On Monday, April 6, after a break during which the Ukrainian national team managed to miss out on a place at the 2026 World Cup, the 22nd round of the domestic Premier League ended with a match at the “Left Bank” stadium near Kyiv.
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Ukrainian Championship. 22nd round
April 6 (Monday)
“Epicenter” (Kamyanetsi-Podilskyi) – “Kudrivka” – 1:0 (Rojas, 56). Rojas (“Epicenter”) was sent off in the 56th minute. Junior squads – 1:2.
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April 5 (Sunday)
“Polissya” (Zhytomyr) – “Veres” (Rivne) – 1:1 (Andrievsky, 35 – Sharai, 45). Junior teams – 0:0.
Shakhtar (Donetsk) — Rukh (Lviv) — 3:0 (Eginaldo, 34, 62, Meirelles, 89). In the 90+4th minute, Pedrino (Shakhtar) missed a penalty. Junior teams — 3:1.
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Shakhtar: Riznyk, Azarov, Marlon Santos (Matvienko, 46), Bondar (Gram, 90), Konoplya, Bondarenko, Nazarina, Pedrino, Prosper (Isake, 50), Eguinaldo (Ferreira, 73), Traore (Meirellis, 73).
“Obolon” (Kyiv) – “Zorya” (Luhansk) – 3:3 (Pryimak, 36, Volokhaty, 60, Lyakh, 84 – Vantukh, 6, Perduta, 52, Budkivskyi, 65, from penalty). Junior squads – 1:0.
“Kryvbas” (Kryvyi Rih) – LNZ (Cherkasy) – 0:3 (Kravchuk, 55, 66, Nonikashvili, 84). Junior squads – 1:2.
April 4 (Saturday)
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Dynamo (Kyiv) — Karpaty (Lviv) — 0:1 (Foul, 6). Ponomarenko (Dynamo) was sent off in the 90+3rd minute. Youth teams — 5:0.
Dynamo: Nescheret, Korobov, Popov, Bilovar, Vivcharenko, Brazhko, Shaparenko (Mykhailenko, 60), Pikhalyonok (Buyalsky, 72), Yarmolenko (Voloshyn, 60), Redushko, Ponomarenko.
“Kolos” (Kovalyvka) – “Metalist 1925” (Kharkiv) – 0:0 . Kalyuzhny (“Metalist 1925”) was sent off in the 85th minute. Junior teams – 1:0.
April 3 (Friday)
Poltava — Oleksandria — 3:3 (Doroshenko, 40, Kobzar, 60, Plakhtyr, 72 — Castillo, 7, Mateus, 31, 37). Junior squads — 0:4.
Teams' position:
1. LNZ — 50 points (22 matches);
2. Shakhtar — 50 (21);
3. “Polissya” — 43 (22);
4. “Dynamo” — 41 (22);
5. “Metalist 1925” — 35 (21);
6. Kryvbas — 34 (22);
7. “Kolos” — 33 (22);
8. “Karpaty” — 29 (22);
9. “Zorya” — 29 (21);
10. “Obolon” — 25 (22);
11. “Veres” — 23 (21);
12. “Epicenter” — 23 (22);
13. “Kudrivka” – 21 (22);
14. “Movement” — 19 (22);
15. “Alexandria” — 12 (22);
16. Poltava — 10 (22).
Scorers: 9 goals — Matviy Ponomarenko (Dynamo), Babukar Fal (Rukh / Karpaty), Pylyp Budkivskyi (Zorya); 8 — Mykola Gaiduchyk (Polissya); 7 — Oba Prosper (LNZ / Shakhtar), Yuriy Klymchuk (Kolos), Yehor Tverdokhlib (Kryvbas / LNZ), Andriy Storchous (Kudrivka), Mark Assinor (LNZ), Nemanja Andushych (Zorya), Bruninho (Karpaty); 6 — Kaun Elias (Shakhtar), Maksym Zaderaka, Gleyker Mendoza, Carlos Paraco (all — Kryvbas), Ihor Krasnopir (Karpaty / Polissya), Denys Ustimenko (Obolon), Joaquin Cifuentes (Epicenter), Pedrigno, Eginaldo (both — Shakhtar), Oleksiy Hutsulyak (Polissya); 5 — Andriy Yarmolenko, Vitaliy Buyalsky (both — Dynamo).
In the 23rd round of the UPL, the following matches will be played: April 10 (Friday) – Poltava – Polissya (1:00 PM), Rukh – Kolos (6:00 PM); April 11 (Saturday) – Karpaty – Oleksandria (1:00 PM), Metalist 1925 – Dynamo (3:30 PM), Veres – Obolon (6:00 PM); April 12 (Sunday) – Kudrivka – Kryvbas (1:00 PM), Zorya – Epicenter (3:30 PM); April 13 (Monday) – LNZ – Shakhtar (1:00 PM).
Previously, “FACTS” reported that the Ukrainian national team defeated the Albanian team in a friendly match.
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