“Dynamo” beat “Shakhtar” in the match for the Super Cup of Ukraine-2016

The match for the Super Cup of Ukraine that was founded in 2004 acts as the grand-opening for every new football competition season in Ukraine took place in Odessa at the Chornomorets Stadium for a seventh time. Dynamo, the current winner of the championship, and Shakhtar, the owner of the Ukrainian Cup, for the ninth time have fought for the trophy. The game between two Ukrainian football grandees was not particularly rich in events and gave two goals in four match halves.
The remarkable fact is that Domagoj Vida, the Dynamo Kyiv defender, really helps Sergei Rebrov in the matches against Shakhtar Donetsk. First goal of the Croatian legionary brought the victory for the “Dynamo” and his head coach in the Ukrainian Cup in 2014. The fall of the same year Vida scored his winning goal against the Miners during the national championship. Moreover, during the recent match for the Super Cup of Ukraine in the remaining ten minutes Vida helped Dynamo to win. Dynamo have not scored Denis Garmash under a penalty shoot-out. And two Miners – Evgeniy Seleznev, who joined the team after 4-years international career, and Bernard, with whom was signed a deal for a reported €25 million.
Among other things, it was the first official match for new Shakhtar head coach Paulo Fonseca. According to football players, a Portuguese specialist give a lot of attention to the game of defense and midfield. Nevertheless, it is difficult to judge be the first match which direction will choose Shakhtar after Mircea Lucescu coaching. In any case, there are many questions on a reason why it is an international coach, and not a Ukrainian specialist, became the head coach of Donetsk team in spite of the fact that he lose the quarterfinal game in the European League against Shakhtar with the score 1:6 during his work with SC Braga. The Donetsk football club leaders decided to turn a blind eye for such pity. In the same time, our young specialist Valeriy Kriventsov, who helped 19-year-old “Shakhtar” players reach the final of the Junior Champions League, now is working in the “orange and black” youth team. Perhaps, in time, a situation will change, but now we see that in Shakhtar one coach-legionary changed another one after his 12 years managing.
After the match has ended, Paulo Fonseca congratulated Dynamo Kyiv with the victory and underlined the good work of referees’ team headed by Anatoliy Abdula from the positive side: The sponsors have done a lot. It was a real football holiday. In my opinion, our team has created many chances to score than Dynamo. Our opponent has shown any dangerous attack at our gates, and the goal was scored only from the corner. As a result of the game, we had a failure in a penalty shoot-out. According to the way we had shown, we could have a good season. Of course, I would like to win the Super Bowl. I am satisfied by our game. You could perfectly see what I expect from the team. We always wanted to dominate during the game and hold the defense far away from our gates. I cannot tell you too much. You will see everything by yourselves.
The Dynamo head coach Sergey Rebrov began with the congratulation of the team fans: I think, the game was close, and we won in the series of penalties. Dynamo as well as Shakhtar is not completely ready for a football season. This game against Shakhtar is very important for us as well as a match in the Champions League.
What counts most is our desire to win and achieve a result. I see that our players want to work and go forward. In the break we had replaced Dragovich due to his injure, he felt discomfort in the muscle before the game started. We do not have any complaints against him. As for a situation with Gusev, I can say that Oleg also was seriously injured. Now he is recovering and I hope that he will help the team as soon as possible.