The White and Blues traveled to Donetsk with three first choice players: defender Taras Mikhalik, Croatian attacking midfielder Niko Kranjcar and Nigerian striker Brown Ideye.

The absence of the prolific Ideye in the match of 16 League against Metalurh Donetsk day played a bad joke with Dynamo as the team managed by Olexiy Mykhaylychenko (the head coach Oleg Blokhin still can’t travel with the team in after recovery period) did not create many chances while their rivals in one of the sporadic actions managed to score the goal on the 71-minute (Dimitrov) that finally separated the sides.

Dynamo squad:

Shovkovskiy (c), Taiwo, Betao, Khacheridi, Danilo Silva, Vukojevic (Garmash, 80), Veloso, Gusev (Dudu, 76), Yarmolenko, Haruna, Ruben (Khlebas, 68).