On July 3 FC Dynamo Kyiv played the second sparring of the training camp in Austria – against Legia Warsaw.
Kyivans’ coaching staff made a lot of substitutions in the starting lineup comparing with the previous game.
Dynamo defender Yevhen Makarenko has finally recovered from serious injury. Thus he took the field in this friendly. Injuries of Mykola Moroziuk and Junior Moraes have turn out to be not serious, so they also took part in this game.
Considering it was the second match for Serhiy Rebrov’s men within two days, it was hardly possible to expect them to demonstrate impressive speed. Legia started the game more actively.
34 minutes into the match Miguel took a free kick, but goalkeeper parried his shot from 20-meter distance.
After the break Dynamo used totally different squad. Our team attacked more than Polish side. Legia keeper barely cleared the ball after the shot from Harmash. Sydorchuk tried to score from distance, but goalkeeper saved his team again.
Legia had only once chance after the break, but Shovkovskyi demonstrated incredible reaction and cleared the header.
2nd sparring of Austrian training camp
03.07.2015. Schwaz (Austria). Silberstadt Arena. 200 spectators
FC Dynamo Kyiv – FC Legia Warsaw – 0:0
Dynamo (1st half): Rybka, Danilo Silva, Makarenko, Yahodynskis, Husiev (c), Miguel, Belhanda, Miakushko, Buialskyi, Rybalka, Kravets.
Dynamo (2nd half): Shovkovskyi (c), Danilo Silva (Yahodynskis, 69), Dragovic, Burda, Antunes, Harmash, Sydorchuk, Moroziuk, Petrovic, Yarmolenko, Moraes.
Legia (starting lineup): Kuciak, Broz, Rzeźniczak (c), Pazdan, Brzyski, Guilherme, Furman, Jodlowiec, Kucharczyk, Maslowski, Nikolic.
Booked: Pazdan (33), Kalinkowski (88)
Founded: March of 1916
Achievements: champions of Poland (10 times), Polish Cup winners (17 times, record), Polish Super Cup winners (4 times), Polish League Cup winners (once), 1970 Champions’ Cup semifinalists, 1991 Cup Winners’ Cup semifinalists.
Last season: 2nd place in Polish Ekstraklasa (21 wins, 7 draws, 9 defeats, 64 goals scored, 33 goals conceded).
Matches against 2014/15 Ekstraklasa laureates: Lech Poznan 2:2, 1:2, 1:2,Jagiellonia Białystok 1:3, 3:0, 1:0.
Goalkeeper #1 in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Dušan Kuciak (Slovakia)
Best striker in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Orlando Sa (Portugal, 13 goals)
Best assistant in 2014/15 Ekstraklasa: Tomasz Brzyski (10 assists)
Most experienced player: Marek Saganowski (36 years, forward)
Leading players: Dušan Kuciak (Slovakia, goalkeeper), Jakub Rzeźniczak (centre back), Tomasz Jodłowiec (supporting midfielder), Ivica Vrdoljak (Croatia, supporting midfielder), Michał Żyro (winger), Michał Kucharczyk (attacking midfielder), Ondrej Duda (Slovakia, attacking midfielder), Marek Saganowski (forward).
President: Boguslaw Lesnodorski (since December of 2012).
Head coach: Henning Berg (Norway, since December of 2013).
Interesting peculiarity: Legia won 2014/15 domestic league regular part. Still according to Ekstraklasa regulations eight best teams must define laureates playing one more round. That’s where Legia let Lech Poznan grab the title.
Did you know that… Last season Legia won the Europa League group confidently. They defeated FC Metalist Kharkiv twice (1:0 and 2:1). In the round of 32 they were outplayed by Ajax (0:1 and 0:3). Before the last season Polish side faced Ukrainian clubs in euro cups twice: in 1986/1987 UEFA Cup first round they defeated FC Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk (0:0 and 1:0) and in 2006/2007 Champions League third qualifying round they lost against FC Shakhtar Donetsk (0:1 and 2:3).
