April Goal Showers


Saturday started off as the perfect day for football, the sun was shining, there was a light breeze in the air and it seemed as if Spring had arrived in Kyiv. That was up until 2 minutes before kick off when it started to rain, which developed into a full scale storm by half time.


Luckily it was yet another excellent game with goals a plenty. The first goal came on 3 minutes for Metalurh from Fernandes, but that was soon cancelled out on 10 minutes when Bangoura scored yet another goal. Strangely, not long after he was substituted, as was the other forward Kravets. Bangoura gave his shirt to some kid in the crowd, which was a pretty good present.


There has been a debate on the Dynamo site recently about who should play up front for Dynamo, and it seems in this game Semin decided to try all his options out, as Bangoura and Kravets were replaced by the promising youngster Aliev and the once promising youngster, but usually pedestrian, Artem Milevskiy and later in the game Shatskih was also introduced.


However, it was Metalurh who again took the lead with a goal by ex- Chornomorets man and goal scorer of the year, Kosyryn. So at half time as the sky opened up it was Metalurh who led 2-1.


Dynamo started the second half the more lively and equalised with a goal from Aliev. In fact they also hit the post twice and could have taken the lead soon after, especially as Metalurh were soon down to 10 men when Tkachenko was sent off in the 50th minute for a professional foul straight after the centre had been taken after Aliev's goal. On 57 minutes they made the pressure and their advantage count, as Milevskiy put Dynamo 3-2 up with a canon ball shot that was remeniscent of the promise he had shown as a teenager.


Things didn't stay this way for long though, as Kosyryn went up the other end and scored his 2nd and Metalurh's 3rd. Surprisingly his goal celebration which consisted of giving the Dynamo fans the finger didn't earn him a caution.


For the last half hour Dynamo had several chances with Ghione coming close to scoring and Shatskih also having a good chance saved shortly after he was introduced on 80 minutes. Unfortunately for them, their keeper wasn't as dodgy as Shovkovskiy in the Dynamo net, so they quite literally weathered the storm, and even looked capable of grabbing a winner themselves on the counter attack.


In the end the game finished 3-3, so for the second week in a row a game between a Kyiv team and a Donetsk team served up 6 goals.
The photo shows an early shot by Dynamo from a corner, which just missed

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