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Manchester United head coach Erik ten Hag does not believe that the Red Devils' non-participation in the Champions League next season will negatively affect their ability to acquire new players.

"Of course, there is a desire to play at the highest level, but if you want to be part of a project like Manchester United, I am sure that Manchester United is an attractive club for every player," ten Hag was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail.

Having won a ticket to the UPL, Lviv's Karpaty plan to work actively not only in the football selection area. It is likely that there will be reshuffles in the club's management.

According to Sport.UA, after the end of the first league season, the Lviv club may announce the transfer of well-known football officials to work for Karpaty. We are talking about the general director of Dnipro-1 Andriy Rusol, who will take a similar position at the Lviv club.

The former sporting director of Oleksandriya Oleksandr Markov, who left the Oleksandriya club after the scandal involving the participation of unannounced Ivan Kalyuzhny in the game against Shakhtar, is also applying for the position of sporting director of Karpaty.

According to reports, a new head of the selection service is also due to join Karpaty. The Lviv club wants to entrust this area to Artem Zasyadvovko, who was brought up as a footballer at Dynamo Kyiv, then worked at Sevastopol, Munich 1860, the analytical company Wyscout and Kolos Kovaliv.

According to the Football from a Helicopter Telegram channel, Shakhtar Donetsk may return to the Ukrainian capital for the next season.

"There are active rumours that there is a reason why Shakhtar and Chornomorets played their matches at the Left Bank Stadium. They say that the Donetsk club is looking very closely at the arena in Kyiv's Osokorky neighbourhood in terms of hosting UPL matches for the next season, and that the Donetsk team has even made a deal with Lavrenko. For this reason, other tenants of the facility, in particular, Metalist 1925 and Zorya, will be forced to look for other arenas for their home matches," the source writes.

Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Bohdan Redushko told Team1 about the preparations of the Ukrainian U-17 national team for Euro 2024 in Cyprus.

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Marino Pushic, Shakhtar's head coach, likes the VAR system very much, as he said at a press conference after the last Ukrainian league match.

- "VAR is very good. We all strive for more clarity and honesty in football, but technology is not the only solution. I think it's good that there is VAR, but if you have VAR, the decision is still made by a human being. It is an interpretation of the situation, so the result is not always perfect, I understand that. Sometimes I don't quite agree with this interpretation either, but I think it's very good to have VAR, the system helps to re-watch episodes in any case. But again, this is the referee's version, only now they can really see the details in slow motion.

But I have to say something about the VAR: it would be more useful if the VAR had someone who really understands the situation on the pitch, because if you stop the VAR at some point, the episode can look terrible, but if you really understand the situation, you watch it again, you see that there is not such a big problem. I think it's a useful system, it's an interpretation, and I hope that in the future it will be clearer and better. That's why I have a good attitude towards the HAC.

And I would also like to have a goal scoring system, if possible, to see if the ball went over the line, if there was a goal, etc. I think all these things help football to be a transparent game. And I'll tell you one thing I wanted to have is absolutely clear game time, so that there are no more delays, no more stalling, no more long waits. No, one hundred percent clear playing time - 45 or 40 minutes, it doesn't matter, it would also help football a lot. So, I hope this will be the next step for football in the future," Pushich was quoted as saying by the official website of Donetsk.

Fans of Arsenal London criticised the team's Ukrainian defender Oleksandr Zinchenko after the team's victory over Everton in the final round of the English Championship. Zinchenko appeared on the pitch for the Londoners in the 60th minute due to Gabriel's injury, making his first appearance in four matches.

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Rukh forward Ilya Kvasnytsia commented on the victory over Chornomorets. The forward expects that the match of the 30th round of the Ukrainian championship against Dynamo will also be a battle.

"We pay a lot of attention to standards during the training process and we managed to repeat it in the game. "Chornomorets is a difficult opponent, because they play a lot of head-to-head. In the first half, we managed to seize the initiative and take the lead, and if we had also converted the penalty, we would have played even more confidently. In the second half, after we scored again, we played well to hold on and won.

Of course, we were thinking about the match between Polissia and Metalist 1925 and were waiting for the result of this match. It's good for us that Zhytomyr lost points. Rukh has a match against Dynamo ahead of them and it will be a tough game. We need to give our best in this match, because it is the final match of the season and we are determined to get a positive result for us," Kvasnytsia said.

Italian coach Roberto De Dzerby, who left Brighton after the end of the current season in the championship of England, may become the new coach of Juventus. This is reported by The Independent.

According to the source, now the management of Juventus is studying the option of inviting De Dzerby after the dismissal of Massimiliano Allegri from the post of coach of the Turin club. Nothing is yet known about the specific negotiations between the parties.

We shall remind you that De Dzerby worked in Ukraine at Shakhtar before moving to England.

Rukh midfielder Talles Brenner shared his expectations for the match on Matchday 30 against Dynamo.

"We want to get into the European Cups, and each of us was seriously preparing for the match against Chornomorets. "Rukh played a quality match and got the necessary victory. Now the team will prepare for a tough match against Dynamo - we are focused on our game and want to get a positive result," said Brenner.

Girona head coach Girona head coach Michel Sanchez believes that it will be difficult for the team's forward Artem Dovbyk to win the Spanish league's top scorer trophy in the last round of La Liga.

"Sorlot scored four goals. When I was replacing Dovbyk, I told him that I wanted to bring Stuani out after his injury and recovery, because he had been working on it. He had to go through it, and I explained the situation to him.
Dovbyk will play in the match against Granada. We'll see if he has a chance to become the top scorer, but it will be difficult," Marca quoted Michel Sanchez as saying.

It will be recalled that Villarreal forward Sorlot is 2 goals ahead of Dovbyk in the La Liga scoring race.

Today, on 20 May, the U-17 national team of Ukraine (players not older than 2007) will play their first match at the European Championship. The match against Serbia will start at 18:00.

In the group stage of the tournament, the blue and yellows will play Serbia, the Czech Republic and Cyprus in Group A. The forum itself, with the participation of 16 national teams, will take place from 20 May to 5 June in Cyprus - at six stadiums in Ahna, Larnaca, Paralimni and Limassol.

The Ukrainian team began direct preparations for the championship on the island on 12 May.

"Unfortunately, there are some losses," said Yuriy Moroz, head coach of the Ukraine U-17 team, "but this does not apply to the legionnaires. Due to injury, Dynamo Kyiv midfielder Volodymyr Ozymai, on whom we were counting heavily, could not come. Otherwise, I believe that today this is the optimal composition of the current national team of Ukraine.

I won't be specific, but I can say for sure that, studying the opponents, I concluded that each of the teams in our group can present a surprise. The matches themselves will show who will be the best. Each of the opponents has about the same chances of success. The Ukrainian national team must be ready to show its best in every game, this is the only way we can achieve the best results.

The final part of the Euro is different from the qualifying or elite round, psychological stability is very important here, there must be a good functional state, and I'm not talking about the team's desire and attitude. In such tournaments, every game is crucial. I would really like the guys to be imbued with our ideas and give at least a little joy to the Ukrainian people in such a difficult time."

It will be recalled that in October 2023, Ukrainian boys born in 2007 under the leadership of Volodymyr Yezersky successfully completed the first stage of the selection (Germany - 0: 1, Finland - 2: 2, Liechtenstein - 7: 0), despite the lack of time for quality training. And in early March, under the leadership of Yuriy Moroz, the elite qualifying rounds were held in one breath (Greece - 2: 0, Switzerland - 3: 0, Slovakia - 3: 0).

In addition, in April, our team held a short-term training camp, during which they played two away sparring matches with their peers from Cyprus (2: 0, 1: 2).

Karpaty head coach Myron Markevych commented on his team's 3-3 draw against Left Bank. The Lviv club, leading 3-0, managed to concede three times in 15 minutes.

"You just have to survive such a match. Any match is information. It is clear that we have already decided on those players who will leave Karpaty in the summer. Now the main issue is the team's equipment. After all, the UPL requires a different level of players. The backbone of the players will remain, but we need to strengthen quite seriously.

As for the game, I didn't see any problems after the first 30 minutes. Later, our goalkeeper fell asleep, the defenders started making mistakes. The players' individual mistakes led to this result. There were a lot of mistakes in the defence, and experienced players made them. We need to strengthen all positions. We need to work in this regard.

The opponent felt their moment, we were knocked out, and LB took advantage of it. Our fans were on top of their game today, and I am grateful to them for that. We have fulfilled the main task - we have reached the UPL. Now we need to think about the next season. The final game against Ingulets will decide the fate of the first place. We will prepare for this match carefully," Markevich said.