"Kryvbas" - "Chornomorets". Preview

Kryvbas will play the first match of the new UPL season at home against Chornomorets. The rivals met twice in the last championship, and then both matches remained for the red and white: 1:0 – at home, 2:1 – away.

In the off-season, six new players joined Kryvbas, while Chornomorets had significantly more. In addition, the head coach of Odessa has changed. Babich, who already worked with the "sailors" in 2014-2017, returned to the club from Bulgaria. It should be noted that Babich also coached "Kryvbas" for six months, still in the First League, before the full-scale invasion of Russia into Ukraine.

"Kryvbas" played seven sparring matches at the summer camp, conceding only once: "Ingulets" Petrove - 3:1, "Dynamo" Bucharest, Romania - 2:0, "Young Boys" Bern, Switzerland - 2:2, "Sabah" Baku, Azerbaijan - 2:2, "Dynamo" Zagreb, Croatia - 2:0, "Al-Batai" Sharjah, UAE - 1:1, "Rizespor" Rize, Turkey - 3:4.

As for Chornomorets, the Odessans played five control matches: "Niva" Vinnytsia - 2:2, "Real Farma" Odesa - 3:3, "Kolos" Kovalivka - 1:3, "Mariupol" - 2:1, "Alexandria" - 0:2.

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Championship of Ukraine 2024/2025. VBET League. 1 round.

"Kryvbas" Kryvyi Rih - "Chornomorets" Odesa.

August 3, 2024, Saturday.Kryvyi Rih "Girnyk" stadium. 18:00.

Referee appointments: 

Referee:Maksym Kozyryatskyi (Zaporizhia).

Referee assistants:Viktor Nyzhnyk (Vinnytsia), Valentin Kutsev (Kyiv region).

The fourth referee:Klim Zabroda (Sumy).

Arbitration observer:Oleksandr Kran (Kharkiv).

UAF delegate:Mykhailo Kalita (Mykolaiv).

Referee of the UAA: Ihor Paschal (Kherson).

VAA Assistant: Dmytro Zaporozhenko (Zaporizhia).

VAA observer:Oleg Zubarev (Slovyansk).

Broadcast:UPL TV.

The opponent's last match in the championship:

"Chornomorets" - "Dnipro-1» 0:2(0:1). VBET League 2023\2024. 30 round 05/25/2024.

Goals:Oleg Ocheretko, 45+1 (0:1). Maxim Tretyakov, 73 (0:2).

"Chernomorets»:1. Varakuta, 3. Yermakov, 8. Shporn, 9. Putria (k), 11. Boychuk, 20. Avaghimyan (7. O. Kuzyk, 66), 39. Badibanga, 45. Bragaru, 27. Vasiliev, 77. Stogrin, 79. Salyuk.

Spares:31. Bilyk, 71. Vichniy, 5. Huchek, 12. Shapoval, 17. Holub, 18. Alvarenga, 22. Arsich, 23. Ze Gomez, 32. Prysiazhnyuk, 37. Ogirya, 70. Iede.

Head coach:Roman Hryhorchuk.

Interesting facts:

- "Kryvbas" is one of the leaders in performances at home in the last UPL season:+9=3-3 (25-14) - 30 points;

- "Chernomorets" scored 10 points in 15 matches this season:+3=1-11 (17-27)and this is one of the worst indicators in the UPL;

- a total of 38 matches were held in the championships of Ukraine between the rivals:+14=9-16 (42-53)- the advantage is still on the side of the Odessans.

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