Personalities and figures of the 5th round of the First League: Nagornyak, Shinkarenko, Litvinov, Gorny

Game program of the 5th 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, which the Sport Arena determines together with the PFL

And now – our individual nominations:

The Lviv Karpaty remained the last in the First League who did not lose points – and before the visit of the Epicenter to the legendary stadium, Ukraine were the obvious favorites of the confrontation between the two newcomers of the division. Nevertheless, the guests from the Khmelnytsky region strictly followed the coaching instructions, diligently and carefully acted in martial arts and one-on-one, for which they were fully rewarded in front. The epicenter not only successfully stopped opponents, but also used their mistakes in defense.

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

Only five minutes was enough for the newcomer Gornyak-Sport to score a surprisingly important second goal against Obolon. The leader of group B lost in Horishni Plavni, conceding in the first half, and after the break, he could not hold Vladislav. In the 73rd minute, he was the first to find his bearings on the rebound from a corner, opening the scoring for his goals for the new team. It’s nice that the late pupil of FC Dnipro finds himself under the leadership of Zhabchenko.

SportArena.com stats: 2 matches in the championship, 1 goal.

This capable defender was engaged in Smena-Obolon and Kolas Kolos, but now, at the age of 20, he resolutely entered professional competitions. From the beginning of the season, Golovko trusted Litvinov, whom he entrusted with the right-back position. In Ivano-Frankivsk, Oleksandr not only coped with the impetuous players of the Carpathian region, but also constantly supported the playing president along the entire length of the flank. It was he who started that fast attack, which eventually ended with a goal by Starenky.

Sport Arena stats: 5 league matches.

In this round, there were many goals from set pieces and high-quality, well-played multi-way combinations (see goals from Dinaz, Poltava, LNZ). Our attention was drawn to the crazy by surprise mistake and the first goal of Epicenter, which was of high quality in terms of reaction and execution. Quoting the report: “No sooner had the hosts put the ball into play after a not very dangerous pass by Puchkovskiy, [вратарь] Lepka passed the ball exactly to Gorny, and Maxim took it and shot the goal with his right foot from 18 meters – 0:1.

Goal can be seen on video from 1:48

Read later on our website an interview with a player who scored a brace in the match against Lviv Karpaty, his home club.

Sport Arena stats: 5 league matches, 4 goals, 1 assist.

Interesting math: Lviv goalkeeper Roman Lepka conceded twice as many goals in one match against Epicenter than in the previous four rounds. Photo: facebook.com/karpaty.lviv

In both groups, the leaders lost and lost their first places.

A few more interesting things:

• Karpaty lost points for the first time in the season, SC Poltava won the first victory after promotion
• The 100th match in the First League was played by Oleg Tarasenko (LNZ), the 50th by Andrey Reznik (Niva)
• In the 7th (!) club of the First League for himself, Anton Savin (LNZ) opens the scoring with goals, who previously scored against rivals Bukovina, Helios, Neftyanik, FC Sumy, FC Poltava and Metalist 1925

More interesting things are in the PFL selection, the information partner of which is Sport Arena.

• Tournament table after the 5th round
• Group A

• Group B

• scorers

• assistants

• Goal+pass

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All calculations – Artur Valerko, SportArena.com. The material is written by the author in Ukrainian.