The pitch and appendicitis

13-11-09 16:48:26

Ukrainian youth championship. 11 round
13, November 2009. Mukachevo.Pryborostroitel Stadium. Att.:200. +9 C

Zakarpattya, Uzhgorod - Shakhtar — 1:1 (0:0)

Goals: 1:0 Gegedosh (55), 1:1 Chaikovskyy (78, penalty)

Kartushov hasn’t fulfilled penalty shot, 51^st minute

Shakhtar: Bazylevych, Oliynyk, Butko, Kovalyov, Zhychykov (Imerekov,70), Grechyshkyn (Nekhtiy,46), Fedotov, Chaykovskyy, Ilyuk, Nasibulin, Kartushov

Head Coach: Valeriy Yaremchenko

Referee: Andriy Yablonskyy (Ternopil)

There was an obvious favourite in this match. The thing is that Uzhgorod reserves have gained only one point this season. Donetsk team seemed to be able to gain three points hands down. But out team has repeated the “exploit” of the first team, having been unable to overcome Zakarpattya team..

Valeriy Yaremchenko team was short of staff. Unplanned lack of the player compicated the situation with the planned absence of Vitaliy Vytsenets who is capped for Ukraine youth team. Last night Genadiy Klymenko was operated on appendicitis in Uzhgorod. Therefore only fifteen players were put in the match report.

The game was going on the hard bad quality pitch. In spite of this young miners had an advantage, creating one goal-scoring opportunity after another. But they didn’t fulfill any. The first half score was 0:0.

It seemed to have started to develop when penalty shot, earned by Maksym Illyuk, was appointed in the second half. But yegor Kartushov’s shot was fixed by Zakarpattya keeper Andriy Mykhailov. The classical vice versa variant happened in 4 minutes. A penalty shot was appointed for our footballer playing in his own penalty area, and was successfully fulfilled. 0:1. the whole our team started to revenge. On 78^th minute the miners’ earned the second penalty shot, which was scored by Igor Chaikovskyy. 1:1. Alas, Donetsk team couldn’t score any more. It was a frustrating loss of two points!

— I won’t complain about bad pitch and absence of several players, — valeriy Yaremchenko said after the match. — We had to win. It was our game but we haven’t learned to score yet. We have a lot of new players and we must work hard. We frankly lacked concentration. And you need to do your best in any game against any rival. It served my players right!

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