Shakhtar — Best pictures!

Shakhtar Donetsk’s Dmytro Chegrinskiy, the leader in our FTBL rating of best defenders in the Ukrainian league, could lose his top spot in today’s match against Dynamo Kyiv to his teammate Oleksandr Kucher. The gap between the two amounts to just 4 rating

The excitement surrrounding the All-Ukrainian UEFA Cup semi-final between Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk is further fuelled by the battle for leadership in our FTBL Top 23 for the Ukrainian championship. Players from the two sides are the undisputable

Marco Devic (pictured left), the Metalist Kharkiv midfielder, tops the rating in the Ukrainian league with 77.65 points. He grabbed the lead after Metalist’s 1:0 win over Vorska Poltava in which Devic scored the only goal.

Two Ukrainian sides--Dynamo Kyiv and Shakhtar Donetsk--will clash in one of this year’s UEFA Cup semi-finals after they brushed aside French clubs Paris Saint-Germain (3:0) and Marseille (2:1), respectively.

CSKA Moscow lost 0:2 at home to Shakhtar Donetsk in the second leg of its UEFA Cup 1/8 finals and has exited the competition. CSKA displayed extreme anxiety during the entire game, and the “miners” from Donetsk knew how to use the situation to their advantage.