Shakhtar — Best pictures!

Shakhtar Donetsk’s Brazilian Luiz Adriano was more likely than not to drop in the FTBL ranking after the Ukrainian league game against Tavriya Simferopol; he went in with an almost forbidding plank of more than 31 rating points to beat in the FTBL system,

Dynamo Kyiv forward Artem Milevskiy scored twice to help his side defeat bitter rivals Shakhtar Donetsk in Ukrainian league action, putting an end to a run of five games without a goal.

Shakhtar Donetsk’s Ukraine international Aleksandr Kucher will go into the first game of the World Cup 2010 playoffs against Greece as Ukraine’s best player in the FTBL ranking, irrespective of position. The fact that he ranks ahead of even strikers is

Shakhtar Donetsk goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov has achieved the quasi-impossible: his FTBL rating is as close as ever to the 100-point mark despite the fact that he plays in a Cat 2 league. For perspective, remember that only 6 goalkeepers have ratings beyond

Shakhtar Donetsk’s Brazilian Luiz Adriano was the big winner in last night’s 4:0 trashing of French side Toulouse in the Europa League, earning 26.52 rating points in the FTBL system and taking the 5th spot in our Top 23 of Brazilian strikers.