FC Bucha Fortuna have thrashed Kolos of Kovalivka 4:0 in the fifth round of the Kyiv regional championship. The match was played in Kyiv, at the Skylark Arena, and we ran the live broadcast from it.

The goals came from Kristian Turku in the second minute, Vladyslav Horbachenko in the 48th, Vasyl Koropetskyi in the 53rd and Oleksandr Bondarenko in the 83rd. It was Turku’s first goal for Bucha, and Bondarenko scored after coming off the bench.

Three of the four goals came between the 48th and the 53rd minute — right after the interval.

Match replay

The full recording is below.

Match updates

Фінальний свисток. Full time. Bucha Fortuna beat Kolos 4:0 and climb the Kyiv regional table

82-га хвилина. 82nd minute. Oleksandr Bondarenko makes it 4:0, timed at 82:50. He came off the bench — he was not in the starting eleven

53-тя хвилина. 53rd minute. Vasyl Koropetskyi makes it 3:0, timed at 53:02 — the Fortuna captain adds a third five minutes after Horbachenko's goal

48th minute. Vladyslav Horbachenko doubles the lead — 2:0, timed at 48:57. Horbachenko also scored in the cup tie against Odesa’s To4ka, opening the first leg in the fifth minute

Другий тайм. Second half. The teams are back on the pitch

Перерва. Half-time. The first half is over. By the score we have, Bucha Fortuna lead 1:0 after Turku's second-minute goal

5-та хвилина. 5th minute. Bucha keep the ball and press on after their early goal

2-га хвилина. 2nd minute. Kristian Turku opens the scoring — Bucha Fortuna lead 1:0 within moments of kick-off. It is Turku’s first goal for Bucha

15:02. Fortuna lined up with Yoshchenko in goal — Soldat, Plastun, Kozishkurt, Turku, Koropetskyi, Makhynia, Terekhov, Hora, Horbachenko, Moroziuk

15:00. Kick-off. Bucha Fortuna and Kolos have started their fifth-round match

14:57. The teams have come out onto the pitch at the Skylark Arena — kick-off is minutes away

Bucha Fortuna starting eleven

12 Daniil Yoshchenko — 4 Ihor Soldat, 20 Volodymyr Plastun, 6 Kozishkurt, 77 Kristian Turku, 9 Vasyl Koropetskyi, 7 Mykyta Makhynia, 3 Artem Terekhov, 17 Bohdan Hora, 95 Vladyslav Horbachenko, 15 Oleksandr Moroziuk.

Head coach — Volodymyr Bondarenko.

The referee is Oleksandr Buchakov, assisted by Vladyslav Lukash and Nazar Tonkovyd.

Bucha Fortuna’s starting eleven before the fifth-round matchPhoto: FC Bucha Fortuna
Bucha Fortuna’s starting eleven before the fifth-round match

A home game away from home

Bucha are the nominal hosts but play in Kyiv, at the Skylark Arena. This round the Kyiv ground hosts three of the five regional fixtures — at 11:00, 15:00 and 17:00.

It is the second home game in a row away from Bucha: in round three the team hosted Denhoff at the Shkilnyi stadium in Mykhailivka-Rubezhivka.

Who the opponents are

Kovalivka is represented in the regional championship by the youth side of Kolos. Announcing a 12:0 win over Taihers in the same competition, the club itself called the team Kolos U-19. The club’s senior side plays a Premier League match in Kryvyi Rih on the same day.

Kolos sit sixth in the top division: four matches, four points, a goal difference of 13:10. That 12:0 win sits alongside a 0:7 defeat by Denhoff in the opening round.

How the team came into the game

Bucha Fortuna are fifth with six points from three matches and the best defence in the upper half of the table — 7:2. They beat Yuriv 4:1, lost 0:1 at home to Denhoff and won 3:0 against Sokil.

In the Ukrainian Amateur Cup the team cleared the preliminary round: they beat Odesa side To4ka 2:1 at home and then thrashed them 5:0 in Odesa.

The day before, the team held a morning pre-match training session and completed its preparation for the round.

Morning work before tomorrow’s game. We held a pre-match training session and completed our preparation for round five of the regional championship.

FC Bucha Fortuna

What the win gives them

Bucha Fortuna had six points from three matches before this round. Now they have nine from four, with a goal difference of 11:2.

What comes next

On 12 September Fortuna host FC Kalynivka, one of the two sides still unbeaten this season. On 16 and 23 September they face FC Rokyta of the Poltava region in the Cup round of 16.

As a reminder, the draw paired Bucha with Rokyta of the Poltava region.

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