The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette
Match19 Sep 2027
Dynamo Kyiv do the business in Europe
2‑0. Continental football is where a club finds out what it actually is, and Dynamo Kyiv came through the finding-out well against NK Maribor.
Market20 Sep 2027
Daniil Yurchenko has one foot out of the door
Terms are settled between the clubs and the rest is paperwork and a photograph. Around Dynamo Kyiv they have already started talking about him in the past tense.
Squad20 Sep 2027
A falling-out at Dynamo Kyiv
Christos Zafeiris and a teammate went at it, and not about football. Training grounds are small places and a long season makes them smaller.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Maksym Roienko is a better footballer than he was
Not a run of form — an actual step up, held for months. At 19 he is doing things at this level he could not do at the start of the season, and the coaching staff will tell you exactly which of them.
Match18 Sep 2027
Leandro Andrade the difference as Dynamo Kyiv beat Karpaty
Ask anyone on the way out what separated the sides and you will get one name: Leandro Andrade. 1‑0 against Karpaty, and the applause at the whistle was mostly his.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Leandro Andrade in the eights
A performance of 8.40 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
A masterclass from Shola Ogundana
Marked 8.37 — the sort of number a correspondent writes down twice to be sure. Everything he tried came off, and what he did not try was not worth trying.
Player ratings20 Sep 2027
Volodymyr Brazhko in the eights
A performance of 8.09 does not come along often, and when it does the rest of the team becomes scenery. He was magnificent.
Squad20 Sep 2027
Defences have started doubling up on Leandro Andrade
7 goals and a season average of 7.22 will do that. The space he used to find has gone; he keeps scoring anyway, which is the mark of the real thing.
In brief
- Squad Yevhen Pidlepenets falls out with a teammate over standards
- The dugout Andrii Iarmolenko left out for the big one
- The dugout A satisfied Kostiantyn Karavayev