There was nothing to separate Nyva Ternopil and Agroprom Volochysk on Sunday in the First League. The match finished 0:0 after ninety minutes of work that rarely threatened to break open. It was the kind of afternoon where both sides seemed more interested in not losing than in finding a way forward.
A. Borovskyi picked up a yellow card in the forty-second minute, the only booking of the contest. After that, the game settled into a rhythm of cautious exchanges. Substitutions came at regular intervals, with K. Kvas among the first changes in the forty-sixth minute.
Agroprom had the better position in the table going into this fixture. They sat sixth on fourteen points after nine games, while Nyva were twelfth with ten. The visitors had won four, drawn twice and lost three, whereas their hosts had managed two victories and three defeats.
The statistics tell a story of pressure without penetration. Nyva recorded one hundred and ten attacks against one hundred for Agroprom, and won the corner count seven to four. Yet neither side could convert their dominance into goals. It was one of those games where possession and territory mean little without a final product.
Nyva will look back at their recent results with some satisfaction. They had beaten Viktoria Mykolaiv 3:1 and drawn with Metal Kherson before this afternoon. Agroprom, meanwhile, had lost heavily to Kulikov five days earlier and dropped points against Polissya II.
The draw leaves Agroprom still above their opponents but does not extend any advantage. Nyva remain in the lower half and will need something more than this to climb. By then, both managers will be assessing whether this was a missed opportunity or a sensible result.
