Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Ukrainian Premier League week 15 summary

Week 15 of the Ukrainian Premier League concluded with a stunning 1-0 upset of Dynamo Kyiv by Shakhtar Donetsk with Willian's goal eleven minutes before the break. Dynamo was troubled with extensive injury problems that left them without Taras Mykhalyk, Miloš Ninković and Andriy Nesmachnyy

Shakhtar Donetsk
30.Pyatov, 33.Srna – cap, 27.Chygrynskyy, 5.Kucher, 26.Rat, 3.Hübschman, 19.Gai, 22.Willian (8.Jadson, 66), 7.Fernandinho, 25.Brandao (21.Gladkyy, 90+2), 99.Moreno (10.Seleznyov, 46).

Dynamo Kyiv
31.Bogush, 3.Betão, 4.Ghioane (10.Bangoura, 59), 5.Vukojević, 6.Sablić, 8.Aliyev, 11.Eremenko, 15.Diakhaté, 25.Milevskyy, 30.El Kaddouri - cap, 70.Yarmolenko(49.Zozulya, 79).


Metalurh Donetsk defeated Arsenal 1-0 with Armenian international Ararat Arakelyan scoring with fourteen minutes remaining.



Chornomorets Odessa overwhelmed Metalurh Zaporizhya 3-1 with three unanswered goals after the break. Vladimir Karytska opened the scoring ten minutes after the break with Oleksandr Kosyrin scoring at the sixty-eighth and seventy-eighth minute. Michael Chidi Alozi added a consolation goal for Kozaky deep into added-time.



Tavriya Simferopol and Illichivets fought to a 3-3 draw in a breathtaking match that featured two denied penalty kicks and another two goals from the spot. The match opened with Illichivets' Dmytro Vorobey being awarded a penalty kick only four minutes in but without a result. However twelve minutes later Constantyn Yaroshenko gave them the lead twelve minutes later and Oleksandr Sytnyk doubled the margin only two minutes following the first goal. Oleksandr Kovpak had a chance to bring a goal back twenty-one minutes into the match from the spot but his strike didn't provide the needed goal. Ivan Kryvosheienko made it 3-0 from the spot with eight minutes remaining in the half before Tavriya Simferopol storming back with three unanswered goals. Andriy Donets' added the first three minutes from the break with Lucky Idahor bringing them within one at the hour mark and Slobodan Marković leveling the match with twenty minutes remaining.




Karpaty Lviv defeated Lviv 4-2 as Valeriy Fedorchuk opened the scoring at the ten minute mark for Lviv with Hryhoriy Baranets' doubling it eleven minutes later. Karpaty Lviv responded with four unanswered goals. Serhiy Kuznetsov drew one back with four minutes later and Denys Kozhanov leveled the match twelve minutes after the restart. Ihor Khudobiak gave them the lead four minutes after the hour mark with Mykhaylo Kopolovets' solidifying the victory with eleven minutes remaining.




Zorya Luhansk and Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk played to a 1-1 draw. Dnipriany's Vitaly Lysytsky opened the scoring only nine minutes into the match with Mirko Raičević leveling the match only two minutes later.







Kharkiv
and Metalist Kharkiv played to a 1-1 draw as Coelho opening the scoring twelve minutes after the start with a perfectly placed free-kick. Ruslan Platon brought the match one minute before the half hour mark heading in a cross from in-close range.



Finally Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih and Vorskla Poltava played to a nil draw.

Upcoming matches this week:
Lviv @ Shakhtar Donetsk
Zorya Luhansk @ Metalist
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih @ Metalurh Zaporizhya
Chornomorets Odessa @ Arsenal
Metalurh Donetsk @ Karpaty Lviv
Kharkiv @ Vorskla Poltava
Tavriya Simferopol @ Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk
Dynamo Kyiv @ Illichivets



Ukrainian Premier League
GP W D L GS GA P
Dynamo Kyiv 15121236737
Metalurh Donetsk 15102321932
Metalist Kharkiv 15942261131
Vorskla Poltava 1576215927
Shakhtar Donetsk 15672221225
Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk 15663141024
Metalurh Zaporizhya 15654151523
Zorya Luhansk 15564172121
Karpaty Lviv 15465151918
Chornomorets Odessa 15528161917
Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih 15366132015
Illichivets 15339122412
Arsenal Kyiv 15258112011
Tavriya Simferopol 15258183011
Lviv
1523109229
Kharkiv 150969219