The Ukrainian Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk in the final of this year’s Europa League competition will play in Warsaw with the Spanish Sevilla. Ticket for the show at the National Stadium was won with Napoli, which waited all football fans in Ukraine.
favored by UEFA?
You can not forget, however, that win came in controversial circumstances.
The first meeting of these teams, played in Naples, ended in a draw 1: 1. Guests scored equalizer in the very end of the match, and TV replays showed that Yevhen Selezniow, who scored, was on a clear offside. The situation angers Italian authorities Club, which accused UEFA that it favors the defending champions – the team Sevilla – and he wants to in the final she faced just with the Ukrainians.
According to the president Napoli, Aurelio De Laurentiis, the match against Dnipro will be for the Spaniards easier task than the start of his team. However, given what the club from Dnepropetrovsk has made this season, Sevilla could not be sure of winning.
The Ukrainians showed in the Europa League great character. The whole season had to play nearly 500 kilometers away from their stadium, their meetings by playing in Kyiv. The team is based on wychowankach, but about the strength of the team represent the Ukrainians. Although Dnipro does not present technical finesse and ball, we were able to successfully compete with the above-listed rivals. Among others dismissed empty handed Olympiakos, Ajax and Club Brugge. On Thursday, they fell victim to Napoli.
Before the start of the tournament probably no one would put the team among the favorites for the Europa League, taking into account the fact that among the teams who fought for the cup, there were really strong teams – Liverpool, Inter, Zenit, Roma and Tottenham.
The great advantage of Dnipro is fine defensive plays, which loses little goals and rarely allows rivals to investigate the favorable situation. Players definitely do not dress too in the means – not afraid to foul, when the situation demands. They are at the forefront of two very glorious statistics – the most faulujących and receiving cards bands.
The fact that in reaching the finals helped them wrong decision of the judge, however, does not rule out in any way the great effort that the whole team has done in previous rounds, breaking through the successive opponents.
All Ukraine supported the Dnipro
The Thursday match held in Kiev in extremely difficult conditions. All the time heavy rain was falling, but this did not prevent fans to cheer their players. Importantly, they sat in the stands not only those who every day are fans of Dnipro and drove hundreds of kilometers to witness the historic event. A team from Dnepropetrovsk cheered the whole Ukraine, for months mired in conflict.
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All the players and people associated with the club stressed the important role played by fans in Kiev and thanked them for their support. Dnipra coach Myron Markevych pointed out that the players felt the overwhelming support stands. He added that this victory is needed not only to residents of Dnipropetrovsk, but also throughout Ukraine.
– This victory was needed for ordinary people. We live in difficult times, we played for people living in war-torn regions, particularly for boys fighting with the terrorists in the east. Every day, our people are dying – he added.
The owner of the Dnipro is Ihor Kolomoyskyi. Oligarch, media magnate and co-owner of the second largest bank in Ukraine has long been one of the richest Ukrainians, his fortune is estimated at about $ 3 billion. From March 2, 2014 to March 24, 2015 was governor of Dnipropetrovsk. It is largely thanks to him managed to save the circuit before the Russian separatism. The first involved in the creation of volunteer battalions, which financed out of pocket. Subsequently, however, he used them when he began the conflict with the state of control over Ukrnafta, which aroused great controversy and anger the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko.
He and his money are behind the success Dnipro in recent years. Also for the club he built a stadium for 31,000 spectators, which cost nearly 45 million euros. In total, the team has put hundreds of millions, dreaming about it, to the club well presented itself in Europe. Large transfers, however, did not bring the expected results. In recent years, Kołomojski changed the strategy and put his team on wychowankach. The results turned out to be great.
What are the chances of the cup?
After the defeat of Dnipro Napoli coach Rafael Benitez said that it is rare that his ward is coming to play in such a stadium, with so much pressure and having the audience on their shoulders the responsibility. Team actually disintegrated after the first goal scored in the Ukrainians.
The players did not let the council to lift this weight, and Ukraine each other in difficult moments can enjoy the success of one of his teams.
The Europa League Final will be held on May 27 at the National Stadium. Favorite in this game is Sevilla, much more experienced team and having in its ranks players for whom the Spanish team soon may be too small. Dnipro showed, however, that is not afraid to compete with the theoretically stronger teams.
Playing in a band from Andalusia Grzegorz Krychowiak will have to once again leave the pitch lot of heart and health in duels on the pitch of the National Stadium.
Paul Słójkowski, PolskieRadio.pl
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