Polissya beat Kudrovka 5-1 in the Premier League's fifth round of the regular season on Thursday evening. The hosts opened the scoring with just one minute on the clock, and by then the visitors were already scrambling to find their footing. Vladyslav Veleten's strike set the tone for what followed.
Bohdan Veklyak saw red in the eleventh minute, and the game shifted after that. Kudrovka went into the break trailing 2-1, with Artem Dumanayuk's own goal adding to the hosts' advantage. The visitors were reduced to ten men and couldn't recover their shape.
The second half was a procession. Igor Krasnopir scored twice, one from the penalty spot in the seventy-first minute, and Leandro Andrade added a fourth goal in the eighty-seventh. Four substitutions came in the sixty-seventh minute for Polissya, a tactical switch that kept the pressure on.
Polissya dominated the numbers too. They had 111 attacks against 60, and their shots on target came eight to two. The visitors managed zero shots off target all evening, and their only corners were none. By then, the result was never in doubt.
The win moves Polissya further clear in the standings. They sit second with nine points from four games, three wins and one loss. Kudrovka remain at the foot of the table in fifteenth place with just two points from four matches, and they have lost two of their last four.