Photo FC Shakhtar Donetsk 01 March 2025, 11:01

Donetsk Shakhtar and Alexandria will complete the Saturday program of the nineteenth round of the Ukrainian Premier League.

Shakhtar – Alexandria Saturday, March 1, 18:00. Arena Lviv, Lviv. Arbiter – Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region) Light broadcast on UPL.TV The central match of the current tour in Ukrainian football. But is it just a tour? Here, the applicant for the title of the main game of the whole second part of the UPL season is planned. And we have not yet approached the classic. In fact, Dynamo Kyiv was the culprit that this game became much more important than it was before. Because the banal team of Alexander Shovkovsky does not often lose points that the pursuers can be to waste these rare moments.

That is why the potential draw, as a result of this meeting, is almost suicide for the chances of Alexandria, and even more so – Donetsk miner, to engage at least for something in the championship in this campaign. Miners will be especially set up for this game, because ten points of lag from the eternal favorite – it is a lot and beats on self -love. And here the defeat in the first circle, Marino Pushich, remembers well, and how he gave three points in Nice at the expense of 2-0 in his own benefit in the first half.

A bunch of circumstances actually coincide before this major event in our football. Both teams returned poorly to the national championship matches after the winter hibernation, which was divided into Shakhtar in general by two periods due to participation in the final matches of the UEFA Champions League. The Miners, as a result, barely overcome the Kiev Left Bank (1: 0), while the Polygraphs held a very weak match against the Lugansk Dawn (2: 1), in which they won only at the expense of the goal, which the arbitrators’ committee then questioned in the plan of legitimacy.

It may have only been a idle start from both teams, but no one will give them a time. Soon they will play in the Cup of Ukraine, but it will be April Terevenki, while things in the championship are interested in us right now. Five points are behind Alexandria, and this is also the case when the Miners may not like it, but what they played in the first part of the season, they have as a result. In particular, the defeat on Nice was one of the basics of this dramatic lag.

As for the shape of the teams in terms of results, Ruslan Rotana and the victory over the dawn were extremely important, as she allowed to close a series of three matches without winning the championship. Pushich’s players are also not marked, and the defeat of Polesie at the end of the year (0: 1) was not required for them. It remains to be hoped that Georgy Sudakov will still put on their feet before a key game, and there is something specific about Marlon’s condition, we may find out. Because without these players, even against the absolute debutants of the elite, it was very difficult with creativity.

Estimated teams Miner: D. Raznik – Vinisius, Bondar, Matvienko, Pedrenio Azevedo – Bondarenko, Kryskiv, Sudakov – Swede, Trarea, Kevin.

Alexandria: Yermakov – Kravchenko, Campush, Shabanov, Martyniuk – Mishnev, Kalyuzhny, Shepelev – Berezhra, Filippov, Tsar.

Interesting facts – Shakhtar can play in the championship 170 times: of them potentially 70 – in the status of the owner of the field.

– Alexandria can win 120 victory in UPL.

– Shakhtar does not lose nine matches in the championship in the championship: eight wins and one draw.

– Shakhtar scores nine matches at home – 30 goals.

– Alexandria misses in three UPL matches in a row – five heads.

– 70 Ruslana Rotan’s match as a club coach at all levels.

– 70 Ruslana Rotan’s match as a trainer at all levels.

– Artem Shulyansky (Alexandria) can spend 50 match in UPL.

– Georgy Sudakov can score 25 goals in UPL, Yegor Nazarina (both – Shakhtar) – tenth.

The form of teams

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