YKPAIHIAH Vyshcha Liha 2011/12

Yet, they will still, most likely, finish 3rd in the UPL, aren't they?

 

They have played the Gopak since a while ago always after a Ukrainian player scores a goal.

 

Dnipro looked like it shut down after the Aliev goal. Konoplyanka ran out of gas, didn't make a single threatening move. Dnipro, for all its talent on the wings, lacks someone who can stay in the middle and carve up defenses.

On another note, it was surprising to see Haruna starting in the middle instead of Vukojevic. Not quite sure about it, but it didn't seem to work out too badly.

 

Vukojevic had been having injury troubles throughout the winter break. Luckily, Dnipro did not put much pressure through the middle.

BTW, before anyone says anything - yes, I thought Dnipro had a legitimate penalty shout in the first half.

 

Someone also clued me in to the fact that Dnipro player was going down on his own before the contact.

 

Every year I have a vague glimmer of hope that this is going to be the year. And every year I quickly suppress that glimmer deep down into a dark hole.

This year that glimmer has stuck around longer than I'm used to


1 Dynamo Kyiv 61
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2 Shakhtar Donetsk 58
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3 Metalist Kharkiv 54

 

Much closer, and yet so far away. I think that Metalist is still in europe is what sinks the hope. Dynamo (in my biased opinion) will drop 4 points at most in the next 8 games. Same with Shakhtar. I can't see Metalist going perfect for the rest of the season. Not with Markevich pulling at least one questionable tactic in the next eight games, like he did the last time Metalist were playing in springtime.

 

Yeah but the thing is, in Ukraine we have to play Ukrainians, and in Europe we actually play our best players. So really, it's like two different teams anyway.

 

Dynamo's remaining games:
Ильичевец - Динамо К (Easy Win)
Динамо К - Черноморец (Easy Win)
Шахтер - Динамо К (Big Game prob a loss
Динамо К - Ворскла (Prob a win)
Волынь - Динамо К (Prob a win (but not a guarantee))
Заря - Динамо К (should win this)
Динамо К - Таврия (easy win)

Shakhtar's remaining games:
Волинь - Шахтар (easy win)
Ворскла - Шахтар (easy win)
Шахтар - Динамо (prob a win)
Зоря - Шахтар (easy win)
Шахтар - Таврія (easy win)
Металіст - Шахтар (tough game maybe a draw)
Шахтар - Олександрія (easy win)

Metalist's remaining games:
Арсенал - Металiст (hard win)
Металiст - Кривбас (prob a win)
Дніпро - Металiст (difficult game, maybe draw or narrow win)
Металiст - Іллiчiвець (easy win)
Чорноморець - Металiст (win)
Металiст - Шахтар (hard game)
Ворскла - Металiст (difficult as well might drop points if vorsla are gonna fight for europe in this game)



So in the end I mean we shouldn't see any changes. Shakhtar will prob beat Dynamo at Donbass, but they will most likely drop points in kharkiv imo. Dynamo has a pretty ez schedule till the end. If they get a draw at donbass and win the remaining of their ez games they should get a title. Metalist still has difficult games and EL so I doubt they will be able to pull something off. I mean they would have to be nearly perfect and have both dynamo and shakhtar with massive fck ups.

 

Who can forget Seleznyov getting awarded the pk v. Dynamo last year and on 2nd thought the ref reconsidered his decision and reversed the call lol. How was that ever going to be a pk for Dnipro this time? Anyone who thinks he took a bad touch shouldn't comment on small details like that ever, not your style.

Awesome to see a full stadium, seemed like a great atmosphere. The pitch is so nice, if only Dnipro had that in our home matches we might get better results more often. Our stadium is a disgrace, Meteor probably has a better lawn at the moment.

Juliano sucks so bad right now my god, kid lost all his confidence. So disappointing from him, still haunts me his dumb Devic decision on a 3 v. 1 with Fulham on the ropes...

 

Who knows... Shakhtar and Dynamo are known to lose points against unexpected opposition from time to time.