Sport Arena names the best in the First League of the 2023/24 season round after round and provides exclusive statistics. Your attention – the best player, joker, young player, coach and hero of the tour, as well as the best goal, the main numbers and much more
Game program of the 4th round (report with video here)
| Group A | Group B |
| Friday, August 18 | Saturday, August 19 |
| Karpaty – Niva (Buzovaya) – 1:1 | Dinaz – Victoria – 0:1 |
| Saturday, August 19 | Gornyak-Sport – Flint – 0:1 |
| FC Khust – Agribusiness – 0:1 | SK Poltava – Metallurg – 1:2 |
| Podolia – Epicenter – 0:0 | Ingulets ‒ Left Bank ‒ 2:1 |
| Sunday, August 20 | rescheduled |
| Bukovina – Prykarpattya – 1:0 | FC Chernihiv ‒ FSK Mariupol |
| Niva (Ternopil) – Metalist – 0:1 |
Already traditional:
- read soon on our website the symbolic team of the next round
- interview with the hero of the tour, which the Sport Arena determines together with the PFL
And now – our individual nominations:
Kharkiv players play with the youngest line-up in the western group, but at the same time they demonstrate bold attacking football. In Ternopil, from the first minutes they began to create chances at the gates of such a well-played team as Niva, and also completed a large number of serves from corners and other standards. Anishchenko was not afraid to put out two of the freshest newcomers from the first minutes – the Lutsiv brothers, which fully justified itself, and also managed to replace several lost players, including defender Vernattus, who was removed in the last round. With the youth and inexperience of the wards, Metalist had a chance to win points in every round and finally broke the losing streak that had been going on since May – since the Premier League.
- Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – here.
There are many successful substitutions on this tour. For example, Duhota from Chernivtsi in his debut match brought the first victory of the season to Bukovina, and Litovchenko from the Left Bank returned hope to the team in the central match of the tour, when somehow the fifth after a free kick gave an assist to Slotyuk. However, our laureate is special. Timenko, one of the old-timers from Buzov, who has been playing in Niva since amateur times, after 15 minutes on the field managed to equalize the score in Lviv with a header after Dvorovenko’s out from the right flank. The Carpathians have not lost points before.
- SportArena.com stats: 3 league matches, 1 penalty shootout.
The 22-year-old midfielder worked in Dynamo and Shakhtar in his youth, showed promise in Kolos, made his senior debut with Dinaz. But recently he played in the championship of the Kyiv region as part of Dengoff. The recent situational amateur noted his return to the professional level with a winning goal in his debut match.
- Sport Arena stats: 1 league match, 1 goal.
This is the least productive round of the new season – 13 goals in nine matches, and perhaps the postponement of Chernihiv will improve this statistic. Therefore, there is not much to choose from, and some goals (like Shcherbak from Poltava) are interesting for more preparatory work, in particular, Zidane’s feint from an assistant. So this is our choice. Quoting the report: “Andrey Globa put his team ahead with a great free-kick.”
The goal can be seen on video from 2:58
Read later on our website an interview with the player who scored the winning goal in the central match of the tour.
- Sport Arena stats: 4 league matches, 1 goal.
The victory was so close… Photo t.me/fcPodillya
Ingulets is the last club of the current season, which still has not lost points in the First League.
A few more interesting things:
- Metalist broke the losing streak (9: +0=1-8), which had been going on since the beginning of May (1:0 over PFC Lviv in the UPL)
- The 150th match in the First League was held by Oleksandr Tsybulnyk (Podolia), the 100th by Vyacheslav Turchanov (Niva B), Dmitry Eremenko, Vitaliy Gemega (both Dinaz), the 50th by Valery Sad (Metallurg), Stanislav-Nuri Malysh (Ingulets), Sergiy Shvets (Prykarpattya), 1st – Daniel Banik, Vasily Vasilynets (both Khust), Valeriy Samar (Left Bank), Viktor Yan Souza Santos (Metalist)
- The 20th goal in the First League is scored by Denis Galata (Metallurg), the 1st goal is scored by Vladimir Timenko (Niva B, in the 5th game), Sergey Paliukh (Metallurg, in the 65th), Bogdan Duhota (Bukovina, in the 10th d) d), Vasily Lutsiv (Metalist, in the 4th)
More interesting things can be found in the digital selection of the PFL, the information partner of which is Sport Arena.
- Tournament table after the 4th round
- Group A
| M | Team | AND | IN | H | P | Mz | MP | +/- | ABOUT | |
| 1 | ‒ | Niva (Buzovya) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | +4 | 10 |
| 2 | ‒ | Carpathians (Lviv) | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 2 | +3 | 10 |
| 3 | ‒ | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsk) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 8 |
| 4 | ↑1 | Agribusiness (Volochisk) | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 4 | +2 | 7 |
| 5 | ↓1 | Niva (Ternoprl) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 6 | ↑1 | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 7 | ↑3 | Metalist (Kharkiv) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -2 | 4 |
| 8 | ↓2 | Podolia (Khmelnitsky) | 4 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | -2 | 3 |
| 9 | ‒ | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | -3 | 1 |
| 10 | ↓2 | FC Khust | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | -3 | 1 |
- Group B
| M | Team | AND | IN | H | P | Mz | MP | +/- | ABOUT | |
| 1 | ‒ | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | +11 | 12 |
| 2 | ↑2 | Victoria (Nikolaevka) | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 1 | +2 | 8 |
| 3 | ↓1 | Left bank (Kyiv) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 12 | 6 | +6 | 6 |
| 4 | ↓1 | Gornyak-Sport (Gorishni Plavni) | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 6 | -4 | 6 |
| 5 | ↑4 | Metallurgist (Zaporozhye) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
| 6 | ↑4 | Flint (Kremenchug) | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | -1 | 4 |
| 7 | ↓2 | SK Poltava | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -4 | 4 |
| 8 | ↓2 | FK Chernihiv | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -5 | 3 |
| 9 | ↓2 | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 3 |
| 10 | ↓2 | FSK Mariupol | 3 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 | 2 |
- scorers
| Player | Team | Group | goals | Pen. |
| Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 4 | |
| Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 3 | |
| Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | A | 3 | (1) |
| Palamar Ruslan | Niva (Buzovaya) | A | 3 | (1) |
| Shevchenko Vyacheslav | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | B | 3 | (2) |
- assistants
| Player | Team | Group | Passes |
| Zaporozhets Eugene | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 4 |
| Belotserkovets Vladimir | Metallurgist (Zaporozhye) | B | 2 |
| Dedukh Ruslan | Left bank (Kyiv) | B | 2 |
| Pyatov Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 2 |
| Shavrin Vadim | Victoria (Nikolaevka) | B | 2 |
- Goal+pass
| Player | Team | Group | Goal + Pass | goals | Passes |
| Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 5 | 4 | 1 |
| Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | A | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 4 | 3 | 1 |
| Zaporozhets Eugene | Ingulets (Petrovo) | B | 4 | 0 | 4 |
| Palamar Ruslan | Niva (Buzovaya) | A | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Shevchenko Vyacheslav | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | B | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Voitsekhovsky Vladislav | Left bank (Kyiv) | B | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Litovchenko Alexey | Left bank (Kyiv) | B | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | B | 3 | 2 | 1 |
| Dedukh Ruslan | Left bank (Kyiv) | B | 3 | 1 | 2 |
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All calculations – Artur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material is written by the author in Ukrainian.
Source: Sportarena
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