Football / Premier League
A not-so-classic ending
Shakhtar and Dynamo drew 0–0 in Lviv, a result both coaches were happy with.
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Selected stories from the print edition of Sport Arena.
Opinion
Freeze-frame
Eduard Kyseliov on the derby in Lviv and how Ukraine’s title race has changed.
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One football family
Ukraine’s amputee football team was given a send-off in Lviv before its World Cup debut in Mexico.
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A narrow but assured win
Ukraine beat Slovakia in Bratislava in World Cup qualifying.
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Fewer mistakes, three points
LNZ beat Zorya 2–1, with Papa Ndiaga Yade scoring both goals for the Cherkasy club.
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If you live with wolves...
Polissia beat Veres 2–0 to move within a point of Shakhtar.
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Chornomorets oversleep, Lavuta stands firm
Smyrnyi’s goal and debutant Kyrylo Lavuta’s saves earned Kudrivka a 1–0 win.
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Whose shoe is it, anyway?
Eduard Kyseliov on the clichés of football writing and commentary.
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The bitter taste of a bad déjà vu
The 0–1 curse goes on: Shakhtar lost a second match in a row, and against Sporting that scoreline has become a fatal constant.
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A record stained red
One half in Kryvyi Rih: an assist, a record 125th goal and a red card.
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Truncated chaos
Eduard Kyseliov on the curtailed round 11 and its three central figures.
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United by the result: two routes, one road
By different routes, Serhii Zhurba’s HIT Kyiv and Denys Ovsiannikov’s Athletic of Dnipro both came through the main round of the Futsal Champions League.
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Four days without luggage and a shot at a godfather
The season is about to start, but there is still no clarity in the Ukraine team, and no place for Yuliia Dzhyma.
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A drawbridge in Lviv
On 20 May Dynamo won the Ukrainian Cup at Arena Lviv; on 27 October they lost it in the same stadium, beaten 3–0 by Shakhtar.
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Sprint and marathon
Eduard Kyseliov on the first third of the league season.
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From Matthews to Kane
Football’s most prestigious individual award has returned to the game’s founders: the 2026 Ballon d’Or went to Bayern’s 33-year-old England striker Harry Kane.
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Serhii Babynets is on fire
Odeshchyna, a club that turned just one year old on 24 September, lead the league after six rounds.
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One step from a first title
Mercedes driver Andrea Kimi Antonelli needs just two more points to become champion.
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A winning hat-trick with ten men
How do you concede three goals to a side that played the whole match with ten men? Polissia beat Dynamo 3–1, with Ihor Krasnopir scoring a hat-trick while his team were a man down.
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A unique anomaly
Eduard Kyseliov on Dynamo’s defeat in Zhytomyr and Ihor Krasnopir’s hat-trick with ten men.
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Time to crack the whip?
Champions Dnipro suffered their first defeat, while nomadic Zaporizhzhia went top of the table.
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Flight to Rouen cancelled
A late defeat to Mogo of Riga kept Oleh Shafarenko’s Sokil out of the second round of the Continental Cup.
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Solid foundations laid
Ukraine began their qualifying campaign for the 2028 Futsal World Cup with nine goals against Estonia.
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