Veres – Alexandria. Forecast and announcement for the match of the championship of Ukraine

On Sunday, November 24, a match of the fourteenth round of the Ukrainian Premier Football League will be held in Rivne at the “Avangard” stadium, in which Rivne “Veres” and “Olexandria” will play. The starting whistle of referee Andriy Kovalenko from Poltava will sound at 15:30 Kyiv time.

Heather
In the first round of the current UPL season, we have one team that played all its matches away from home, Ingulets from Petrovac, as well as one that played most of its matches at home – Veres from Rivne. At first, this factor did not make itself felt, if you look exclusively at the results of Oleh Shandruk’s team – the “red and black” had a hard time entering the season and only occasionally managed to grab points on their field.

But after the September international break, “Veres” is simply unrecognizable. From the end of that month until now, the Rivne team has not lost in any of the tournaments and has significantly improved its position in the tournament table. Currently, Shandruk’s team is a full-fledged UPL middleman, and since no one ever wants to lose a good series, they are also quite dangerous for opponents with their personal interests at this stage of the season.

But everything comes to an end sooner or later, so in the second round “Veres” will learn what it is like to play most of the matches on other people’s fields, and problems may arise there with the results. Until the end of the current calendar year, the “red and black” will have to play three away matches, so the upcoming game at home for them is a farewell to their home fans and, obviously, the club will want to spend it on a major note. Now we will have to do without one of the best legionnaires of this UPL season – defender Iago Siqueira, who got over the warnings.

Alexandria
No one knows when the same moment will come, or if it will come at all, when Ruslan Rotany’s team suffers its first defeat of the season. “Polygraphs” will have plenty of reasons for the debut negative result in this campaign already at the beginning of December, where they played two games at once against the main competitor in the championship race, Dynamo Kyiv, at home and away, because the same match of the first round of the team and have not been conducted yet.

But we can already say with confidence that the first round of “Alexandria” managed to pass by a wide margin. Rotany’s team was distinguished by a very reliable defense, which neither “Dynamo”, “Polyssia”, nor “Shakhtar” can boast of, as well as a completely successful game in attack, because only our two universally recognized giants scored more than “polygraphs”. Needless to say, even central defender Miguel Kampush, who earlier in his career did not really stand out with goals in principle, started to score in Rotany, but here he immediately scored a hat-trick in the last round against “Karpat” (3:0).

We still have to deal with the phenomenon of “Alexandria” for a long time, but there is always a risk that we are shown a very good cover right now, and as a result, in the second round, under it, the content that we are counting on may turn out to be completely different. One way or another, there will be quite a lot of challenges before the “polygraphs” both before the end of this year and after the season resumes at the end of February. Especially since Rotany’s team is far from the most confident in playing matches after long breaks, and “Obolon” has already taken advantage of this (0:0), “Vorskla” fell a little short (0:1), and how will things go in “Veres” ?

Meeting history
The football paths of “Veres” and “Alexandria” previously crossed 14 times within the framework of the Premier League, the First League and the Cup of Ukraine. There is an advantage in the number of victories in favor of “Polygraphs” – 6 successful matches against 3 victories of equals and another 5 games ended in a draw. The goal difference is 15:21. The biggest victory of “Veres” – 3:1 (1992), “Alexandria” – 3:0 (1996). The teams last played in mid-May of this year, when goals by Vitaly Dakhnovsky and Yevgeny Morozko against Mykola Mykhaylenko’s goals from a penalty resulted in a draw at the “Avangard” stadium (2:2).

Themis
The main referee of the upcoming game will be 36-year-old Andriy Kovalenko from Poltava, who already has 48 matches in the “elite” division on his account. Oleksiy Mironov and Denys Serdyuk will be the side referees, and Dmytro Yevtukhov will serve as the reserve referee. The VAR system headed by Igor Paschal, assisted by Dmytro Kubryak, will be present at the match. Kovalenko has the experience of holding a match with the participation of “Veres” – 1 draw, 1 loss, while with “Alexandria” he crossed paths seven times – 2 wins, 3 draws, 2 losses.

Estimated compositions
“Heather”: Kozhuhar – Shevchenko, Vovchenko, Goncharenko, Protasevich – Klets, Kucherov – Dakhnovsky, Luan – Haiduchyk, Stepaniuk.

“Alexandria”: Ermakov – Martyniuk, Shabanov, Kampush, Kravchenko – Myshnyov, Kalyuzhny, Kovalets – Belyaev, Filippov, Bezerra.