It seems that the current "Shakhtar" is indeed in a playing crisis. The third defeat in the last four matches cannot be regarded as anything other than a failure. How long the way out of the nosedive of Mircea Lucescu's team will be is currently unknown.

Dnipropetrovsk's "Dnipro" in the second match of the UEFA Cup group tournament defeated the Dutch "Utrecht" on foreign soil - 2:1.

Madrid's "Real", which came to Kyiv for a victory, barely managed to preserve a point in the game against Kyiv's "Dynamo" at the packed NSC "Olimpiyskyi", playing to a 2:2 draw.

Now one can be offended at the French referee Eric Poulat, who awarded a free kick 14 meters from the goal for time-wasting by Lashtuvka when kicking the ball out, one can say that the same referee could have not sent off two "Shakhtar" players, but the wards of Mircea Lucescu themselves gave the "man in black"…

On November 2 in Glasgow, in the match of the 4th round of the group stage of the UEFA Champions League, Donetsk "Shakhtar" will meet with Scottish "Celtic".

The Ukrainian men's national team has broken the hegemony of the Russian team at the Chess Olympiads. In the Spanish city of Calvia, the Ukrainians secured a confident victory, finishing three points ahead of their nearest pursuer – the Russian team.

The Chinese women's team secured victory in this tournament a round before the end of the World Chess Olympiad. The Chinese chess players have 29 points. The teams of Georgia and the USA, each with 25.5 points, will compete for second place.

The Ukrainian men's team has strengthened its lead at the 36th Chess Olympiad in Mallorca. The day before, the Ukrainians defeated the Polish team - 2.5 to 1.5 points. \n \nSerhiy Karyakin and Pavlo Elyanov won. Vasyl Ivanchuk drew with Maciej Bartlomiej, and Andriy Volokitin lost.

Three rounds before the end of the World Chess Olympiad, which is taking place in the Spanish city of Calvia, the Ukrainian men's team made another confident step toward overall victory.

The Ukrainian men's chess team in the ninth round of the Olympiad in the Spanish city of Calvia played to a draw with the team of Armenia. The score of the game is 2:2. However, the Ukrainians still lead the overall standings, having 27 points to their credit.