On Sunday, December 14, after the performances of Ukrainian clubs in European cups (“Fiorentina” – “Dynamo” – 2:1, “Hamrun Spartans” – “Shakhtar” – 0:2), the last round of the UPL of the year, the 16th, finished with matches in Kropyvnytskyi, Kyiv and Lviv.
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By the way, a witness to Shakhtar's defeat of Epicenter in Lviv was Arda Turan's new signing, 22-year-old Nigerian attacking midfielder Prosper Oba, who scored 7 goals and provided 3 assists for LNZ in the UPL in the first part of the season. According to unofficial information, Donetsk paid 4.4 million euros for the player.
Ukrainian Championship. 16th round
December 14 (Sunday)
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Shakhtar (Donetsk) – Epicenter (Kamyanetsy-Podilskyi) – 5:0 (Pedrinho, 9, from penalty, Neverton, 20, Elias, 56, Meirelles, 87, 89). Junior teams – 6:0.
Shakhtar: Fesiun, Pedro Enrique, Matvienko, Bondar, Vinicius, Kryskiv (Nazarina, 87), Pedriño (Eguinaldo, 64), Ocheretko, Neverton (Ferreira, 87), Marlon Gomez (Izaki, 73), Elias (Meirellis, 73).
Dynamo (Kyiv) – Veres (Rivne) – 3:0 (Ponomarenko, 9, Tiare, 20, Yarmolenko, 90+1). Junior teams – 2:2.
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Dynamo: Nescheret, Karavaev (Zakharchenko, 67), Mykhavko, Tiare, Vivcharenko, Mykhailenko, Yatsyk (Shaparenko, 74), Rubchinsky (Pikhalyonok, 67), Voloshyn, Ogundana (Redushko, 74), Ponomarenko (Yarmolenko, 81).
Poltava — Rukh (Lviv) — 1:2 (Misyura, 49 — Fal, 31, 71). Junior teams — 0:4.
December 13 (Saturday)
“Polissya” (Zhytomyr) – “Karpaty” (Lviv) – 3:2 (Hayduchyk, 15, Hutsulyak, 27, Bragaru, 52 – Mykhailychenko, 58, own goal, Krasnopir, 88). Junior teams – 2:0.
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LNZ (Cherkasy) — Zorya (Luhansk) — 2:0 (Yashari, 18, Muravsky, 57). Junior squads — 1:2.
“Kryvbas” (Kryvyi Rih) – “Kolos” (Kovalyvka) – 1:1 (Tverdokhlib, 10, from the penalty spot – Krasnichy, 56). Telles (Kolos) was sent off in the 85th minute. Junior teams – 1:1.
December 12 (Friday)
Obolon (Kyiv) — Metalist 1925 (Kharkiv) — 1:3 (Ustymenko, 34 — Churko, 55, Itodo, 60, Mba, 90+3). Youth squads — 0:2.
“Olexandria” – “Kudrivka” – 1:1 (Zhota, 1 – Storchous, 62, from penalty). Youth squads – 3:1.
Teams' position:
1. LNZ — 35 points (16 matches);
2. Shakhtar — 35 (16);
3. “Polissya” — 30 (16);
4. “Dynamo” — 26 (16);
5. Kryvbas — 26 (16);
6. “Kolos” — 25 (16);
7. “Metalist 1925” — 24 (15);
8. “Zorya” — 20 (16);
9. “Karpaty” — 19 (16);
10. “Movement” — 19 (16);
11. “Veres” — 18 (15);
12. “Obolon” — 17 (16);
13. “Kudrivka” – 15 (16);
14. “Epicenter” — 14 (16);
15. “Alexandria” — 11 (16);
16. “Poltava” – 9 (16).
Scorers: 7 goals — Prosper Oba (LNZ), Yuriy Klymchuk (Kolos), Pylyp Budkivskyi (Zorya), Yehor Tverdokhlib (Kryvbas), Mykola Gaiduchyk (Polissya), Babukar Fal (Rukh); 6 — Andriy Storchous (Kudrivka), Kaun Elias (Shakhtar); 5 — Gleiker Mendoza, Carlos Paraco, Maksym Zaderaka (all — Kryvbas), Joaquin Cifuentes (Epicenter), Vitaliy Buyalskyi (Dynamo), Bruninho (Karpaty), Pedrigno (Shakhtar); 4 — Oleksandr Karavayev (“Dynamo”), Serhiy Sukhanov (“Obolon”), Eginaldo, Luca Meirellis (both — Shakhtar), Tedi Tsara (“Olexandria”), Vitaliy Boyko (“Veres”), Maksym Bragaru (“Polissya”), Ihor Krasnopir (“Karpaty”).
In the first round of the UPL after the winter break, the 17th, the following teams will play (base date – February 21): Dynamo – Rukh, Kolos – Polissya, Metalist 1925 – Kryvbas, Kudrivka – Zorya, Oleksandria – Obolon, Veres – Poltava, Shakhtar – Karpaty, Epicenter – LNZ.
Previously, “FACTS” reported that the father of a football player from the leading club in the Ukrainian Premier League had died.
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