"Obolon" - "Kryvbas". Preview

Kryvbas leaves for Kyiv today for tomorrow's match against Obolon. The first round match brought the Kryvrizh team a difficult minimal victory - 2:1 (Tverdokhlib-2 - Tesliuk).

In the previous round, the red-and-whites won a nominal home match against Zorya in Kovalivka - 3:1, and the Kyiv team defeated Rukh in a home match thanks to a precise strike by former Kryvbas forward Ustymenko, who will play against his former team on Saturday.

Kryvbas midfielder Shevchenko, who missed the match against Luhansk due to disqualification, is returning to official matches. Our team has been training in a one-time mode at the club base all week. As the players note, they are expecting a difficult match.

Interestingly, most of the meetings with Kyiv residents at the official level after 2020 ended without goals.

PURCHASE SEASON PASSES

Ukrainian Championship 2025\2026. VBET League. Round 19.

"Obolon" Kyiv - "Kryvbas" Kryvyi Rih.

March 7, 2026, Saturday. Kyiv. "Obolon Arena" Stadium. 15:30.

Referee appointments:

Head referee – Mykhailo Raida (Zakarpattia region).

Assistant referees – Yevhen Gashkov (Chernivtsi), Mykhailo Yukhymenko (Lutsk).

Fourth referee – Maksym Skrypnyk (Kyiv region).

VAR referee – Roman Blavatskyi (Lviv).

Assistant VAR referee – Oleksandr Korniyko (Mirhorod).

UAF match delegate – Ruslan Khobotov (Kyiv).

Referee observer – Vitaliy Godulyan (Odesa).

VAR observer – Viktor Derdo (Chornomorsk).

Broadcast: UPL TV.

Last match of the opponent in the championship:

Obolon - Ruh 1:0 (1:0). VBET League 2025\2026. 18th round. 01.03.2026.

Goal: Denys Ustymenko, 32.

Obolon: 31. Denys Marchenko, 5. Yevheniy Shevchenko, 50. Dmytro Semenov, 3. Vladyslav Pryimak, 28. Pavlo Polegenko, 24. Yehor Prokopenko (75. Maksym Tretyakov, 67), 4. Taras Moroz, 17. Ruslan Chernenko (20. Roman Volokhatyy, 69), 13. Ihor Medinsky (40. Ivan Nesterenko, 67), 10. Oleg Slobodyan (k), 9. Denys Ustimenko (90. Taras Lyakh, 67).

Substitutes: 1. Nazariy Fedorivskyi, 44. Oleksandr Zhovtenko, 8. Artem Kulakovskyi, 32. Andriy Lomnytskyi, 91. Rostyslav Lyashchuk, 55. Serhiy Sukhanov, 99. Denys Teslyuk, 22. Oleksandr Feshchenko.

Head coach: Oleksandr Antonenko.

Interesting facts:

- in total, 6 matches have been played between the teams in the championships of Ukraine in the recent history of our club: +4=2-0 (5-1) - advantage on the side of the red and whites;

- "Kryvbas" played eight times in the current season in away matches: +3=3-3 (13-16) - 15 points;

- Kryvyi Rih is still without victories in official matches for 5 rounds in a row: 2 draws, 3 failures.

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