July 8, 2020, 9:30 p.m. Kharkiv, USC Metalist. Game without spectators. +17 degrees.
The final of the Cup of Ukraine of the 2019/2020 season
Dynamo (Kyiv) - Vorskla (Poltava) 1: 1 (on penalties 8: 7)
Goals: Verbich (29) - Stepaniuk (10)
Dynamo: Bushchan, Kendzora, Sirota, Shabanov, Mykolenko, Sidorchuk - Tsitaishvili (Tsygankov, 60), Buyalsky (Shaparenko, 99), Shepelev (Andrievsky, 117), De Pena, Verbich.
Vorskla: Riznyk, Perduta, Chesnakov, Ndiaye, Sapay, Sklyar (Shekhich, 95), Putzlin, Yakubu (Opanasenko, 73), Kulach (Luizao, 76), Kane, Stepanyuk (Baenko, 114).
Warnings: Sirota, Shabanov, Buyalsky, Verbich - Sklyar, Perduta
After a relatively easy reconnaissance and isolated hints that the most important cup game of the season will not be deprived of the attacking spectacle, Poltava began to methodically shake the flanks of Kiev. One of such attacks ended with the fact that in the 11th minute Ruslan Stepaniuk, using Kane's serve, kicked Bushchan's goal from close range - the score was opened!
In the 16th minute, Riznyk incredibly pulled the Orphan's shot under the crossbar after a corner kick - just bravo, Dmitry! After 20 minutes, Bushchana Sklyar checked the vigilance of Bushchan with an unexpected long-range shot - there was a chance.
And another save from Riznyk: now in close combat, when he lost his opponent Yakub, allowing Verbich to break through almost close. The Slovene reached his goal in a few minutes. Having received the ball in the penalty area, Dynamo turned around and hit the Poltava "frame" - 1: 1.
Danger was also dangerous after coming out in the center of the goal of the same Verbich in the 39th minute of the game. The butcher parried the ball on the corner.
The beginning of the second half was marked by Kane's activity. In particular, in the 51st minute, taking the ball and going to the goal, Ibrahim gave a great pass to Kulach, who came out alone with the goalkeeper, and Vlad did not reach the ball a bit.
In the 55th minute, Tsitaishvili suddenly caught the ball with a powerful shot from outside the penalty area - fortunately, past the right post. Vorskla responded with a lightning strike by Stepaniuk, who passed to Kulach - Bushchan was one second ahead of the authorities, coming out of the goal. In the 62nd minute, after Shepelev burst into the penalty area, already lying on the lawn, Riznyk kicked the ball. For some reason, the referee of the game was silent when Putzlin tried to stop Dynamo from entering the goal. In the 70th minute, two Dynamo players went offside, so the goal, which Kyiv literally scored in the goal of the "white-green", was canceled even without watching VAR.
Verbich rushes to the goal on the 84th - Butcher fixes the ball in his hands.
In the last minute of the game, Opanasenko almost drove the ball into the far corner.
It came to the game in two extra times. In the 95th minute, the massive attack of Vorskla should have ended with a goal, but Perduta and Shehich alternately failed to break through the wall from the defenders of "Dynamo" in front of the goal.
In the 108th minute, Shehich was already in the goal: he turned around, even made an attempt to break through - but still a position out of the game.
It all came down to a long football lottery, where Dynamo celebrated the victory with a score of 8: 7.