On Sunday, October 26, as part of the Ukrainian Premier League championship for Premier League teams, the final fixtures of the 10th round were played. The day’s marquee match took place at Arena Lviv, where Shakhtar Donetsk hammered Kudrivka from the Chernihiv region 4-0.
Kauan Elias scored for Shakhtar in the 7th and 51st minutes, Ocheretko in the 32nd, and Hlushchenko in the 87th. After this victory, the team returned to first place in the standings.
At 18:00, Kyiv’s Dynamo will host Kryvbas Kryvyi Rih at the capital’s Valeriy Lobanovskyi Stadium.
Results of the round’s previous fixtures:
Oleksandriya – Epitsentr (Kamianets-Podilskyi) 0:1
Veres (Rivne) – Zorya (Luhansk) 0:0
Metalist 1925 (Kharkiv) – LNZ (Cherkasy) 0:1
Karpaty (Lviv) – Rukh (Lviv) 0:0
Obolon (Kyiv) – Polissia 0:4
Poltava – Kolos (Kovalivka) 2:2
Standings after the matches: Shakhtar – 21 points, LNZ – 20, Polissia – 19, Kryvbas – 19, Dynamo – 17, Metalist 1925 – 16, Kolos – 15, Zorya – 13, Obolon – 13, Karpaty – 12, Kudrivka – 11, Veres – 10, Epitsentr – 9, Oleksandriya – 8, Rukh – 7, Poltava – 5.
Shakhtar’s Position and the League Dynamics
The victory over Kudrivka allows the team to reclaim the top of the table and strengthen its position in the title race, edging ahead of its main rivals.
