Missing Trip #8 - Part 1 - Ukraine March 2019 - Olimpik Donetsk 1 Dynamo Kyiv 2
In March 2019 I went to Ukraine and managed to reacquaint myself with some of the places that I used to hang out when I started this blog. The first match that I managed to get to was a game between Olimpik Donetsk and Dynamo Kyiv. Although the match was at the stadium named after Lobonovskiy where Dynamo played their home games before the renovation of Olympyskiy this was technically a home game for the 'Donetsk team'. Like a lot of teams from the east of the country including European competitors Shakhtar Donetsk and Zorya Luhansk, they are having to play their home games out of their city as Europe's forgotten war continues to this day. As I write this, the long-term future of Olimpik looks far from certain as rumours of the team basically being shipped off to compete in Odesa under the Chornomorets name continue to raise their heads again. Anyway, back to this match, it wasn't too cold, but the match was far from exciting to tell the truth. Dynamo never looked conv...