Alexandria – Obolon. Prognosis and announcement for the Ukrainian Championship match

On Tuesday, March 11, a match of the twenty-first round of the Ukrainian Premier League in Football, which will play Alexandria and Obolon Kiev, will take place at Alexandria at the Nick Stadium. The starter whistle of referee Igor Pashala from Kherson will sound at 1:00 pm Kyiv time.

Alexandria
When Ruslan Rotan’s team lost to Shakhtar Donetsk in a lasting round at Arena Lviv (0: 3), it seemed that for the Polygraphs the position over the Miners in the standings would only be a matter of time. But since Marino Pushich’s team still cannot stand firmly on his feet, Alexandria got a second chance to break away to the pursuers for a safer distance, which was successfully used by the last weekend, beat the Kovalivsky Kolos (1: 0).

This opens many opportunities for the Rotan team in the near future. Games against Dynamo and Shakhtar are left behind in the championship in both circles, so the Polygraphs should feel much more comfortable than before. Of course, there is still a meeting against the Miners in the Cup of Ukraine, but there is no point in exacerbating attention on the eve of the international pause.

It is much more important now for Alexandria to get a qualitatively after an international pause, because even in the match against the insanely weak in terms of the attack of “Kolos” one scored ball is absolutely frivolous. There is more that there is also a very controversial victory over Zorya (2: 1), the success against which even the Arbiter Committee was questioned. There are still six points to Dynamo – not so many points, but not at all, while Shakhtar is four points, without taking into account the transmitted match of the Miners against Kryvbas, but if the Pushic team will continue at the same time, then these four will be much more.

Obolon
In Kiev Obolon, meanwhile, in the midst of their individual races. And again – for survival in the “elite” division. The club is spinning, as can, but with a limited resource, even in our football, far away will not work. So it turns out that not the last level of the game, Sergei Shishchenko’s team now balances on the border between the dangerous and less dangerous zones. Where will the scales of the scales with “brewers” bend?

The second part of the season for Obolon began at the same time – from the victory over Vorskla (1: 0), which then could not overcome Dynamo (1: 1), which also testifies to something. Then there was a draw against Polissya (0-0) – also quite well, because this season cannot even boast of Shakhtar in the current season. But the defeat from the Dawn (1: 2) – here without questions, playing in another’s field of Kiev did not succeed.

This time, the Shishchenko team for the first time in 2025 will leave the borders of the capital, which is also a remarkable test for it. At the beginning of the season, the guests were constantly slipped from the “brewers”, but at the end of the year the situation in this regard was significantly improved, and the defeat from the Dawn became only the first five guest matches for Obolon. Almost half of the total points this season – and this should also be taken into account. However, this time the people of Kiev will not be helped by Captain Ruslan Chernenko in the center of the field and, in fact, the head coach in the technical zone due to disciplinary penalties. The task is complicated at times.

History of meetings
Alexandria and Obolon football paths have previously crossed 3 times within the Premier League. There is an advantage over the number of victories by Polygraphs – 1 successful game, and 2 more matches ended in a draw. The difference of heads is 5: 2. Alexandria’s greatest victory is 3-0 (2024). The teams were last played in September last year, when we did not see the heads at the Obolon-Arena stadium (0-0).

Themis
The main arbiter of the future game will be 42-year-old Igor Pashal from Kherson, who already has 96 matches in his account within the framework of the “elite” division. The side referees will be Stanislav Marulin and Denis Serdyuk, and Yevgeny Tsybulko will work out the reserve referee. The match will be present in the Var system headed by Alexander Kalenov and Michael Rayda. Pashal has experience in holding matches with the participation of Alexandria – 12 victories, two draws and 3 defeats, while with Obolon he crossed 9 times – 3 victories, 1 draw and 5 defeat.

Estimated warehouses
Alexandria: Yermakov – Martyniuk, Shabanov, Campush, Skorko – Shepelev, Kalyuzhny, Mishnev – Tsar, Filippov, Bezerra.

Obolon: Fedorovsky – Sukhanov, Karas, Prymak, Stasyuk – Vitenchuk – Bliznichenko, Frost, Pear, Ilyin – Ustimenko.