"Zorya" - "Kryvbas". Preview

Kryvbas will play in Kiev against the dawn tomorrow, it will be the final match of the 3rd round of UPL. The last opponents met this spring in Kryvyi Rih and then red and white were stronger - 3-0 (Romanchuk, Mykytyshyn, Tverdokhlib).

Teams started a new season quite well, scoring two 7 points out of 12 possible. Kryvbas initially conceded Kolos y - 1:2, after which he played Metalist 1925 - 2: 0. As for the Luhansk, they were nominally at home with a world with LNZ - 0: 0, after which they overcame the hook - 2: 1.

Interestingly, Patrick van Leeuwen, a red and white manager, worked in the past the head coach of Zorya, so it will probably be a special confrontation for him.

Unfortunately, tomorrow will not be able to help Kryvbas in Kiev Portuguese defender Rafael Bandeira, who received the removal in the previous round and is serving disqualification.

Ukrainian Championship 2025 \ 2026. VBet League. 3 round.

Zorya Luhansk - Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih.

August 18, 2025, Monday. Kyiv. Stadium Dynamo named after Valerii Lobanovskyi. 18:00.

Judges: 

arbitrator: Klim Zabrod (Kyiv).

arbitrator assistants: Volodymyr Vysotsky (Zaporizhzhia), Mikhail Yukhimenko (Lutsk).

the fourth referee: Alexander Kalonov (Khmelnitsky).

arbitration observer: Alexander Cran (Kharkiv).

UAF delegate: Gennady Sushko (Luhansk A region).

arbitrator Vaa: Nikolai Balakin (Kyiv City region).

assistant Vaa: Victor Matyash (Donetsk).

Waa observer: Volodymyr Volodin (Kherson).

broadcast: UPL TV

the last match of the opponent in the championship:

Zorya - Kudrivka 2: 1 (1: 0). VBet League 2025 \ 2026. 30 round. 11.08.2025.

Goals and: Roman Salenko, 22 (1: 0). Artem Legostaev, 50 (1: 1). Anderson Jordan, 56 (2: 1). 

Zorya : 1. Oleksandr Saputin, 5. Andriy Yanich, 55. Anderson Jordan, 21. Yakov Bashich, 44. Igor Persututa, 10. Guninho (23. 77), 9. Artem Slesar, 28. Philip Budkivsky (K). 

Spare: 12. Nikita Turbaevsky, 31. Valery Kosivsky.

Goals Awning coach: Victor Skrypnyk.

Interesting facts:

-Kryvbas The current season played 1 match: +0 = 0-1 (1-2);

-Zorya in two nominally domestic matches won 4 Points: +1 = 1-0 (2-1);

- Two Luhansk football players in the past performed as part of FC Kryvbas: this is goalkeeper Oleh Surdov (U-17) and midfielder Timur Korablin.

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