In the matches of the second round of the Ukrainian football championship, "Tavriya", "Metalist" and "Shakhtar" continued their winning streak, remaining at the top of the standings. "Tavriya" in Simferopol, trailing during the game, managed to defeat FC "Kharkiv" – 2:1, "Metalist" overcame Kryvyi Rih's "Kryvbas" with a score of 1:0, and "Shakhtar" made "Dnipro" the championship's outsider, winning 2:0.

"Shakhtar" – "Dnipro" – 2:0 Goals: Vorobey 49, Jadson 79 - from a penalty "Shakhtar": Lashtuvka, Hyubshman, Rats (Shevchuk 58), Seykhan, Tymoshchuk, Dulyay, Matuzalem, Srna, Elano (Jadson 69), Vorobey, Bielik (Brandao 58). "Dnipro": Kusliy, Hrytsay, Radchenko, Rusol, Lysytskyi, Bidnenko (Balabanov 76), Mykhaylenko, Semochko, Nazarenko (Kravchenko 59), Melashchenko, Kornylenko (Kostyshyn 59).

It was the game in Donetsk that held the status of the central match of the round. "Dnipro" managed to resist the miners only in the first half. The absence of Yezerskyi, Rykun and Shelayev affected the play of Kucherevskyi's charges already at the score of 1:0 and when they were playing shorthanded.

At the start of the game, "Dnipro" exploded with two dangerous attacks. At the 50th second, Kornylenko's shot from 19 meters was saved by Lashtuvka not without problems, and a minute later Melashchenko nearly went one-on-one with the goalkeeper.

A significant contribution to the course of the game was made by the rain that fell throughout the first half. Nevertheless, "Shakhtar" had good chances from Seykhan, after whose header Kusliy had to work, and from shots by Bielik and Elano that were close to the target.

At the beginning of the second 45 minutes, the hosts' very first attack was productive. "Shakhtar" newcomer Seykhan in the guests' penalty area skillfully laid the ball off for Vorobey, who, playing ahead of Kusliy in the challenge, sent the ball into the "Dnipro" net – 1:0.

Then the "Dnipro" players complicated their task even more – not to lose a second match in a row. In the 59th minute, Ruslan Kostyshyn, who had come on as a substitute and had managed to play only a minute, drove into Tymoshchuk's legs from behind and received a red card from Shandor...

Left shorthanded, "Dnipro" could only defend. In the 79th minute, Vorobey entered the penalty area, where he fell in a challenge with Rusol. Referee Andrey Shandor awarded a penalty in a completely legitimate moment.

Jadson struck skillfully into the lower corner of the goal and made the score 2:0. A minute later, another "Shakhtar" attack and Brandao practically went one-on-one with Kusliy and was brought down in the penalty area by Rusol with a sliding tackle from behind. This time the referee for some reason did not show his principledness, although the moment was 100%.

Five minutes before the end of the match, Balabanov could have pulled one goal back, but his shot was saved by Lashtuvka.

"Arsenal" - "Dynamo" - 0:2 Goals: Rotan 39, Aliyev 89 - from a penalty. Arsenal: Bayrashevskyi, Honcharchyk, Bunyevchevich, Pershyn, Rozhon, Ibanga, Pirich (Batalskyi, 86), Uvarov (Rybachy 52), Kostyuk, (D. Vorobey, 60), A. Ivanov, Okoduva Dynamo: Shovkovskyi, Rodolfo, Nesmachnyi, Havranchych, Husyev, Leko, Belkevych, (Aliyev 70), Chernat (Hioane, 56), Rotan, Chesnauskis (Milevskyi, 51), Shatskykh.

Not without problems did Leonid Buryak get his first victory at the helm of "Dynamo". In the Kyiv derby with "Arsenal", the Dynamo players won with a score of 2:0. Moreover, "Dynamo" scored the second goal in the 90th minute of the match from a penalty, when a foul was committed against Aliyev and the victim himself punished the "gunners". Ruslan Rotan also scored his first goal for "Dynamo", marking himself in the 39th minute with a beautiful shot into the top corner of Bayrashevskyi's goal, opening the score in this match.

On the whole, "Dynamo" in the game with "Arsenal" had the advantage in goal-scoring chances, of which only Husyev had several, but "Arsenal" also went on the attack at the first more or less opportunity, albeit without result.

Let us note that both teams finished the end of the first half having 10 players each in their lineup. "Dynamo" had Shatskykh sent off, and "Arsenal" had Hanchazhyk, who clashed after an episode when the "Dynamo" forward committed a foul in the center. The referee's verdict was harsh – a second yellow card for both Shatskykh and Hanchazhyk resulted in dismissals.

"Tavriya" - FC Kharkiv - 2:1 Goals: Nesteruk 68, 79, Shopin 29

"Stal" - "Chornomorets" - 0:1 Goal: Kosyrin 83 - from a penalty

"Zakarpattia" - "Metalurh" Donetsk - 0:0

"Metalist" - "Kryvbas" - 1:0 Goal: Jakobia 67

"Metalurh" Zaporizhzhia - "Volyn" - 0:1 Goal: Sachko 70

"Illichivets" - "Vorskla" - 3:2 Goals: Konyushenko 14, Hrybanov 29, Hai 81 - from a penalty, Popov 5, Tsurri 64.