Rukh take on the visitors Chornomorets in the postponed round 14 match of Ukrainian Premier League. The match will be played on Wednesday, December 7th at Arena Lviv (Lviv).
Rukh will celebrate the anniversary next year, 20 years since its foundation. Over the years, it turned out, albeit not without scandals, to break into the UPL and gain a foothold in it. This is already the 3rd season at the highest level, and both previous ones were completed in a comfortable zone without the risk of relegation, in 10-11 places. Now there seems to be all the conditions for further progress. The coaching post is occupied by an experienced Belarusian specialist, Leonid Kuchuk. There are enough sensible, by the standards of the Premier League, players in the squad (Pankiv, Dovhyy, Fedorchuk, Mysyk), and there are also enough foreign players. 1 of them, Brazilian Talles, scored a third of his team's goals, 5. And Solomon-Otabor played for Birmingham in the Championship. But the results so far are worse than in the last championship: 3 wins and 13 points in 13 games played. Also, the place is 13th, but it can be improved by winning. The problem is that this has already failed three times in a row: a defeat and 2 draws.
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Chornomorets have a long and rather glorious history. The Black-and-Blues wrote one of the brightest pages just under the leadership of Roman Grigorchuk, when they played in the group stage of the Europa League for a couple of years in a row and even managed to get into the playoffs. So the return of this specialist to South Palmyra this year was perceived with great enthusiasm ... The more disappointing was the way the team started the new season. The team could not win until November, in the first 10 matches, and, of course, lay at the very bottom of the standings. Then, it seemed, things were finally getting better in Odessa. Minimal, 1-0, but they took victory over Minay, after 4 days they scored 2 unanswered goals against Lvov, finally leaving the last place ... But the successes were actually exhausted on this. With “Metalist”, which was blown away by the end of autumn, they still managed to grind out a goalless draw. But with Kryvbas, an unstable newcomer, which is also fighting for survival, they could not answer the opponent's goal. 2 wins and 10 points after 14 matches with a goal difference of 8-18 - yes, this was not expected in Odessa by the winter. Fortunately, there is “Lviv”, which has 1 point less. However, the worst 2 teams will be relegated directly.
In total, the clubs faced each other three times. In the First League 2019/2020, Rukh was stronger, which scored 4 points (2-0 at home, 2-2 away). But in the UPL a year ago, in November 2021, Chornomorets won the shootout at home. The visitors, however, bounced back from 0-3 with a penalty not scored, but the last, winning goal in the 89th minute was scored by Tlumak. It's time, it seems, to take revenge on Rukh. And just in the battle of outsiders, you need to squeeze the maximum out of a meeting with a competitor at home. We bet on the victory of the hosts at the Arena Lviv.
Prediction for the match: Rukh Lviv to win.
