Sport Arena names the best in the First League of the 2023/24 season, round by round, and provides exclusive statistics. The best player, wild card, young player, coach and hero of the tour, as well as the best goal, main numbers and much more
Game program of the 6th round (video report here)
Group “Champion” | Elimination Group |
Saturday, April 27 | Friday, April 26 |
SK Poltava – Karpaty – 0:1 | Metalist ‒ Flint – 2:1 |
Left Bank ‒ Kudrovka-Niva – 1:2 | Saturday, April 27 |
Ingulets ‒ Prykarpattya ‒ 4:0 | Bukovyna – Dinaz ‒ 0:1 |
Sunday, April 28 | Podolia – FC Chernigov ‒ 2:1 |
Victoria – Agribusiness – 1:0 | Sunday, April 28 |
FSK Mariupol ‒ Epicenter – 0:1 | Nyva (Ternopil) – Gornyak-Sport – 2:0 |
The match between FC Khust and Metallurg did not take place |
Already traditional:
- Read soon on our website the symbolic team of the next round
- interview with the hero of the tour, whom Sport Arena determines together with the PFL
And now – our individual nominations:
At the start of the second stage, when Loktionov made his debut at the head of the renewed team, Left Bank inflicted a home defeat of 5:1, being in a double numerical majority. Now, when it was extremely important for the people of Kiev to win points in order to keep up with the duo of leaders, the Kudrovsky-Buzov team strictly played to the opponent, showed strong-willed qualities and took revenge at the stadium, where one of the contenders for medals lost only a few times.
Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – Here.
In this round, Kharkov resident Daniil Kaidalov and Ternopil resident Dmitry Galadei scored goals after coming on as substitutes. Kobzar also scored “from the bench”, but at the same time he also earned a penalty and the opponent was sent off for this goal. It took Bogdan only 12 minutes on the field to turn the tide of the match against FC Chernigov.
- Sport Arena statistics: 16 league matches, 2 goals, 1 assist.
The 20-year-old winger was in the deep reserves of the Left Bank, but after moving to Niva he received playing practice and a sense of importance for the team. It was he who gave Galadei an assist for the second goal and began his team’s first effective attack in the match with Gornyak-Sport, which was completed by Riznyk with a pass from Doroshenko.
- Sport Arena statistics: 6 league matches, 1 goal, 2 assists.
This is a tour of working heads, there were especially many of them from the “second floor”. As for aesthetics, we will choose one shot from the middle distance, a springboard in front of the goal. We quote the report: “After Bogunov’s serve, Sitalo lost the aerial battle, but it turned out that the ball bounced straight to Vitaly, who fired into the near corner from outside the penalty area with one touch from his right foot.”
The goal can be seen on video at 4:01
Read later on our website an interview with the player who kept a clean sheet in Poltava, thanks to which his team advanced to the UPL early.
- Sport Arena statistics: 24 matches in the championship, 15 clean sheets, 14 goals conceded.
That’s how the Carpathians are celebrated reaching the UPL
The head of the UAF Ethics and Fair Play Committee, Andrei Davydenko, began an investigation into possible influence (manipulation) on the result of the Metalist – Kremin match in the 6th round of the First League (Knockout group). Director of FC Kremen Andrei Fil said that the club would conduct an inspection: “The president of the club said that we are going to a lie detector test on Sunday. I am the director of the club, the head coach of the team Igor Klimovsky and the goalkeeper Arseniy Korkodim. We will answer the question whether there were any agreements regarding this match.”
Kremenchuz goalkeeper Korkodim managed to react: “First of all, it’s unpleasant to hear such words from the club director. I admit my guilt in conceding goals. Unfortunately, I made unfortunate mistakes that led to defeat. I could have played better, but, in my opinion, I did not deserve such comments addressed to me. “I have nothing to hide, I am ready to undergo any independent polygraph if necessary.”
To be continued?..
Vitaly Pervak and Roman Loktionov crossed paths in previous teams as a coach and player, and now the student has defeated the teacher / photo: facebook.com/fclbkyiv
Karpaty ahead of schedule became the holders of a ticket to the UPL, and Ingulets won the right to at least play in the play-offs for a return to the UPL.
A few more interesting things:
- 250th match of Metalist in the First League: +113=56-81 goals 342-244, 130th match of Agribusiness: +48=36-46 goals 151-138
- Podolia conceded the 500th goal in the First League
- Podillya’s 50th home penalty in the First League – 37th goal (Kobzar took the shot for the first time – and immediately scored)
- Denis Pidruchny (Metalist) played his 50th match in the First League
- The 10th goal in the First League is scored by Igor Neves Alves (Karpaty), the 5th by Nikolay Vechurko (Kudrovka-Niva), Dmitry Galadei (Niva), the 1st by Daniil Kaidalov (Metalist, in the 12th game);
- in the 3rd First League club, Dmitry Korkishko (Kudrovka-Niva), who previously scored against opponents Dynamo-2, Chernomorets, Nazariy Nich (Victoria) – Volyn, LNZ, 2nd – Vladimir Belotserkovets (Ingulets) – Metallurg, opens the goal count for himself
More interesting things – in the digital collection of PFL, information partner which is Sport Arena.
- Tournament table
- Group “Champion”
- Elimination Group
- Bombers
Player | Team | Goals | Pen |
Palagnyuk Vasily | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 14 | (5) |
Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 13 | |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 12 | (3) |
Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | 10 | (1) |
Spivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 10 | (5) |
Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 10 | (6) |
Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 9 | |
Ryazantsev Evgeniy | Metallist (Kharkov) | 9 | |
Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 9 | |
Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | 8 | |
Bogunov Yaroslav | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 7 | (1) |
Garden Valery | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 7 | (3) |
Palamar Ruslan | Dinaz (Vyshgorod) | 7 | (4) |
- Assistants
Player | Team | Passes |
Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | 10 |
Zaporozhets Evgeniy | ***Ingulets (Petrovo)*** | 8 |
Kogut Ivan | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 7 |
Prikhodko Nazar | FC Khust | 7 |
Astakhov Ernest | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 6 |
Kostenko Yan | Carpathians (Lviv) | 6 |
Podlepenets Evgeniy | Carpathians (Lviv) | 6 |
Tsyutsyura Vasily | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 6 |
Orobets Ivan | Podolia (Khmelnitsky) | 5 |
Ulyanov Dmitry | Victoria (Nikolaevka) | 5 |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 5 |
- Goal+ass
Player | Team | Goal+Pass | Goals | Passes |
Shcherbak Dmitry | SK Poltava | 17 | 12 | 5 |
Palagnyuk Vasily | Bukovina (Chernivtsi) | 15 | 14 | 1 |
Khoma Andrey | Prykarpattya (Ivano-Frankivsk) | 14 | 13 | 1 |
Shmigelsky Bogdan | SK Poltava | 14 | 4 | 10 |
Igor Neves Alves | Carpathians (Lviv) | 12 | 10 | 2 |
Kostenko Yan | Carpathians (Lviv) | 12 | 6 | 6 |
Koltsov Vitaly | Ingulets (Petrovo) | eleven | 10 | 1 |
Spivakov Andrey | Left Bank (Kyiv) | eleven | 10 | 1 |
Kozak Alexander | Ingulets (Petrovo) | eleven | 9 | 2 |
Ryazantsev Evgeniy | Metallist (Kharkov) | eleven | 9 | 2 |
Kravchuk Daniil | Epicenter (Kamenets-Podolsky) | eleven | 8 | 3 |
Podlepenets Evgeniy | Carpathians (Lviv) | eleven | 5 | 6 |
Sukhoruchko Daniil | Left Bank (Kyiv) | 10 | 9 | 1 |
Garden Valery | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 10 | 7 | 3 |
Sitalo Artem | Ingulets (Petrovo) | 10 | 6 | 4 |
Prikhodko Nazar | FC Khust | 10 | 3 | 7 |
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All calculations by Arthur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material was written by the author in Ukrainian.
Source: Sportarena
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