Miner – Kudrivka. Forecast and announcement for the match of the championship of Ukraine

On Sunday, October 26, the match of the tenth round of the Ukrainian Premier Football League will be held in Lviv at the Arena Lviv stadium, in which Shakhtar Donetsk and Kudrivka will play. The starting whistle of referee Dmytro Panchyshyn from Kharkiv will sound at 18:00 Kyiv time.

Miner
Shakhtar Donetsk has again returned to the regime of two matches a week, and since we are also talking about the European Cups, there is no question of a normal training cycle. Arda Turan, in the best case, will be able to give his players the right to a light warm-up and a couple of hours of theoretical classes, although in the light of the latest results of the “miners”, the team clearly needs more.

In the middle of the week, Shakhtar played a nominally home match against the Polish Legia in Krakow in the UEFA Conference League, and the decision of the head coach of the Donetsk team to field an albeit not completely reserve, but rather experimental squad, ultimately led to another failure with beautiful goals from the opponents (1:2). It is clear that after the game, the Turkish specialist took all the blame on himself – he would not have done it, but Turan is forced to conduct such a ritual for the third game in a row.

The defeat by Cherkasy LNZ (1:4) is still quite fresh in the memory and will remain there for a very long time as a vivid example of how modern Shakhtar can fail in an individual game of the championship against the background of performances in European cups. But this failure did not end there – a draw against “Polyssia” followed (0:0), and there, too, the vaunted attacking group of “miners” did not offer anything concrete to the opponents, although they dominated the ball. And against the Poles, the “orange and black” also dominated, and against LNZ, but it does not bring results from the word “at all”. As a result, we came to a very interesting situation – next week, Shakhtar will have two matches against Dynamo Kyiv: in the Cup and the championship, and however it turned out, the extremely shaky positions of the head coach of the main rival did not suddenly turn into uncertainty about the future of Turan himself.

Curl
Shakhtar will hope to close this extremely unsuccessful streak for themselves in a game against one of the absolute newcomers of the current UPL draw. The Turan team has already played against “Epicenter” and it was an extremely difficult match for them in the first round (1:0), and now they will try to overcome the representatives of Chernihiv region in the person of “Kudrivka”. It is expected that it will not be an easy walk for the “miners” here either.

Vasyl Baranov’s team generally has all the problems inherent in newcomers to the “elite” division. The starting performances of the “blue and white” team were promising and bright – the team’s signature playing style, which focuses on one very important moment, was immediately noticeable. “Kudrivka” must score first in order to later go on the defensive and catch opponents on counterattacks.

In this style, they managed to beat “Alexandria” (3:1), SC “Poltava” (3:1) and “Epicenter” (2:1), as well as take points from “Karpat” (2:2) and “Metalista 1925” (1:1). It is unlikely that any of these teams will be able to compete with Shakhtar in attacking power, but the general context is clear. It will be important for “Miners” to score first and repeat the success of all the teams that beat the Baranov team before, and the guests of “Arena Lviv” will have to prevent this in every way. The main question of the game day – will it succeed? And then there are already three teams claiming places above Shakhtar. And maybe more.

Meeting history
The football paths of “Shakhtar” and “Kudrivka” have not crossed before.

Themis
The main referee of the upcoming game will be 32-year-old Roman Blavatskyi from Lviv, who has 41 matches in the “elite” division to his credit. Vitaliy Skoblya and Vasyl Ostapchuk will be the side referees, and Maksym Firsov will serve as the reserve referee. The VAR system headed by Dmytro Kubryak and Mykhailo Ovchar will be present at the match. Blavatskyi has the experience of holding matches with the participation of Shakhtar – 2 victories, while with “Kudrivka” he also crossed paths 2 times – 2 defeats.

Estimated compositions
“Miner”: Riznyk – Pedrinho Azevedo, Matvienko, Arroyo, Vinicius – Pedrinho da Silva, Nazarina, Ocheretko – Neverton, Elias, Lucas.

“Kudrivka”: Yashkov – Melnychuk, Mamrosenko, Serdyuk, Macheliuk – Dumanyuk, Matveev – Kozak, Storchous, Svityukha – Legostaev.