Karpaty and Ingulets will play for “gold” before the UPL: all the facts, personalities and figures of the 8th round of the second stage of the First League

Game program of the 8th round (video report here)

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:

For the first time, the Khmelnytskys single-handedly led the “Elimination” group (before that they came out on top with equal points with Bukovina). Thanks to a crushing victory over Dinaz and Chernivtsi’s misfire in the home match with Kremen (0:1), Kostyshin’s team took the lead with one point advantage, which is very important two rounds before the finish. Podolia won all four home matches in 2024 and managed to play brightly and effectively in a match that was no less important for its competitors.

Analysis from the All-Ukrainian Association of Football Coaches – Here.

What a tour for jokers! Just a list: goals or assists after substitutions were scored by Sergei Miserzhi (Podolia), Daniil Falkovsky (Kudrovka-Niva), Dzhilindo Bezgubchenko (FC Chernihiv), Yuri Tlumak and Egor Demchenko (Karpaty), Vyacheslav Studenko and Vladislav Mukhamatgaleev (Gornyk Sport), Alex Chidomere (Metalist), Andrey Riiznyk (Niva). Falkovsky’s most significant contribution to the strong-willed victory was assisting Korkishko on the crucial first goal in Poltava and scoring the winning goal himself from a late penalty.

• Sport Arena statistics: 21 league matches, 3 goals, 1 assist.

After returning to the Carpathians, Tlumak Jr. started all over again and has now taken a significant step to win the favor and trust of Markevich. At the most important moment, when the leadership of the Lviv team was in question, 21-year-old Tlumak scored the winning goal against FSK Mariupol. During this trip, Yuri received 19 minutes plus injury time and took full advantage of the opportunity to prove himself.

• Sport Arena statistics: 3 matches in the championship, 1 goal.

And by the way, we have quite a spectacular tour! A cool free kick from Mariupol’s Savin, a juicy shot after a discount from Ternopil’s Kitsun into the top corner, an own goal by Epicenter goalkeeper Zhmurko after a well-aimed long-range shot from Sumy’s Lebedenko. The funny heads alone on this tour could fill a hit parade! But you only need to choose one. Well, let’s pay tribute to the art of taking set pieces, the goal is really very beautiful. We quote the report: “In an optional situation, Klimenko touched Petrovsky, and Savin, with his right foot, converted this free kick from the left flank – 1:1. For Anton, this is his debut goal for the new team, where he moved after playing for LNZ (with this club he reached the UPL).”

The goal can be seen on video at 3:27

Read later on our website an interview with the player who scored a double in the victorious match with Metalist – his team won a strong-willed victory in a difficult away game after the wild card double.

• Sport Arena statistics: 7 league matches, 3 goals.

Andrey Melnichuk was fired from the position of head coach of Bukovyna, and the club also announced farewell to his first assistant Sergei Solovyov. Sports director Grigory Churilov will act as head coach of Bukovina in the final two matches. At the end of the season, the football team will undergo a major overhaul and a new coaching staff will be appointed.

Five clubs fired their head coaches during the 2023/24 First League, reports Sport Arena.

Ingulets received a second direct ticket to the UPL. But the championship issue has not yet been resolved – the most interesting things are yet to come.

A few more interesting things:

• The 200th match in the First League was played by Evgeniy Zadoya (Mariupol), the 100th by Mykola Kogut, the 50th by Daniil Sukhoruchko (both Left Bank), Dmitry Kopytov (Poltava), Vladislav Khamelyuk (Bukovina)
• The 15th goal in the First League is scored by Valeriy Sad (Ingulets), the 10th by Daniil Kravchuk (both Epicenter), the 1st by Maxim Solovyov (Prykarpattya, in the 44th game), Alex Chidomere (Metalist, in the 14th game). th), Gilindo Bezgubchenko (Chernigov, in the 21st), Marko Kitsun (Niva, in the 6th)
• Anatoly Bessmertny (Victoria) held his 137th coaching match in the First League, catching up with Mikhail Fomenko, who was in 32nd place in the historical list of guards coaches.
• Marco Kitsun scored the 200th goal of the Ternopil team during Niva’s entire performance in the First League
• FC Chernigov scored the 50th goal in the First League – after the second accurate strike by Vladislav Shkolny
• Assistant referee Zaur Kurbanov (Kherson) played his 134th match in the First League and took 4th place in the list of guards-assistant referees, one game ahead of Alexander Krevsky (Vyshgorod).
• FC Chernigov scored 4 goals in one game of the First League for the first time, FC Khust conceded so many goals at home for the first time
• More interesting things in the PFL digital selection, whose media partner is Sport Arena.

Realities of our time. For those who are interested in football players taking cover during an air raid / photo: fcepicentr.com.ua

• Tournament table
• Group “Champion”

• Elimination Group

• Bombers

• Assistants

• Goal+ass

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All calculations by Arthur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material was written by the author in Ukrainian.

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