Oleksandr Shovkovskiy's team lost their fifth match in a row in the Europa League.
Kiev Dynamo" suffered a defeat to Viktoria" Plzen in the match of the fifth round of the main stage of the Europa League season 2024/25. The match, nominally home for the “white-blues”, at the Volksparkstadion arena in Hamburg, Germany, ended with a score of 1:2.
The first half of the match passed without any goals. At the start of the second half, Oleksandr Shovkovskiy's team were very close to opening the scoring – Konstantin Vicharenko scored after a pass from Oleksandr Karavaev from the right flank, but after reviewing the video replay (VAR), the goal was cancelled due to offside.
The Czech club responded immediately. In the 55th minute, Matej Vydra accurately sent the ball low from the penalty area into the far corner.
In the last minute of regular time, Viktoria finally removed the question of the winner of the match. Pavel Schulz accurately shot from the penalty area into the left corner of Heorhiy Bushchan's goal.
In stoppage time, in the 90+5th minute, the “white-blues” reduced the gap – Vladislav Kabaev from the left flank curled the ball straight into the far “nine”. This is Dynamo's first goal in the current Europa League. The final whistle sounded immediately after.
Review of the match “Dynamo” – “Viktoria” Plzen
For Shovkovsky's team, this is the fifth defeat in a row in the main round of the Europa League. Earlier, Dynamo suffered a crushing defeat to Lazio (0:3), lost to Hoffenheim (0:2), suffered a defeat to Roma (0:1) and suffered a crushing defeat to Ferencvaros (0:4).
After five rounds, Dynamo occupies the last, 36th place in the overall standings of the main round of the Europa League, without scoring a single point.
Recall that in the updated format of the Europa League, 36 clubs play in a single league, where they will play against eight different opponents (four matches at home and four away). All tournament participants received 2 opponents from 4 different baskets.
The eight best teams of the main stage of the Europa League will get into the 1/8 finals. The clubs that take places from 9th to 24th in the overall standings will play paired play-off matches for reaching the 1/8 finals. The rest will finish their performance in European competitions.