The Referees Committee of the Ukrainian Association of Football has appointed the officials for Matchday 19 of the VBET Ukrainian Premier League in which Dynamo Kyiv will play away against Polissya Zhytomyr.
The match will be officiated by Mykola Balakin, a representative of the Kyiv region. This season he has already refereed two matches involving “White-Blues”: on Matchday 10 Dynamo defeated Kryvbas 4:0 at home and on Matchday 12 Dynamo narrowly lost to LNZ 0:1 at home.
Last season Balakin officiated four Dynamo matches. Under his supervision Dynamo defeated Kryvbas at home (2:1) and away (2:0), drew 1:1 with Shakhtar in the league and lost to “Miners” on penalties in the Ukrainian Cup final (1:1 in regular time).
Match Officials
Referee: Mykola Balakin (Kyiv region)
Assistant Referees: O. Berkut (Sumy), V. Matiash (Donetsk)
Fourth Official: M. Firsov (Rivne)
Referee Observer: O. Kran (Kharkiv)
VAR Referee: D. Shurman (Kyiv region)
Assistant VAR: S. Shlonchak (Cherkasy)
VAR Observer: Y. Moseichuk (Chernivtsi)
The match Polissya vs Dynamo will take place in Zhytomyr at the Central Stadium on Sunday, March 8, kick-off at 18:00.
