As part of the first round of the Ukrainian Premier League-2025/26, Kharkiv Metalist 1925 will play a home match against Kiev Obolon.

Metalist 1925 – Obolon Sunday, August 3, 18:00. Central Stadium, Zhytomyr. The main referee is Oleg Kohut (Ternopil). Light broadcast on upl.tv Last season, “yellow-blue” was spent on speeches in the first league, although even the campaign before that, their further existence was in question. However, at the same time, a cryptocurrency boom, connected with the coming to the club of new wealthy owners, began in the metallist of 1925, and immediately began to work. It was not saved from the UPL then, but the club was cleaned by the second division, and eventually returned with great ambitions.

However, he returned not directly, but because of the playoffs against the Kiev left bank, as a result of which he remained without the usual Lelek stadium at home matches due to fan behavior and a further conflict between clubs. So now the 1925 Metalist will play, for example, in Zhytomyr, as it will happen in the context of the first round. Or, maybe it will eventually get to the home stadium.

However, Kharkiv’s logistics troubles can hardly be surprised, since the team has already played outside their hometown for the first year of a full -scale invasion. But this does not affect work in the club transfer market. Mlada Bartulovich was invited to lead the project after Patrick Van Leuven was released in the course of last season, and after a successful playoff Oleksandr Chizhov, they were left only part of the coaching staff under the new head coach.

But signing under the new campaign in 1925 really impress – Ivan Kalyuzhny, Alexander Martyniuk and Artem Shabanov was taken from Alexandria, Ilya Krupsky formally passed from Vorskla in winter, and then Eugene Pavlyuk joined him. Igor Kohut returned from rent in Chernomorets, and Alexei Sidorov and Raymond Ovus – from Kolos and Horna, respectively. Denis Antyukh came from the dawn. These transfers can be envied by approximately all UPL clubs except the usual pair of flagships.

Kiev Obolon with its disabilities against this background is lost at all. In addition, the club managed to lose the author of her rescue from the struggle for the survival of the sample last season Sergiy Shishchenko – one of the few UPL coaches, who manages to keep his own style, despite the club he heads. “Brewery” really played a new level in football then, but as it will now be – the question to open.

Oleksandr Antonenko worked at Shishchenko’s coaching staff, so the progress of the team is also part of his acquisition as well. But in an independent swim on an “elite” level, this steering was not yet, so no one knows what to expect from him in the head coach’s role.

At the same time, the management also made sure that in the new season the teams still had a signing, but the link of the attack was not possible. And with her were perhaps the biggest problems of the last football year. Ivan Nesterenko and Artem Kulakovsky was pulled from Vorskla, who drowned, and from Veres, Eugene Shevchenko was taken away from Veres, and Defender Dmitry Semenov came from his left shore, while Eugene Pasich was rented from Metalist 1925, but hardly provided him in this agreement. Maxim Czech replenished the support area as a transfer from the Carpathians.

What to expect from the last couple of the first round of the new UPL season? I would like anything, not only “zero” football, because the precedents of the last weekend were already – did not like it. But the Kharkiv people will have to prove their own ambitions, while the people of Kiev will seek to demonstrate that changing the trainer will not affect their ability to fight with any rival.

According to bookmakers, the favorites of confrontation are the wards of Mladen Bartulovich. Thus, the victory of Metalist 1925 can be put with a factor of 1.82, while the potential success of Obolon is estimated at 4.65. The likelihood of a draw is represented by a factor of 3.60.

Estimated warehouses Metalist 1925: Varakuta – Krupsky, Shabanov, Pavlyuk, Martyniuk – Kalyuzhny, Litvinenko – Kalitvintsev, Antyukh, Moura – MBA.

Obolon: Fedorovsky – Grisio, Dubko, Prymak, Shevchenko – Bliznichenko, Czech, Chernenko, Nesterenko – Sukhanov, Ustimenko.

Interesting facts Obolon can play a draw 20 times in UPL.

At the same time, the people of Kiev did not play seven matches in a row: 3 wins, 4 defeats.

Metalist 1925 misses in UPL 23 matches in a row – 52 goals.

Mladen Bartulovich debuts at the head of the Third UPL club: Ingulets and Zorya were previously.

This match will also be 30 for Bartulovich in the championship.

Oleksandr Antonenko (Obolon) will hold a debut match headed by the UPL Club.

Metalist 1925 may not miss in the 10th home -made UPL match.

Denis Ustimenko (Obolon) can score 10 goals in the championship.

Eye meetings The teams met nine times. Two victories of Kharkiv residents against the five people in the people of Kyivans, while two more games ended in a draw. The greatest victory of each team is Metalist 1925 (2-0), Obolon (3-0). The difference of heads is 6:10.

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