought in, which were either not intended to be a strain on sports competition, or those that had no. Who is still surprised by the number of patients who were reduced to the first category by the game involving SK Poltava?
Pavel Matviychenko’s team has actually already been relegated from the “elite” division, and between them and their fantasies, it could be that somehow the victory and the number of points gained from Oleksandriya right up to the very end of the season, so. The other “raspberries” are not trying to claim, and in the match against such a rival as Zhytomyr Polissya, there was not even a sign “three points for free” above the main entrance of the Zirka stadium in Kropyvnytskyi.
Beyond the pride, the mastery and the various football thoughts from the side of the nominal rulers, this game was similar to some kind of sparring with a punching bag for the Zhytomyr Poliss. And there is someone in the structure who knows about the outcome of such battles.
Another game, where the results were significantly larger, and the victoriousness of the battle on the football field on the side of both teams was observed in the capital, where they turned from the home match at the Dynamo stadium. Lobanovsky Lugansk Zori. She turned in order to give the Kamyanets-Podilsk Epicenter a lesson on set pieces, after which they started a free kick against the power in the other half and bring the game to a possible collapse against the superniks, who simply could not bring the right to the final spot in the power attacks..
Judgment's peace on the crust of the Carpathians, again Alexandria, now under the leadership of Volodymyr Sharan, is trying to find the route to the next step from the direct route from the " And for such minds the away match against the Lviv Carpathians was taken into account, which under the gun of Francisco Fernandez they hover in the skies amid a series of powerful victories - true self-destruction. There's nowhere to go.
So we just realized that the “Levits” in the home game will be able to dominate their opponents, and since in the first half everything didn’t look very promising for the “printers”, then the beginning of the other half will be hard to believe,. Another development for Denis Miroshnichenko a quarter of a year before the end of the main hour added intrigue.
It was already clear that the Carpathians simply respected the “curly” gravel on the field, and the stinks immediately screamed the rakhunok for helping the assist of the fresh Cheber on Kostenka. Alexandria didn’t sleep well, but at the end of the main hour she was left to finish. Young Andreychik was caught in the “Zabarny style” with the wrong choice of position in front of the high ball in the center of the field, which later led to Ogarkov’s foul against Karabin at the cost of forfeiting.
It seemed that there was a thread for the “polygraphs”. Otherwise, the team of referees allowed themselves to trivially buy Sharan’s team a well-deserved penalty on 90 minutes, when Ndiaga’s pass from the left flank flew right into Erika’s hand. And since before the head referee Mikoli Balakin in that episode, there is no need to actively raise claims - having watched the episode, having already controlled the fight in the penalty area, the position is rotten, I look at it rottenly, be it at this point, I didn’t manage to.
And this is the same Balakin, who, after Polissia and Dynamo, wanted to “quarter” after Denis Shurman, and here the most prestigious referee of our region turns to work, and he is specifically represented by Oleksandr Omelchenko. And Balakin would be the mastermind, well, after all, he’s the boss. Karpaty after that episode scored another goal, and Oleksandriya then went public until the UAF dealt with this situation. How many clubs and officials are still listed in Trivatime
The Russians are dying, but they won’t give up, the battle is in Rivne. The situation is such that the fight to not get lost in the zone of transitional matches for the main part of the championship will be on par with the cost of. There are enough teams that can fail at any moment before the critical zone.
Most thoughts agree on the fact that it will be extremely difficult for the Lviv Rukh in this context to correct the power situation, and the team of Ivan Fedik is on the brink of renewed discontent. But the home game of the “yellow-blacks” against Kovalivsky Kolos demonstrated that the situation is not as fatal as one might think at first glance.
In fact, this match deservedly deserves to go down to the crossroads of those who were important for viewing by outside fans due to the critical shortage of Swedish football and the small number of scoring chances. It turned out that the commanders were preparing us in this order until the final 10 weeks, when the showdown came.
Having scored Kolos for the first time, it seemed in the context of the other half that this was the final mark in giving Rukh points for the pouch of his confrontation. Ale Ivan Fedik reacted to Talles' goal approximately... no way. The coach of the rulers calmly watched over his charges, and from just one outside appearance, the progress of the one who would soon emerge was evident.
And effective, a banal attack on the last half of the main hour, Kiteli’s feed to Neves, a goal with the head of the Brazilian, which, due to the strength of the kick, was unlikely to give up much on the ball in front of Kolos’s defender. Everyone in Russia would be as proud as Fedik. Especially in the context of this future club.
The other two teams in this section competed in the same arena - the Rivne Avangard Stadium, with Veres and Obolon playing last Saturday, and Kudrivka and Kryvbas already earlier. And then we would like to know that football fields are not ready in Ukraine. And with such intensity of sports activities, the agronomists of the legendary Vembli were in the spring of the skin rock.!
And from what, but the field certainly didn’t care for all the teams to fight for the best results. And the struggle was quite heated, but with singing nuances, which became a continuing trend for other teams.
Obolon, for example, again did not finish the entire 90 minutes of the game hour at the same pace, so Oleksandr Antonenko’s team failed in the final game, since it was extremely unreasonable to finish it. There was a full-time duel for the current place in the tournament table, and now Veres can, as against the Kharkov Metalist 1925, who will gain points, will be removed from now. Without the blushing goal of Denis "
And even on Holy Day, the public in Rivne, who did not watch football on Saturday, could marvel at the equally great play of the crooked Krivbas, in the middle of whom important financial processes are involved, how to buy, and Kudrivki,.
Bo in the match against the team of Patrick van Leeuwen, who is our favorite, the newcomers of the UPL truly demonstrated that due to the obvious personnel of a trio of great Vikonovka mastery, this club could be financed much better. It was especially noticeable in the second half, when the “hawks” not only missed the first half of the goal, but also claimed to win, as if they missed no one.
Alas, Kryvbas, who again after breaking his own spell, scored a goal from one of the remaining attacks from a series of jumps from someone else’s free kick, while similar episodes in Kemkin’s free kick are not similar. This means that we would like to see a long-term replacement of Glushchenko in the warehouse of Baranov’s team, as well as the traditionally active scorer Storchous, who will help our powerful partners in one of the remaining episodes of the match.
Goal for the tour Eduard Sarapiy (Polissia) Giorgi Maisuradze (Polissia) Elias Telles (Kolos) Denis Ndukwe (Veres) Yeginaldo (Shakhtar) The greatest goal for the tour is Gleiker Mendoza (Kryvbas).
The longest coach of the tour is Mladen Bartulovich (Metalist 1925).
# 14 April 2026 I O 1 LNZ 23 51 2 Shakhtar 22 51 3 Polissia 23 46 4 Dynamo Kiev 23 41 5 Metalist 1925 22 38 6 Kryvbas 23 37 7 Kolos 23. 15: 04. 2026 16:00 Metalist 1925 0:0 Veres 24th round. 17. 04. 2026 15:30 Dynamo Kiev -: - Zorya 18:00 Obolon -: - SK Poltava 24th round. 18: 04. 2026 13:00 Kolos -: - LNZ 15:30 Metalist 1925 -: - Kudrivka 24th round. 19. 04. 2026 13:00 Kryvbas -: - Rukh 15:30 Epicenter -: - Karpaty Lviv 24th round. 20. 04. 2026 13:00 Oleksandriya -: - Veres 18:00 Shakhtar -: - Polissia.