The teams will play the return match on August 1 in Poland.
Zhytomyr Polesie lost to Slovenian Olympia in the first match of the second round of the Conference League qualifying for the 2024/25 season. The match at the Stožice stadium in Ljubljana ended with the score 2:0 in favor of the home team.
The first half of the meeting passed without any goals scored. At the start of the second half, the Slovenian club took the lead – in the 56th minute, Austrian striker Raul Floruc scored after a pass from Dino Koic.
The Ukrainian team failed to equalize the score and avoid defeat. But “Olimpia” scored the second goal in stoppage time – in the 90th + 2nd minute the advantage of the Slovenian team was strengthened by the Portuguese midfielder Diogo Pinto.
Note that for “Polesie” this was the first European Cup match in history. Last season, the Zhytomyr club took fifth place in the UPL, while Olimpia won bronze medals in the Slovenian championship.
Review of the match “Olympia” – “Polesie”
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The return match, which will nominally be home for “Polesie” , will take place on Thursday, August 1, in the Polish city of Gliwice. Starts at 19:00 Kyiv time.
The winner of the Olimpia – Polissya pair in the third round of the Conference League selection will play against the loser in the Sheriff (Moldova) – Elfsborg pair (Sweden).
It was previously reported that UEFA excluded Dnepr-1 from the European Cup. In the second round of the Conference League qualification, the Dnieper team were supposed to play with the Hungarian Puskás Academy, but received technical defeats (twice 0:3) in both matches after the club was expelled from the club due to financial problems. composition of the UPL participants.
We would like to remind you that on July 23, the new European season started with Dynamo Kiev, which in the first match of the second round of Champions League qualifying destroyed Serbian “Partizan” with a score of 6:2 .