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Team News: Shaktar Donetsk vs Vorskla
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Shaktar Donetsk boss
Avram Grant has decide to play a 4-2-2-2 with two centre midfielders and two wingers. He will be looking to dominate Vorskla and beat them at least by 3 goals. Many people were expecting a normal 4-4-2 but Avram shocked them by playing a different formation. Many people expect Chinedu Obasi and Robert Lewandowski to hit the net at least one time each later today.The Butovsky Memorial Vorskla Stadium is expected to be packed and thousands more will be watching it at home contently spurring on Shaktar and their new boss Avram Grant.
If Shaktar win and Dnipro draw against newly promoted Obolon they will go two points clear at the top but if Dnipro win and Shaktar drop any points Dnipro will go top. Many people expect Dnipro and Shaktar to win. Here is what Avram Grant had to say about this matter.
Avram Grant said:
I have alot of expectations today but i thrive under pressure and do believe i can take Shaktar to the pinnacle of European Football and can assure they dominate the Ukranian league and cup for years to come. bout our league situation Dnipro are a good side but we have the players and we have a good set of fans to support us throughout the season and i fully believe in my players being good enough to win the league easily.
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About Peter Crouch and Filipo Inzaghi. Fillipo Inzaghi was on a free and i was short of strikers so i brought him in. So when i got give the transfer money i brought Chinedu Obasi and Crouch so he is now backup. I was looking for strikers and i realised shaktar had good wide players and i could use Crouch as a target man.
PaulNixon1 added 46 Minutes and 49 Seconds later...
Avram Grants Rein at Shaktar started with a comfortable 2-0 victory agaisnt Vorskla.
Many people expected this sort of score but were relieved when the match was finsihed because Vorskla dominated the last 15 minutes in a push for a comeback. A crowd of 8324 watched on as Shaktar looked the more likely to score inside the first 10 minutes. With 14 minutes gone the Vorskla Crowd was silenced from a magnificent 25 yard volley from midfielder Hernanes.
Shaktar continued to push and with 18 minutes on the clock Hernanes played an excellent ball through to Chinedu Obasi who tucked the ball past S.Velychko from 5 yards. Many people expected Shaktar to score another before half time but they continued to push but couldnt find the net.
After Half time Vorskla looked the more likely to score but Rafale Carioca dribbled the ball from his own half and thundered a shot from 30 yards and it hit the crossbar. After that incident it started to become a end to end match but Vorskla looked more likely to score in the last 15 minutes. Shaktar held on to the 2-0 victory.
Shaktar fans had more to celebrate about on the way home when they heard that Dnipro had drawn 0-0 with Obolon which left them two points clear at the top.
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Vorskla: Velychko, Savin, Polyovyi, Lozinskyi, Karamushka (Bartulovic 73), Cheberyachko, Krasnopyorov (c), Tkachenko, Ivanov, Politylo (Pshenychnykh 61), Kucherenko (Tymchenko 61).
Shaktar: Pyatov, Srna, Benitez, Chygrynskyi, Shevchuk, Zyranov, Carioca, Hernanes, Kravchenko, Lewandowski, Obasi.
Goals: Hernanes 14, Obasi 18.
BBC Sport Man of the Match: Shaktar Donetsks Hernanes.
