Epicenter – Shakhtar. Forecast and announcement for the Ukrainian Championship match

On Sunday, August 3, in Ternopil at the stadium. Roman Shukhevych will host the match of the first round of the Ukrainian Premier League in Football, which will play Kamenets-Podolsk “Epicenter” and Shakhtar Donetsk. The starting whistle of the referee of Klimo Zabrod from Kiev will sound at 3:30 pm Kyiv time.

Epicenter
On the rights of the first league champion, as a result of the last season, “Epicenter” from Kamianets-Podilsky rose to the unprecedented level for himself-to UPL. It will be a debut campaign at the elite for the club, the main sponsor of which is not difficult to guess, but only this fact only a little increases the position of the team, contrary to expectations. The rest of the team is provided by the unconditional coaching of Sergei Nagornyak.

And already the first rival of the Epicenter in UPL will be Shakhtar Donetsk, who for the head coach of the Kamenets-Podolsk team is not a stranger. Exactly a year of performances for the Miners in the professional career of the football player was in Nagornyak at the junction of millennia. Not the most striking period of his career, but the fact remains.

But in addition to the personal nature of the confrontation for the head coach of the “epicenter”, there is also an unprecedented difficulty in the “adult” exam. It is said that for beginners “elite” in the first season the main thing is to simply fix themselves and not try to take high places. But looking at the team from Kamianets-Podilsky, you will not say that they have something to be ashamed of their ambitions. A separate interesting figure is Andriy Boryachuk on the edge of the attack, which was rented from Kharkiv Metalist 1925 this summer, and who was previously written off from the accounts in Shakhtar, whose pupil is a 29-year-old forward.

However, this list of familiar many names in the Epicenter is not limited. The club this summer even appeared two Spanish legionnaires Joacint and Neil Koch, but since they have arrived in Ukraine not too long ago, to expect their appearance to play against such a serious rival in the starting composition. Most likely, Nagornyak will try to engage in his already known connections, and since the Epicenter has made enough not to lose the key players of the championship season of the first league, this should become his trump card before the UPL start. Something needs to be engaged.

Miner
Shakhtar Donetsk completed the UPL last campaign for unusually low third place. It is so unusual that generations of fans have already grown and mature who had never seen the Miners so low in the table in the season. It says a lot about. In particular, no one doubted that Marino Pushich would leave the team after such a season, even despite the conquered Cup of Ukraine.

As a result of this third place, Shakhtar received an unusually early start of the season – earlier than from the three other participants in the European Cup qualifications. But now, the Miners can seem quite a plus, because they do not need to roll up to the season in the domestic arena – they are already on the move thanks to the battles in the selection of the UEFA Europa League.

But the great nuance for Ukrainian clubs in the European Cups is that they are forced to wind kilometers and hours on the road, and they are clearly not all all over the way. So in the context of the future game-Shakhtar played in Krakow against the Turkish “Besiktash” the match in Krakow (2-0), after which he was forced to get to Ternopil, and as soon as the game against “Epicenter”, “Miners” will start planning a voyage. The schedule is crazy, and last year such a team of Pushich did not have.

But Turan is clearly aware of all these logistics problems, so he prepared a team not just in a mode that does not spare, but the pace of exhausting training at a short -term collection in Slovenia, which automatically expanded to the first games against Ilves in the European Cups. But now everyone is celebrating – Shakhtar in all four played meetings far outstripped the opponents by the level of form, and now it is interesting to come up with Turan in his first official match on Ukrainian land as a miners’ head coach. This is not the central game of the tour, apparently, but the intrigue is present.

History of meetings
The football paths of the Epicenter and Shakhtar have not been crossed before.

Themis
The main arbiter of the future game will be a 34-year-old Klim Zarod from Kiev, which has 17 matches in its account within the framework of the “elite” division. The side referees will be Valentin Kutsev and Vitaliy Skobl, and Denis Reznikov will work out the backup referee. The match will be present in the Var system, led by Vladimir Novokhatnnim, who will be assisted by Semen Schlonchak. The woman has the experience of holding matches with the participation of “Epicenter” – victory, draw and defeat, while he did not cross with Shakhtar.

Estimated warehouses
“Epicenter”: Bilyk – Klimets, Grigorashchuk, Moroz, Savchuk – Zaporozhets – Yanakov, Bezhenar, Demchenko, Tanchik – Boryachuk.

“Miner”: D. Raznik – Azarov, Gram, Bondar, Konoplya – Sudakov, Nazarina, Bondarenko – Neverton, Eginald, Swed.