Chornomorets played Obolon Kyiv in the seventh round of the Premier League, and the match ended 1-1 at the Chornomorets Stadium on 18 September. Popov opened the scoring from the penalty spot in the thirty-seventh minute, and Fedorivsky rescued a point for the visitors with a late strike in the ninety-second minute of added time.
By then the game had already taken on a rougher character. Kogut picked up a booking in the sixteenth minute, and Moroz followed in the twenty-second—minute twenty, and you could feel the tension building. Popov's penalty came with two substitutions for Chornomorets in the same minute, and Moroz himself was withdrawn shortly after in the forty-second.
And here's the thing about the second half: Obolon kept their side in it despite having zero shots on target. Sukhanov, Chekh, and Mba all went off the side for yellow cards, with Mba replaced in the sixtieth alongside Chekh and Slobodyan. The visitors were not without their own incidents—Prokopchuk, Kulakovskyi, Pushkaryov, and Kurko all received bookings, with Matkevych completing the quartet in the eightieth-eighth minute.
To be fair, the statistics tell you something about a match that didn't really need telling. Chornomorets had 52 per cent possession and ninety-nine attacks against Obolon's eighty-eight, but the telling figure is the shots: two on target for the hosts, zero for the visitors, and yet both sides found the net. Six corners to four, and twelve yellow cards between them.
The result leaves Chornomorets in thirteenth place with four points from five games—one win, one draw, three defeats—and Obolon sitting fourteenth with three points from six fixtures, having managed three draws and three losses. Neither side has much to celebrate, and by then the weather had turned, as it always does in September, and the wind ruined any passing game that might have emerged.
