The Shakhtar does the duties in front of the Amberes and is still in career to the eighth (1-0)

The Shakhtar Donetsk kept alive his aspirations to advance to the eighth of final of the UEFA Champions League. The cast of Darijo Srna attained to obtain a positive result in Hamburg against the Amberes, imposing by a narrow marker of 1-0 with the goal of Mykola Matviyenko in the minute 13, consolidating his position in the third place of the Group H.

Matviyenko Was the hero of the day

So prompt like the referee gave start to the party, the balloon began to film in Germany and quickly generated opportunities of danger in favour of the 'Mining'. Newerton, to the 2', attained to upset the portico of the Belgian with a finish that it brushed the crossbar. Minutes afterwards, the Amberes answered with a counterattack that, to the 7', required the intervention of the guardameta Dmytro Ryznyk.

In the exchange of 'hits', finally arose a winner when, in the minute 13, the defender Mykola Matviyenko, after a big assistance of Oleksandr Zubkov, the one who sent a centre from the left, attained to connect a head butt imparable for the goalkeeper Jean Butez. This, to his time, encouraged to the Amberes, that dumped in search of the tie, enjoying of several opportunities through Michel-Ange Balikwisha and Vincent Janssen, while the Shakhtar resisted and, at the end of the first-half, only attained to upset to the Belgian with a head butt of Sudakov.

🚨GOAL | Shakhtar 1-0 Antwerp | Mykola Matviyenko

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From the second time, both teams went out to the field to rid a true battle, treating to deploy an offensive football, with the Shakhtar standing out slightly when crashing two shots in the crossbar in less than five minutes, although without causing a significant damage. Both teams struggled by the control of the balloon and, to the end of the party, resorted to a game more rudo, what resulted in more interruptions and left the denouement of the open party for any one of the two squares.

How it remained the group H after the victory of the Shakhtar?

This clash has given more emotion to the Group H, since after the victory of the Barça in front of the Port wine (2-1), that already has classified for the following phase, the fight by the second place to advance to eighth will resolve between the 'Mining' and the 'Dragons', both empatados in points but with difference goleadora in favour of the Portuguese (+5) on the Ukrainians (0).

On the other hand, the FC Barcelona, leader with 12 points, will have to visit to the Amberes in the next day, that, after this defeat in front of the Shakhtar, follows without adding points in the contest and already has cut all opportunity to be able to follow contesting European competition in this season. Nevertheless, the Belgian still could generate problems to the combined Barcelona.

They could the 'Mining' snatch him the leadership of the group to the Barça?

In this sense, a victory of the Amberes, together with a triumph of the 'Mining' on the Port wine, still could remove him the first place of the group to the Barça. Nevertheless, this change in the position only would be possible in a stage quite rocambolesco, since in case that so much the 'Moles' as the Barcelona finish with 12 points, the criterion of tiebreaker would be the difference of goals, in which the FC Barcelona surpasses to the Shakhtar by seven so many.

Under this premise, the Catalan cast would have to lose in front of the Belgian by a difference of more than seven goals and without marking they, or, in his defect, the Ukrainians would have to win by a greater difference to the seven annotations and without receiving goals against or any another combination that destroy this big difference of seven targets, something that, in principle, seems an extremely difficult situation, by not saying impossible, that occur.