Dynamo – Vorskla. Forecast and announcement for the match of the championship of Ukraine

On Thursday, April 4, a match of the fourth round of the Ukrainian Premier Football League will be held in Zhytomyr at the “Centralny” stadium, in which “Dynamo” from Kyiv and “Vorskla” from Poltava will play. The starting whistle of referee Vladimir Novohatny from Kyiv will sound at 18:00 Kyiv time.

Dynamo
According to the calendar, the fourth round of the UPL was supposed to end in the last week of summer, but at that time Dynamo Kyiv was solving its tasks in qualifying for the UEFA Champions League, so in the end it did not manage to make it to the main round, so no one was surprised that for one more match more with the mark “transferred” to Alexander Shovkovsky’s team became more. Here, rather, the question arises why it was so easy to agree to play the first round game against “Alexandria” in chronological order at the first opportunity, but we will consider this a secret of Polyshinel.

One way or another, “Dynamo” is gradually moving up the tournament ladder in the championship and is currently going without losing points, although it has the least number of matches played in the domestic arena among all “elite” teams. “Veres”, “Karpaty”, “LNZ” and “Zarya” remained behind, the goal difference is 8:2 for the Kyivans, but no one will say that all these victories came easily to Shovkovsky’s team.

While there was qualification for the Champions League, “Dynamo” played in the championship at a significantly reduced speed. But the game against Luhansk formally took place in a “free” atmosphere, and at the same time, the “white-blue” did not make any outstanding breakthrough. And now there will again be a schedule of three matches actually per week, even though they will all be held at the same stadium as part of the championship. On the weekend, the capital club will face Lviv “Rukh”, and here “Dynamo” should be afraid of losing points much more than in the upcoming game.

Vorskla
The point is that the “weakest” team of Poltava “Vorskla” will play against “Dynamo” since the beginning of the season. Sergey Dolgansky is not doing well with the personnel resource in the next campaign, and there are also two key defenders – Alexander Sklyar was removed in the game against the same “Rukh” on the weekend, and Alexander Pavlyuk was injured in the same match and they couldn’t even leave the field on their own – they flew out before a very important meeting.

The trouble is that these two players are in the center of the field and are responsible for everything in the “green and white” – the defense and attack depended exclusively on their movements, and who will now play these roles is decidedly unclear. At the same time, “Vorskla” has a clear view of its calendar and understands that on the weekend it will be another difficult match against “Kryvbass” on the road, of which there will be many more to come, therefore, most likely, it will give “Dynamo” a fight from its side at the end of October in home cup game.

If it will still be really home for “Vorskla”, because what we saw in the game against “Rukh” (0:0) cannot be called a football pitch in principle. Did the most experienced Sklyar accidentally trip on level ground, or was the reason for this the fact that the football players in principle could not keep the ball in their feet, and did Pavlyuk accidentally get injured on level ground? At the “Dynamo” stadium, it seems that there are no problems with the lawn now, but who will show meaningful football from the Poltava residents, who failed only once this season – in the game against “Shakhtar” in the first round (0:5), and then didn’t lose this?

History of meetings
The football paths of “Dynamo” and “Vorskly” previously crossed 61 times in the framework of the Premier League, Cup and Super Cup of Ukraine. There is an advantage in the number of victories on the part of the “white and blue” – 45 successful matches against 5 victories of “Vorskla”, while 11 meetings ended in a draw. The goal difference is 131:40. The biggest victory of “Dynamo” – 8:0 (2002), “Vorskly” – 2:0 (2016) and 3:1 (2010). The teams last played at the end of March this year, when goals by Vladyslav Vanat, Vladimir Brazhko, Mykola Shaparenko (double) and Andrey Yarmolenko against Mykola Kovataluk’s goal gave the Kyivans a 5:1 away victory.

Themis
The main arbiter of the upcoming game will be 40-year-old Vladimir Novokhatny from Kyiv, who has already played 50 matches in the “elite” division. Semen Shlonchak and Dmitry Zaporozhenko will be the side referees, and Klim Zabroda will serve as the reserve referee. The VAR system headed by Maksym Chertolyas, who will be assisted by Sergey Lysenchuk, will be present at the match. Novokhatne has experience of holding matches with “Dynamo” – 2 victories, while he met “Vorskla” 7 times – 3 victories, 3 draws and 1 defeat.

Orientation compositions
“Dynamo” Kyiv: Bushchan – Dubinchak, Dyachuk, Bilovar, Karavaev – Pykhalenok, Brazhko, Buyalsky – Kabaev, Guerrero, Voloshyn.

“Vorskla”: Isenko – Krupsky, Chernomorets, Khrypchuk, Guchek, Perduta – Myakushko, Kulakovsky, Chelyadyn, Kane – Iede.

Forecast for the confrontation
We believe that this match will not cause problems for the favorite.