The Dynamo Kyiv Gazette
Match14 Dec 2028
Mykola Shaparenko lights up a European night for Dynamo Kyiv
1‑0 against Nacional, and a performance that will be described to people who were not there for the rest of the season. Mykola Shaparenko was at the centre of the description.
Player ratings18 Dec 2028
Samba Diallo was unplayable
Successful dribbles: 27. He went past people as if he had been told there was a prize for it, and by the end the full-back had stopped pretending to try.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Volodymyr Shepeliev: that is not what I was promised
“Things were said to me before I signed. I am not going to repeat them, but I remember all of them.” Dynamo Kyiv have not answered, which is an answer of sorts.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Words exchanged at Dynamo Kyiv
Oleksandr Tymchyk and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Match17 Dec 2028
Still nobody has beaten Dynamo Kyiv
The unbeaten run reaches 7. Some of them were wins and some were escapes, but a side that refuses to lose is a side other dressing rooms talk about.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Valentyn Rubchynskyi falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Player ratings18 Dec 2028
Mykola Shaparenko was on a different afternoon to everybody else
8.14. There are performances a supporter describes to somebody who was not there and cannot quite convey; this was one, and the number does not help either.
The dugout18 Dec 2028
Dynamo Kyiv pick somebody else ahead of Mykola Shaparenko
There is no complaint available here and everybody involved knows it, which does not make the walk to the bench any shorter. Form is the only currency in football that cannot be borrowed against.
Squad18 Dec 2028
Jhon Figueroa wants to go home
“I have tried. I have really tried, and every day I wake up in the wrong place.” Nobody at Dynamo Kyiv can coach that out of a man, and nobody there is pretending to.
In brief
- Player ratings Nazar Voloshyn stands above it all
- The dugout Mykola Shaparenko has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Maksym Kryvtsov signs a new deal