The 21st round of the Ukrainian football championship among top league teams opened with a match in Kyiv, where the local "Arsenal" and Lutsk's "Volyn" met on the pitch of the NSC "Olimpiyskyi".
Vitaliy Kvartsyany's squad once again confirmed the "greatness" of its ambitions not for the current season, but specifically the seriousness of its attempt to grab a piece of the pie called "a place in the UEFA Cup."
The players of both clubs had not yet managed to "enter," as they say, the game, when Sachko changed the numbers on the stadium scoreboard for the first time. This happened already in the 3rd minute of the match. The next goal had to wait until the second half, at the beginning of which "Volyn" scored again: Krunich receives congratulations from his partners.
This "control shot" instantly added activity to the hosts, which immediately showed on the scoreboard. Anikeyev in the 50th minute makes the guests' advantage minimal – 1:2. However, both clubs did not have enough for more, so the next 3 points in the tournament table go to the Lutsk players.
"Arsenal" (Kyiv) - "Volyn" (Lutsk) - 1:2 Goals: Anikeyev 50 - Sachko 3, Krunich 47
Other results of the 21st round matches.
"Borysfen" - "Dynamo" - 0:0 "Borysfen": Deonas, Kotelyukh, Cherniy, Dmytruk (Pshenychnykh 56), Honchar, Kyryukhin, Lytovchak, Trusevych (Shvets 73), Khomyn, Derkach (Sukhomlynov 75), Leviha "Dynamo": Shovkovskyi, Nesmachnyi, Rodrigo, Sablich, Husyev (Herasymyuk 78), Rodolfo, Hioane, Chernat, Belkevych (Diogo Rincon 60), Shatskykh, Verpakovskis (Milevskyi 58).
"Metalist" - "Shakhtar" - 0:1 Goal: Tymoshchuk 55
"Obolon" - "Zakarpattia" - 0:0
"Kryvbas" - "Tavriya" - 0:2 Goals: Poklonskyi 38, Zhunior 88
"Metalurh" Z - "Illichivets" - 0:2 Goals: Hai 59, Zakarlyuka 60
"Vorskla-Naftohaz" - "Chornomorets" - 0:0 Kosyrin 25 missed penalty
"Metalurh" D - "Dnipro" - 2:1 Goals: Checher 26, Demetradze 70, Kornylenko. "Metalurh": Virt, Ne, Bechiri, Checher, Neziri, Zotov, Ristich (Busaidi 52), Ture, Babangida (Demetradze 54), Mendoza (Mladenovych 90), Shyshchenko "Dnipro": Kernozenko, Rykun, Yezerskyi, Matyukhin, Rusol, Shelayev, Shevchuk (Kostyshyn 70), Radchenko, Nazarenko, Rotan (Balabanov 74), Kornylenko (Venhlinskyi 53).