Vice-champion of Ukraine Shakhtar today can reach the knockout stages of the Europa League.
Three wins in three matches, zero goals conceded – Shakhtar’s start in the group stage of the Europa League can be called flawless. The last step to the playoffs, the team, Paulo Fonseca will try to do in Ghent, where the club this season, have never lost points.
The result of the first match (5:0) fully reflects the strength of the Gent in Lviv the Belgians enough patarzali defense, “miner”, but failed to convert our chances and the defense made plenty of mistakes with catastrophic consequences.
In Belgium Shakhtar came without a single player from the starting lineup – Victor Kovalenko was injured in the first match with “Gent” and missed the last three matches of Shakhtar. At the heart of the Ukrainian likely to replace Dentinho, who managed to progress under the leadership of Fonseca.
The Belgians to the rematch with Shakhtar up to the optimum composition, but amid a series of failures after failures from “the Glen” and “Mechelen”, “Ghent” in the domestic arena dropped to sixth place.
Preliminary formulations:
Ghent: Yannick Thoelen – Gershon, Mitrovic Foket – Sayef, No, van der Bruggen, Asare – Simon, Coulibaly, miličević.
Shakhtar: Pyatov – Srna, Kucher, Rakitskiy, Ismaily, Stepanenko, Fred, Marlos, Dentinho, Bernard, Ferreyra.
Stream: TRK “Ukraine”, “Football 2”, 22:05
Prediction: 1:2
