The footballers of Mircea Lucescu started a new season of the Ukrainian Premier League from a victory. They beat Kryvbas in a home match at Donbas Arena - 2:0. The score was opened after half an hour by Yaroslav Rakytskiy. Then Shakhtar players had a lot of moments, but couldn’t double the score. At the 78th minute the footballers of Yuriy Maksymov could even put one back, but Oleksandr Ivaschenko hit the crossbar. Shakhtar answered with a goal of Villian after a perfect pass of Kostiantyn Kravchenko.
The two participants of this year’s UEFA Europa League Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Karpaty Lviv, who were the fourth and the fifth after the last season accordingly met in another match. The opponents played very attentively, so the defense of each team didn’t let the attacking players take their chances. The only mistake of the footballers of Oleg Kononov at the end of the match became fatal for his team. After a corner of Maksym Kalynychenko Yevhen Cheberiachko was first who appeared near the ball and headed. This goal was the only one and decisive in this match.
On Saturday Obolon didn’t let another Kyiv team Dynamo start the season from a victory, as they made a draw result already during the added time. The footballers of Valeriy Gazzaiev started in a good manner and in the middle of the first half they scored twice during two minutes. It was Andriy Shevchenko and Andriy Yarmolenko who overplayed the goalkeeper of Obolon Oleg Ostapenko. The footballers of Sergiy Kovalets at first put one back at the 60 minute thanks to the goal of Oleksandr Mandziuk and at the first added minute to the second half Mandziuk made a double.
