On Sunday the last round of the Ukrainian Premier League before a winter break was played. Shakhtar Donetsk beat Kryvbas Kryviy Rih in away match (4:0) and returned to the second place. So, now miners have 51 point, one point less than Dynamo and four points ahead of Metalist.

If the footballers of Yuriy Maksymov had defeated acting champions, they would have replace Dnipro on the fourth place. But they didn’t manage to do it and stayed fifth. Shakhtar, which lost hops to continue their European campaign in spring, tries its best in the national championship. They have won all three December matches scoring 11 goals.

On the 10^th minute Douglas Costa opened the score, on the 61^st made an effective pass to Henrikh Mhitarian. Six minutes before a final whistle Eduardo put the third one into opponent’s net and during added time Luis Adriano headed his 8^th goal this season in Premier League.

On Saturday Dynamo Kyiv defeated Karpaty Lviv thanks to the only goal of Brown Ideye on the 88^th minute. So the team of Yuriy Siomin will spend its winter break in a role of leaders. Metalist in its turn had no problems with Oleksandriya - 3:1. Marco Devic made a double. In another match Dnipro beat Chornomorets and became fourth.