YKPAIHIAH Cup 2012-13

Second Round matches tomorrow.

Of the 16 teams left three are from Druha Liha!

The other two are from the Persha Liha - including current leaders FC Sevastopol who are lucky to play against Nyva Ternopil. You might be surprised that this club is still around and not wound up as a historical illusion.

Anyway with DK out, It should be clear sailing for The Miners. They visit Zakrep tomorrow in what should be a formality. The other high profile encounter is Karpaty playing home against Metalist.

A couple of the games are early starters. Probably in some of these stadiums the floodlights are a bit suspect so Sverdlovs'k and Kramators'k are starting their games at 1:00pm and 2:00pm. I'd agree with their philosophy but on a Wednesday who the fark is going to show up?

The most intriguing match for me, is Selo Havnjuxivka - oops Pryiutivka in Kirvohrads'ka oblast, in the form of UkrAhroKomPartija(?!!!) or UkrAhroKomsomol(?!!!) or just UkrAhroKompanija hosting Chudo at Nika Stadion in Oleksandrija.

OK, I should give the Agrofutbolisty a bit of credit. They are top of Druha Liha B at the moment and last year nearly shocked Metalurh Zap. in the Kubok. This year they actually knocked them out of the Cup in the last round (but then again the Kozaks are a bunch of lame foot soldiers at the moment not having won a game all season). I wonder how Chudovo it would be to see them advance to the 1/4 finals?

 

Some interesting results in yesterday's Kubok games.

I was proven wrong that crowds would not show up for the early games of Shaxtar Sverlovsk/Volyn and Avanhard Kramatorsk/Arsenal Kyiv. Actually both games saw above 3,000. Most of all both minor league teams accounted for themselves in fine fashion. Arsenal found their winner very late in their game.

Also 8,000 show up at Ternopil to see their team fall to Sevastapol. Also they played beyond their standing and UkrAhroKom gave Chudo a might fright in the 2nd half before falling 2-1.

The other winners are from the PL games. #1 Shaxtar accounted for Zakrep in the 2nd half.
#2 Dnipro dumped Illich. However #4 Metalist lost in extra time to Karpaty in a super game.
Congrats to Karpaty for attracting the best crowd (21,000+) and the best highlights as well.
Tavriya took care of Vorskla after leading 3-0 in the 1st half faded to just win 3-2 in front of the lowest crowd of the night (1,500)

Draw for the 1/4 finals today - games next April .

 

Code:

Quarter Finals [17 April]
 
Volyn' Luts'k           -      Dnipro Dnipropetrovs'k
Shakhtar Donets'k       -      Karpaty L'viv
Arsenal Kyiv            -      Chornomorets' Odesa
FC Sevastopol           -      Tavrija Simferopol'

 

I reckon he'll get 6-8 games for such a stooooopid move...

WTF - The game's over. And you've won. Get in the clubrooms and enjoy.

Dumbassssssss

 

Shaxtar take care of Sevastopol 4-2 to book a place in the final which has been moved to XAPKIB...

Dnipro in front of Chudo in the other semi.

 

Well Dnipro choked and Chudo got ot the final?

Question...

Have Chudo already qualified for the Europa League?

 

Thats what I though and I update wikipedia qualification as such....

 

Wheres the live stream for this?

 

thx much!

 

Chornomorets advance to the next round of Kubok as Dnipro is expelled from the Kubok competition for the no show to the scheduled game.

http://www.ua-football.com/ukrainian/cup/528e132a.html

 

Slavutych Cherkasy 0-0 Shaxtar Donetsk after regular time!

Well Done Slavutych! Amazing that they held Shaxtar through regulation!