FC Dynamo Kyiv started the Europa League group stage with home game against Malmö FF.
Before this match the White-Blues had winless streak including six games. This made players have a serious man-to-man conversation.
Comparing with the game against FC Desna Chernihiv, our coach made six substitutions in the starting lineup.
At first Dynamo acted quite carefully and even let visitors approach our goal.
After the break, the White-Blues got more aggressive and started creating chances. Buialskyi didn’t score in one-on-one situation, Shabanov attempted with a header. There were shots by Rodrigues, Sydorchuk, Tsyhankov…
Finally, 84 minutes into the game Shepelev created a great chance for Buialskyi and this time Vitaliy hit the target.
Europa League, group B, matchday 1
FC Dynamo Kyiv – Malmö FF – 1:0 (0:0)
19.09.2019. Kyiv, NSC Olimpiyskyi, 22 321 spectators
Dynamo: Boiko, Kedziora, Shabanov, Kadar, Mykolenko, Sydorchuk, Buialskyi, Shepelev, Tsyhankov (Karavayev, 90), Verbic, Rodrigues (Besedin, 73).
Malmö: Dahlin, Safari, Rieks, Lewicki, Bachirou, Traustason (Gall, 86), Rosenberg, Christiansen (Antonsson, 73), Beijmo (Larsson, 57), Bengtsson, Nielsen.
Goal: Buialskyi (84).
Booked: Verbic (51) – Christiansen (63).
Malmö FF (Sweden)
Founded: 24.02.1910
Colors: white, blue
Home ground: Swedbank, 24 000 spectators
President: Anders Pålsson
Head coach: Uwe Rösler
Domestic league position last season: 3rd
Lineup average age: 28,62* years
Lineup total value: 19,7* million euro
Fixtures:
19.09.2019. Dynamo – Malmö
28.11.2019. Malmö – Dynamo
Malmö FF are more than hundred years old. Together with IFK Göteborg and AIK Fotboll they form the “Great thee” of Swedish football. Malmö have already won the domestic league 20 times which is the best result in the country. Last time they became champions in 2017. Besides, Malmö have won the national cup 14 times.
Malmö major achievement on European arena is 1978/79 European Champions’ Cup final. That season Swedish side outplayed Dynamo in the second round of the competition (0:0, 0:2).
In the final Malmö faced Nottingham Forest FC and lost by one goal to nil.
Malmö iconic trainee is famous Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He featured for Malmö is 1999-2001 and scored 16 goals after which moved to AFC Ajax.
At the moment, Malmö are third in domestic league table after 23 matchdays.
Head coach – Uwe Rösler – German specialist, who played for Manchester City FC in 1990s (64 goals in 176 matches). He started his coaching career in Norwegian side Lillestrom SK. In 2011-2018 he worked for different English clubs after which joined Malmö. Last season he took the team to the Europa League round of 32, where they lost against Chelsea FC.
Honors:
Domestic league: 23 titles
National cup: 14
