Alaa Ghram

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The Shakhtar Post

9 Nov 2026
From our football correspondent Upbeat

Match

Shakhtar silence Dynamo Kyiv

A derby is never about the football alone, but the football helped: 1‑0, and the away end emptied early. Bragging rights renewed for another season.

Match

A European night to remember for Shakhtar

1‑1 against Austria Wien, under lights, against people who do not speak the same language as the crowd. These are the evenings a club measures its decade in, and there are never as many of them as anybody expects.

Match

Cup progress for Shakhtar

A 3‑0 win over Nyva, a place in the next round, and the quiet arithmetic every supporter does on the walk home: how many more until a final?

Player ratings

What a way to start for Makar Tverdokhlib — 8.54

1 on the scoresheet on his first appearance and a mark of 8.54 beside it. Most debuts are got through; this one was enjoyed, by him and by everybody watching it.

Match

The view from the top for Shakhtar

38 points, and the rest of the division looking up. Every side that finishes first spends the season pretending it is not thinking about it, and this one has started pretending.

Player ratings

A brace, and Newertton takes the afternoon — 8.41

There is a particular kind of quiet from an away end watching one man score twice. Newertton provided it, and the 8.41 beside his name is if anything generous to everybody else.

Player ratings

A derby belongs to Dmytro Kryskiv

Beat anybody else and it is three points. Beat them and it is a story a city tells for a decade. Shakhtar have their man.

Squad

A falling-out at Shakhtar

Pedrinho and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.

Market

Oleh Ocheretko raises the bar for Shakhtar

“I want to be playing for trophies while my legs still let me.” Nothing in that sentence is a transfer request, and nobody at Shakhtar heard it as anything else.

In brief